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elongate and slightly excavate ; hemelytra almost reaching 

 abdominal apex : a curved upwardly directed slender process on 

 each side of the sternum between the intermediate and posterior 

 COXSB; legs long and slender, the apical areas of the femora 

 moderately thickened. 



Allied to the two preceding genera Taprobanus and Iterduca, 

 but differing principally by the long pronotum and the strongly 

 produced anterior collar to the same. In the above diagnosis 1 

 have taken the characters from the following Oriental species, 

 in which the apical areas of the femora are much less incrassated 

 than in the type of the genus. 



3757. Megalomerium pertenerum, Bredd. (Megalomerium?)Z)eM^r/t. 

 Ent. Zeitschr. 1907, p. 37. 



Pale ochraceous, the head and long anterior collar to the 

 pronotum a little darker ochraceous ; antenna? pale ochraceous,. 

 the apical joint black with its apex greyish-white ; pronotum 



Fig. 82. Megalomcrium pertenerum. 



(excluding collar) thickly punctate, the central longitudinal 

 cari nation and the basal margin impunctate, just before basal 

 margin obliquely depressed ; ciavus obscurely punctate ; apical 

 areas of the femora and tarsi a little darker. 



Length, c?5, $ 7 millim. 



Hub. Ceylon ; Negombo (fide Breddin). South India ; 

 Kodaikanal, Chikkaballapura, and Nilgiri Hills (T. V. Campbell). 

 Simla (N. Annandale). 



From the Palaearctic species M. meridionale, Costa, this species 

 differs strongly in the much less incrassated apices of the 

 femora. 



