PSEUDOPIOMEBA. 



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Genus PSEUDOPIOMERA. 

 Pseudopiomera, Jac. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, xxxii, 1892, p. 907. 



Type, P. pallidicornis, Jac., from India. 



Range. India ; Ceylon ; Burma. 



Subc-ylindrical, pubescent; eyes entire; antennae filiform, long, 

 third and fourth joints elongate. Thorax broader than long, 

 lateral margins obsolete anteriorly. Elytra closely punctate-striate, 

 clothed with scale-like pubescence. Legs elongate ; femora dentate, 

 posterior femora very strongly widened into a triangular tooth ; 

 intermediate tibiae emarginate at apex ; claws bifid. Prosternum 

 broadly subquadrate, its base truncate : anterior margin of thoracic 

 episternum concave. 



Differs from the allied genera in the very elongate third and 

 fourth joints of the antennae in connection with the strongly 

 dilated posterior femora. 



712. Pseudopiomera pallidicornis, Jac. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, xxxii, 



1892, p. 908. 



Obscure fulvous, clothed with yellowish pubescence. Head 

 closely pubescent ; clypeus transverse, fulvous, glabrous ; man- 

 dibles piceous ; palpi slender ; antennae pale fulvous, nearly 

 extending to apex of elytra, terminal joints slightly darker, shorter 

 and slightly thickened. Thorax nearly twice as broad as long. 



Fig. 140. Pseudopiomera pallidicornis. 



widened and rounded at the sides in the middle, a shallow trans- 

 verse sulcus near the anterior margin, lateral margins indicated 

 at base only ; surface clothed with adpressed yellowish hairs that 

 form an indistinct band at the sides. Scutellum subquadrate. 

 Elytra distinctly punctured in closely approximate rows ; pubescence 

 of mottled appearance, intermixed with erect short black hairs ; 



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