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MEMBRA GIDAE. 
propei' the scutellum, which all Merubracidse possess, is uncovered and easily seen. 
In numerous other genera the long dorsal process is too attenuated to conceal this 
part of the dorsum, and there are intermediate stages which leave us in uncertainty. 
Fairmaire states for the genus Hypsauchenia, “ Prothorax un peu moins long, 
que les elytres ; tres peu, mais visiblement echancree sur Pecusson. Elytres libre 
legbrement echancrees.” Nervures parallel with three basal (apical ?) and two 
discoidal areas. The sloping (?) of the pronotum and the tegmina is too indefinite to 
mark off a classificatory division, which some have grouped as a sub-family of Mem- 
bracidse. 
Hypsauchenia and Lycoderes may almost be regarded as the connecting links 
between the species of the Old and New Worlds, through the genus Sphongophorus. 
Hypsauchenia, like the last-named genus, has no suprahumeral processes, and 
the scutellum may be considered as concealed by the pronotum; the legs are 
not spatulate. 
The species are fairly numerous, and are widely spread both in Asia, Africa, and 
the Philippine Islands. 
HYPSAUCHENIA HARDWICKII, Kirby. 
(Plate XLYI. figs. 3, 3a, 3b.) 
Kirby, Mag. Nat. Hist. 1829, p. 20, fig. 56. Fairm. l.c. PI. III. fig. 21, PI. VII. fig. 8, 
p. 520. II. ballista, Germ. 
Concolorous brown ; procephalon furnished with a long curved and vertical horn, 
clavate and cleft at the summit into two leaves; inner edge serrated; pronotum free, 
and posteriorly produced into a rudder-like process extending towards, but much 
short of the tips of the tegmina; tegmina dark fuscous, with their apices long and 
pointed ; neuration obscure ; legs rather long and prismatic ; proboscis long. 
Size, 9x9 mm. 
Drawn from one of several examples taken in September by Dr. J. G. Pilcher. 
Sikkim, Himalayas, 4000 feet. 
All the above examples are larger than those recorded from Nepaul. 
HYPSAUCHENIA FLORALIS, var? 
Velvety brown, with yellow legs; the summit of the procephalie horn spreading 
into a floriated tuft like an architectural finial; the dorsal process expanded near the 
acute tip into a flat triangular blade. 
Size, 8x8 mm. 
Habit a t. —Pegu. 
