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margin not or scarcely extending beyond the apices of the eyes, 

 six-carinate, the two central carinations straighter than those of 

 A. dignatus, lateral margins rounded and finely crenulate ; 

 scutellum a little broader than in A. dignatus ; membrane in $ 

 not quite reaching the abdominal apex. 



Length $ 5| millirn. 



Hah. W. Bengal ; Paresnath, 4000 to 4400 feet (Annandale, 

 Indian Mus.}. 



MEZIRA to replace Brachyrhynchus. (Vol. II, p. 159.) 



Mr. C. 0. Waterhouse in bis " Index Zoologicus " has shown 

 that Brftchyrynchus was used as a generic term by Selys-Long- 

 champs in 1831 (Aves) "in Van der Mallen, Diet. Geogr. Liege, 

 1831, App. p. 36." Bergroth following this up, writes (Canad. 

 Entomol. 1906, p. 202) : " The genus Brachyrrhynchus, Lap. must 

 bear the younger name Mezira, Amy. & Serv., the first name 

 being preoccupied. Bergroth, however, has miscopied Laporte's 

 generic name which is BrachyrJiyncJius, and he has not mentioned 

 that the Avian name is Bracliyrynclius, though we must all agree 

 that these terms are practically synonymous, and that Mezira 

 should be substituted. 



2903. Mezira tenuicornis, Dint. A. M. N. H. (8) iii. p. 497 (1909). 



Fuscous; antennae, spinous antenniferous tubercles, posterior 

 pronotal lobe and lateral margins of the anterior lobe, corium, 

 connexivum, body beneath, and legs more fuscous brown ; mem- 

 brane greyish with dark veins, the lateral basal angles ochraceous ; 



Fig. 69. Mezira tenuicornis. 



antennae with the first, second, and fourth joints incrassate, third 

 joint slender and much the longer ; head granulose, spines in front 

 of eyes long, acute, behind eyes tumid and distinctly laterallv 



