PIIASMID.E. LONCHODES. 



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to the base, its sides being produced into two long narrow 

 and deflexed processes incurved at the tips, armed within 

 with a number of minute points, and having a longitudinal 

 impression on the outside. The anal styles are slender, 

 short, obtuse and deflexed. The three terminal ventral 

 segments are moderately swollen. The legs are of mode- 

 rate length ; the four hind femora are considerably thick- 

 ened, and armed near the tips beneath with two spines ; the 

 fore femora are thinner and the spines smaller ; the basal 

 joint of the tarsi is about half their entire length. 



Plate XXIII. Fig. 1. The male, of the natural size. la. 

 The terminal segments of the abdomen seen laterally. 



12. (110.) Louchodes Praon, Westvo. 

 Plate VI. fig. 3. 



Gracilis, subcylindricus, parce granulosus, rufo-fuscus ; 

 abdominis apice luteo, segmentis apice pallidius annulatis ; 

 capite spinis duabus inter oculos tuberculisque 4 in parte 

 postica ; pedibus fulvis, femoribus basi obscurioribus ; seg- 

 mento ultimo abdominis clongato, attenuato, fisso (mas). 



Long. corp. unc. 3£ ; anten. unc. 3J ; proth. lin. \\ ; 

 mesoth. lin. 8J ; metath. lin. 6 ; abdom. lin. 13+lin. 4= 

 lin. 17. 



Hab. In Ceylon. B.M. 



Long, slender and cylindrical, sparingly granulated, red- 

 brown ; the hind part of the abdomen luteous, the extremity 

 of the abdominal segments paler ; legs fulvous, the femora 

 red-brown at the base, the tips and the base of the tibiae 

 slightly darker. Head with two small erect spines between 

 the eyes, and four small tubercles in a transverse row on the 

 hind margin of the head ; the antennae are very long and 

 slender. The meso- and metathorax on the upper surface 

 and sides have a few small granules ; the segments of the 

 abdomen are slightly widened at the articulations; the 

 seventh segment is short, but gradually dilated, its extre- 

 mity being constricted ; the eighth is still gradually more 

 dilated, its extremity also constricted ; and the ninth seg- 

 ment is nearly as long as the two preceding together, and 

 much narrower, gradually attenuated to the tip, which is 

 deeply cleft, with the two very short anal styles concealed 

 beneath ; the three terminal ventral segments are very 

 short ; the ninth much swollen near the base, and not ex- 

 tending beyond the extremity of the eighth dorsal segment. 

 The legs are long and slender, fulvous, with the base of the 

 femora reddish-brown ; the extremity of the femora and 

 base of the tibiae slightly darker. 



Plate VI. Fig. 3. The male, of the natural size. 3 a. The 

 head seen sideways. 3 b. The terminal segments of the ab- 

 domen seen sideways. 3 c. The same seen from beneath. 



13. (111.) Lonchodes Taproban.se, Westw. 

 Plate XXIV. fig. 12, male. Plate VI. fig. 6, female. 



Elongatus, subgracilis, subcylindricus, undique granu- 

 lans ; capite inter oculos foliolis duobus apice rotundatis 

 instructo, segmentis abdominis apice latioribus ; tibiis an- 

 ticis apice tarsisque anticis articulo basali angulato-dila- 

 tatis ; pedibus intermediis brevioribus, femoribus crassis, 

 ante medium tuberculo magno tumido alteroque minori 

 ante apicem instructis (feem.). Mas multo gracilior, sub- 

 filiformis. 



Long. corp. maris unc. 3f ; cap. lin. 2 ; mesoth. lin. 12 ; 

 metath. lin. 9 ; abdom. lin. 16 + lin. 5=lin. 21. 



Long. corp. fcem. unc. 5j ; anten. unc. 3 ; proth. lin. 2-J ; 

 mesoth. lin. 141 . metath. lin. 1 1 ; abdom. lin. 29 + lin. 16 

 =lin. 35. 



Hab. In Ceylon. B.M. &c. 



Entirely of an obscure and opake greenish-brown, and 

 covered, both above and below, with minute granules ; the 

 abdominal segments beneath having numerous minute 

 white tubercles. The head is furnished between the eyes 

 in the male with two erect spines, and in the female with 

 two foliaceous tubercles, thin, and rounded at the top ; 

 the antennae are nearly equal to the fore legs in length. 

 The mesothorax in the female is considerably narrowed in 

 its anterior half. The metathorax is slightly dilated both 

 at the base and extremity, the middle having the sides 

 nearly parallel. The abdomen of the male is slender, with 

 the three terminal joints dilated, the last elongated and 

 deeply bifid ; that of the female has the two basal joints 

 short, the four following comparatively long, the three ter- 

 minal ones short, the ninth being pointed at the tip, with 

 the lateral posterior angles slightly prominent ; the first 

 to the seventh segment having the extremity of each 

 widened, so as to appear knotted. The operculum extends 

 nearly to the extremity of the ninth dorsal segment ; it is 

 angulated beyond the middle, and considerably rugose. 

 The fore legs of the male are long and slender, shorter in 

 the female, with the femora curved at the base, slightly 

 angulated within near the tip ; the tibiae are triangularly 

 dilated at the tip, and the basal joint of the tarsi is also 

 angularly elevated. The middle legs are the shortest and 

 thickest ; the femora with a large, irregular, swollen tu- 

 bercle at a short distance from the base, and a smaller one 

 beyond the middle ; the tibiae have a small dilatation within 

 near the base, and another before the middle on the out- 

 side. The hind pair of legs is rather slender and simple. 



Plate XXIV. Fig. 12. The male, of the natural size. 12 a. 

 The extremity of the abdomen seen sideways. 



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