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HALTICINiE. 



Stkkim : Mungphu (Atkinson). Assam: Khasi Hills, Nongpoh, 

 vii. 1907 ( D. Nowrojee, Pusa Coll.). Burma : Momeik (Doherty); 

 Bhamo (Fea). Tenassekim : Thagata. Tonkin : Hoabinh, viii. 

 1918 (R. Vitalis de Salvaza). The type-locality is Java, and the 

 species has evidently a wide distribution. 



Type of P. impressicollis in Sturm's Collection ; the location of 

 that of affinis is unknown to me. 



Genus OPHRIDA, Chapuis. 



Ophrida, Chapuis, Gen. Col. xi, 1875, p. 81. 



Genotype, Ophrida guttata, Chap. (Malacca). 



The difference between this genus and Podontia lies in (1) the 

 somewhat smaller size of the insects belonging to the former, 

 (2) the surface of the pronotum being much smoother in Ophrida, 

 and (3) the structure of the prosternum, which in Podontia is 

 triangularly cut or depressed at the hind end, so that the ineso- 

 sternum in repose fits into it, while in Ophrida this end of the 

 prosternum is truncate, the ed^e being straight (see fig. 82). 



Fig. 82. — Part of the underside of (on the left) Podontia sp. and (on the right) 

 Ophrida sp., showing parts of the pro-, rneso- and metasterna and 

 the bases of the first two pairs of legs : a, intercoxal process of 

 prosternum ; b, mesosternum. 



Body in many species somewhat narrowed behind. Head 

 broad, fitting into the emargination of the front margin of the 

 pronotum, somewhat convex between the eyes ; the frontal eleva- 

 tions are obsolete, and generally there is a narrow impression 

 round the base of either antenna; eyes moderately convex, more 

 or less oval. Antennae short, extending very little beyond the 

 humerus ; the three basal segments shining, the rest pubescent ; 

 first segment the longest and club-shaped, second small, always 

 much shorter than third, the following segments more or less 

 nearly equal to each other and cylindrical. Proihorax much 



