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AIEMBRACID^. 



viated, the posterior process centrally and laterally carinate, 

 apically recurved, impinging on tegmina and passing tlie posterior 

 angle of inner margin. 



Length 4 millim. 



Hah. Ceylon; Yatiyantota ((rreen). 



Genus MACH^ROTYPUS. 



Machaerotypits, Uhler, Froc. U.S. Kat. Mus. xix, p. 284 (1896) ; 

 Melich. Horn. Faun. Ceijlon, p. 124 (1903). 



Type, M. sellatiis, from Japan. 



Distribution. Oriental and Eastern Palsearctic Regions. 



Dr. Uhler does not appear to have described this genus beyond 

 the structural characters given in his description of the typical 

 species*. I therefore reproduce Melichar's description, which is 

 probably the valid one, and in that case M. incidtus, Melich. should 

 be the type of the genus. 



Similar to Gargara in so far as the pronotum is only provided 

 with a posterior process, which, however, is not broadly triangular 

 as in Oargara, but long, slender, prismatic and generally more or 

 less strongly wave-like, curved ; the lateral processes are absent ; 

 tegmina somewhat long, with four apical cells (in Gargara three); 

 eyes very prominent, the slender posterior process induces a 

 comparison with Maclmrota (Melichar). We do not quite under- 

 stand Dr. Melichar's enumeration of the tegfminal apical cells in 

 the above description. 



2209. Machaerotypus incultUS, Melich. Horn. Faun. Ceylon, p. 124 

 (1903). 



Head, pronotum and scutellum black ; body beneath black, the 

 legs testaceous ; tegmina bronzy subhyaline, the base, costal and 

 radial areas black ; pronotum somewhat coarsely punctate and 



Fig. 56. — Mach(srofy2ms incidtua. 



distinctly longitudinally carinate ; the posterior process slender, 

 centrally and laterally carinate, curved at base and remote from 



* Mr. Samuel Hensliaw in his referential Catalogue of the Hemiptera, 

 described by Uhler (Psyche, 1903), only quotes the above publication for 

 Macharoty^ma. 



