498 Mr. B. P. Uvarov—Records and 
rounded ; temporal foveolz developed, about as long as 
broad, more or less distinctly margined. Pronotum rather 
thick, rugulose ; median keel thick, but low, interrupted by 
at least one (the hind) transverse sulcus; prozona more than 
twice as long as metazona, the latter emarginate behind ; 
lateral keels very obtuse, reaching at least the first sulcus, 
but in some species extending to the third sulcus ; lateral 
lobes more or less polished in prozona, except the margins 
which are rugulose, and always rugulose in metazona; they 
are scarcely longer than high, rounded, with lower margin * 
sinuate. Prosternum armed with a short conical tubercle. 
Mesosternal lobes and their interspace quadrate in male, 
transverse in female. Metasternal lobes separated in both 
sexes, more widely in female. Meso- and metanotum about 
as thick as pronotum and distinctly thicker than abdominal 
segments; the whole abdomen more or less rugulose, with 
a low median carina running throughout. LElytra lateral, 
lanceolate, reaching the first abdominal segment. All 
femora short, thickened. Hind tibie rounded, gradually 
thickened apically ; armed with 9 outer and 9 inner spines, 
including the apical ones; spurs of tibiz unequal in length, 
the inner pair being distinctly longer than the outer one. 
d. Anal segment emarginate behind, with a pair of more 
or less prominent teeth. Supra-anal plate trapezoidal, with 
a median apical tooth, with lateral angles protruding or 
rounded ; sulcate basally. Cerci feebly compressed, longer 
than supra-anal plate, strongly narrowed posteriorly and 
very acutely pointed. Subgenital plate small, vertical, 
rounded. 
?. Anal segment with a median emargination, but with- 
out teeth. Supra-anal plate obtusely triangular, longer 
than its basal width, distinctly divided into two parts by a 
transverse sulcus ; surface more or less rugulose. V4lve of 
ovipositor moderately long; the upper pair shorter than the 
lower, which is dentate basally. 
Genotype: Paraconophyma polita, sp. n. 
. he nearest relative of this new genus is Conophyma, Zub., 
from which it differs by the presence of rudimentary elytra, 
larger eyes, narrower fastigium, the presence of fastigial 
foveole, less dilated pectus, etc. 
The Pusa collection contains three very distinct species of 
this genus, one of which is identical with Walker’s Caloptenus 
scaber ; Caloptenus nepalensis, Walk., also belongs to Para- 
conophyma, and neither of these species has anything to do 
with the genus Mesambria, Stal, in which Kirby included 
them (Syn. Cat. Orth. iii. p. 440; Fauna Brit. Ind., Acrid. 
p- 220). 
