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APPENDIX. HTDEOMETRID^E. 



Genus EURATAS. 

 Euratas, Dist. A. M. N. H. (8) v, p. 146 (1910). 



Type, E. formidabilis, Dist. 



Distribution. Andaman Sea. 



Head large, somewhat flattened, apically subangulately produced 

 and also angularly produced above the insertion of the antennae ; 

 eyes somewhat flattened, rounded interiorly, a little posteriorly 

 produced over the anterior margins of the pronotum ; antennae 

 with the first joint longest, as long as the anterior femora, second 

 not half as long as first, third shortest, a little shorter than fourth ; 

 rostrum not passing the anterior coxae ; pronotum slightly shorter 

 than head, anterior and posterior margins sinuate, the lateral 

 margins rounded, two distinct foveate impressions on disk which 

 are anteriorly margined with a carinate line ; mesonotum about 

 twice the length of pronotum ; anterior femora in male strongly 

 incrassated, anterior tibiae with a long robust spine before middle ; 

 anterior femora in female only moderately thickened, the anterior 

 tibiae unarmed; intermediate legs pilose; intermediate femora 

 considerably longer than the posterior femora. 



Allied to the genus JEfermatobates, Carp. 



2928. Euratas formidabilis, Dist. A. M. N. H. (8) v,p. 147 (1910). 



Fig. 82. Euratas formidabilis, tf. 

 Body above bluish, more or less finely greyishly pilose ; antennae 



