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HALTICINjE. 



apex ; shoulders strongly raised, with an acute and oblique longi- 

 tudinal ridge extending to the middle of the elytron. The 

 underside is sparingly hairy. 



In the male the tibiae and tarsi are more strongly dilated and 

 the elytral ridge is less prominent than in the other sex. 



Length, 3 mm.* 



Nilgiei Hills (Andrewes Coll.). 

 Type in the British Museum. 



Genus PENTAMESA, Harold. 



Pentamesa, Harold, Col. Heft, xv, 1876, p. 124. 



Genotype, Pentamesa duodecimmaculata, Harold. 



Body convex, subhemispherical. Bead broad ; eyes convex,, 

 prominent ; the surrounding area depressed, frontal tubercles 

 developed, interantennal space broad. Antennae extending to 

 about the middle of the elytra, third and fourth segments more 

 slender than the others. Prothoracc almost quadrate, without 

 any ante-basal furrow ; basal margin gently sinuate, with a 



Fig. 106. — Pentamesa duodec immaculate/ , Harold ; front leg of male 



central lobe. Scutellum small, narrow. Elytra hardly broader 

 at base than prothorax, confusedly punctate. Underside : pro- 

 sternal process broad, flat, truncate behind; anterior coxal 

 cavities open behind ; mesosternum pentagonal, emarginate 

 behind ; all the femora thickened, the posterior pair rather more 

 strongly incrassate ; tibia? short, broadened towards the apex, 

 bent and deeply sulcate on the outer side (the front pair also 

 broadly emarginate on the outer side near the apex), all armed 

 with a short spine at the apex ; claws appendieulate. 

 Range. India, Indo-China. 



