BUABESCUS. 



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neous spot ; body beneath and legs slraniineous, a black spot on 

 each side of prosternum ; anal appendage beneath, in $ inwardly 

 and outwardly margined with black; head beneath and face 



Fig. 1*J6. — Drabescus atrumineus. 



stramineous, anterior margin between the eyes piceous, its 

 extreme anterior edge whitish ; vertex transversely ridged ; 

 pronotum thickly finely transversely striate; scutellum strongly 

 transversely impressed before apical area. 



Length incl. tegm. 10 millim. 



Hab. Nilgiri Hills {Hampson). 



2555. Drabescus Igetisigna, Walh. (Bythoscopus) J. Linn. Soc, Zool. 

 i, p. 174 (1857). 



Head, pronotum, scutellum, body beneath and legs pale ochra- 

 ceous ; anterior margin of vertex, two spots near anterior margin, 

 a broken narrow discal curved fascia and lateral margins to pro- 

 notum, two small central spots at base and three at apex of 

 scutellum orange-red ; teginiua pale oehraceous-hyaliue, the costal 

 area and a basal spot orange-red, veins brownish, three spots on 

 inner margin of clavus, a narrow transverse discal spot before 

 middle, two larger subcostal spots beyond middle, two smaller 

 ones in a line with them near inner margin, and the apical margin 

 piceous ; apical margin of vertex somewhat strongly reflexed ; 

 pronotum very finely transversely striate, the orange- red markings 

 a little raised ; scutellum strongly transversely impressed before 

 apical area, the apex and apical lateral margins raised. 



Length incl. tegm. 10 millim. 



Hah. Tenasserim; Mjittiv (^Lkiherty). — Borneo; Sarawak (ITaZ/ace 

 — Brit. Mus.). 



2556. Drabescus linibaticeps, SUil (Selenocephalus), Of v. Vet.-Ak. 

 Fiirh. 18-58, p. 4.'Jo ; Melich. (Dabrescus) Hoin. Fuim. Ceylon, 

 p. 170 (1903). 



" Posteriorly narrowed, plumbeous ; front, geuae towards base, 

 vertex and thorax ferruginous, head towards apical margin paler, 



