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joints subequal in length, each a little longer than third ; pro- 

 notal collar broad, anterior pronotal lobe about one and a half 

 times as long as posterior lobe and very distinctly narrower ; 

 corium with the dark punctures in longitudinal series ; anterior 



Fig. 24. Pamera emersoni. 



femora finely but prominently spined beneath ; rostrum reaching 

 the anterior coxae. 



Length 5 millim. 



Hob. Ceylon ( Vienna Museum). 



In this enumeration to be placed after P. pallicornis (vol. ii, 

 p. 52). 



2826. Pamera mimula, Bredd. Deutsch. ent. Zeitschr. 1907, p. 206. 



" Allied to P. malaya, StSl. Brachypterous ; black almost 

 lustreless ; head large, and with the scarcely medium-sized eyes 

 broader than the pronotum at the shoulders, behind the eyes 

 suddenly and strongly narrowed; upperside with very fine and 

 close wrinkling, producing a silky sheen, underside of head dis- 

 tinctly convex longitudinally ; rostrum slightly passing middle of 

 mesosternum, first joint short, scarcely reaching posterior margins 

 of eyes, second, third, and fourth joints subequal in length ; 

 pronotum (proper) spherically arched above (projecting over the 

 process when seen from the side), not or only imperceptibly 

 narrower than the process in the shoulder-region, and (including 

 the collar) about twice as long ; the (transverse) rather broad 

 neck is divided off by a sunken line of punctures, and finely but 

 rather distinctly transversely punctate ; the diffusely punctured 

 ' processus pronoti ' rises slightly behind and has rounded shoulder 

 angles not laterally passing thetegmina ; scutellum punctate, with 

 a V-shaped impunctate elevation on the disk, extreme tip, like 



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