260 



[Marrh, 



keels ; side margins of ih^ pr on of um and anterior margin of the elytra 

 wide, with four rows of meshes, the circumference of the former broadly 

 rounded anteriorly. 



In structure, marking, colour, and size, this species is very like 

 M. ampHata, from which it differs in the following respects. The 

 antennae are perceptibly thicker, and much shorter, the spines on the 

 head [longer and sharper, the side margins of the pro7iotum more 

 rounded at the front, the curve being continued regularly to the hood 

 (in ampliata the margin projects anteriorly in an obtuse angle, and then 

 goes in an oblique straight line to the hood). 



Two specimens taken by Mr. Wollaston, but the place and date of 

 capture are not recorded. 



Section 9. — Capsina. 



Family 3.— Mieidje. 

 Genus 2a. — Teeatocoeis, Fieb. 

 Species 2. — Teeatocoeis Saundeesi, n. sp. 



Bright green, shining, sparingly clothed with short, sub-erect, 

 yellow hairs. 



^ , Bead — With a black central line extending throughout its entire length, widest 

 at the posterior margin ; round the insertion of the antennaa narrowly black. 

 Antennce, 1st joint green, clothed with short dark hairs ; base with a narrow black 

 ring, apex more or less pitchy-red ; 2nd brownish-pink, apex brown ; 3rd 

 and 4th pitchy-black. Eyes reddish-black. Rostrum greenish-yellow, apex 

 black. 



Thorax — Pronotum green, with a black central line extending throughout its entire 

 length ; at the anterior angles a short, somewhat oblique black streak reaching 

 to the callosities, the latter with a slight fovea near the centre ; collar and 

 posterior portion of the disc finely shagreened. ScutellHm green, with a more 

 or less distinct short black streak between the base and the transverse channel ; 

 at the basal angles a deep fovea. Elytra green, as long as the abdomen, finely 

 shagreened. Claws, inner margin very narrowly black. Membrane with 

 only one cell, pale fuscous with a purple iridescence. Cell green, almost 

 entirely subcoriaceous and finely shagreened; cell nerve green. Sternum 

 green. Prostemum, on the sides towards the front, with a short, cnneate, 

 black patch. Legs green, clothed with short, sub-depressed, dark hairs, 

 Thighs, at the apex, more or less inclined to reddish ; Ist and 2nd pairs, on the 

 underside, with a row of erect hairs. TibicB greenish or greenish-yellow, 

 thickly clothed with short, sub-depressed, brownish-yellow hairs ; 2nd and 3rd 

 pairs frequently inclined to brownish-pink or yellow at the apex. Tarsi 

 brownish -yellow, apex of 3rd joint black. Claws brown. 



Abdomen green underneath. 



