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HALTICINtE. 



tibiae longer than either the front or middle pairs ; first segment 

 of the posterior tarsi almost as long as the following segments 

 together ; claws minute, appendiculate. 

 Length, 3*5 mm. 



Bukma: Tenasserim (DoJierty). Assam : Patkai Hills ( Doherty). 

 Type in British Museum. Described from two examples. 



86. Hespera lomasa *, nom. nov. 



Allomorvha sericea, Jacoby, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, xxxii, 1892, 

 p. 934. 



Dark brown, entirely clothed with golden-yellow pubescence ; 

 the apical segments of the antennae and the apex of the posterior 

 femora piceous. 



Head pubescent like the rest of the body ; eyes large, convex ; 

 the frontal elevations absent, as is characteristic of tins genus. 

 Antennae slender, extending to nearly two-thirds the length of 

 the elytra ; first segment long and club-shaped, second small, 

 much shorter than first, third longer than second ; the remaining 



* Sanskrit, " hairy." Since the name sericea is preoccupied by Weise's 

 species (above, p. 139), lomasa is here proposed. 



Fig. 55. — Hespera lomasa, Maulik. 



