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nobis ; the thorax proportionally more elongate, more strongly 

 constricted at base, the elytra shorter and narrower. The trans- 

 verse white band on these sufficiently distinguishes this species. 

 This is one of M. Nietner's interesting discoveries at Colombo in 

 Ceylon." 



Genus MERIONCEDA. 



Merionoeda, Pascoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. (2) iv, p. 237 (1858) ; Lacord. 

 Gen. Coleopt. viii, p. 490 (1869). 



Type, M.puella, Pasc., a species from Celebes. 



Range. Indo-Malayan and African Regions. 



S . Head somewhat elongated behind the eyes ; eyes rather 

 large, deeply emarginate ; front strongly sloped, short, separated 

 from the clypeus by rather deep sutural lines. Antenna3 generally 

 shorter than the body ; the last six or seven joints more or less 

 dilated ; first joint curved, thickened towards apex, third and 

 fourth slender, subequal in length. Prothorax narrowed in front, 

 constricted near apex, more or less tuberculate at the sides and 

 also on the disc. Elytra subulate, shorter than the abdomen. 

 Front and middle legs rather short, the front pair the shorter, 

 their femora shortly pedunculate at base, moderately clavate at 

 the apex ; hind legs very long, their femora with a long basal 

 peduncle and a more or less abruptly formed, stout, oval club at 

 the apex ; the tibiae furnished with a long posterior spine and a 

 single spur at the apex, also with two rows of small spines or 

 teeth along the outer border. Front coxse rather strongly 

 exserted, angulated on the outer side, their acetabula closed 

 posteriorly. First and second abdominal segments long, the 

 others short. 



$ . Antennae relatively shorter and the hind legs shorter and 

 less strongly clavate than in the d 1 . First abdominal segment 

 equal in length to the rest of the abdomen, obtusely pointed in 

 front ; the second segment depressed in the middle, densely 

 fringed with hair posteriorly, third and fourth very short, 

 depressed. 



185. Merionceda indica, Hope (Molorchus), Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 28 

 (1832). 



2 . Black, with the abdomen and a ring on each of the hind 

 femora just before the apical club, testaceous yellow. Head with 

 a deep impression that separates the clypeus and front. Antennae 

 shorter than the body ; the outer joints very slightly dilated ; 

 third and fourth joints subequal, each a little shorter than the 

 first or fifth. Prothorax longer than broad, narrowed anteriorly, 

 deeply grooved near the apex ; the groove deflected back- 

 wards near the middle of the disc so as to form two sulcate 

 impressions separating a narrow median from two larger, obliquely 



