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spined ; pronotum granulose, the anterior area sculptured, the 

 anterior angles broadly, somewhat roundly, subangularly produced, 

 the lateral margins sinuated before middle and roundly ampliated 

 towards base ; scutellum granulose and subrugulose ; corium 

 granulose, the apical margins strongly sinuate, the lateral margins 

 near base distinctly ampliated ; membrane not quite reaching 

 posterior margin of penultimate abdominal segment : abdomen 

 above granulose ; rostrum scarcely passing base of head. 



Length 7-8 inillirn. 



Hab. Simla Hills ; Matiana, 8000 ft. (Annandale). 



Near M. tenericornis, Bergr. (vol. ii, p. 162). 



Under bark of fir (Annandale). 



Braclirhynclms feanus (vol. ii, p. 160), B. membranaceus (vol. ii, 

 p. J60), B. triangulus (vol. ii, p. 161), B. lateralis (vol. ii, p. 161), 

 B. tagalicus (vol. ii, p. 162), B. tenericornis (Vol. ii, p. 162), and 

 B. undulatus (vol. ii, p. 162) must now stand under the revised 

 generic name Mezira. 



Genus ANEURUS. (Vol. II, p. 166.) 

 2904. Aneurus greeni, Dist. Entomologist, xxxviii, p. 194 (1905). 



Head, pronotum, scutellum and sternum black ; abdomen, apex 

 of head, coxae, and apices of tibiae piceous brown ; tarsi ochraceous ; 

 corium stramineous, its base black, its apex and longitudinal veins 

 very dark fuscous ; membrane pale hyaline and reflecting the pale 

 brown disk of the abdomen above; head finely punctate, most 

 strongly so behind eyes, distinctly longitudinally sulcate on each 

 side of the median lobe ; antennae with the basal joint very 

 strongly incrassate, second joint longer than third, fourth longest; 

 pronotum with a broad central transverse depression, the anterior 

 angles prominently rounded, the lateral margins moderately con- 

 cavely sinuate, the posterior angles broadly rounded, a little 

 prominent, centrally very finely transversely striate, obscurely 

 punctate, most distinctly so on lateral areas and at anterior and 

 posterior angles ; scutellum very finely and thickly granulate, 

 about as broad as long, its margins very obscurelj piceous brown. 



Length 4-5 millim. 



Hob. Ceylon ; Pundaluoya (Green). 



Differing from the Burmese A. indicus, Bergr., by the absence of 

 the central carination to the scutellum, the more rounded and less 

 prominent posterior pronotal angles, the more strongly incrassited 

 basal joint of the antennae, the stramineous corium, &c, 



