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shiniDg, a little transparent, o£ delicate cousisteuce throughout 

 and uniformly coloured to their apices, veins iuvisihle ; legs 

 slender but not very long." (Motschouhkij.) 



2696. Motschiilskia inspiratus, Motsch. (Conometopus) Bull. Soc. 

 Nat. Mosc. xxxvi, -'j, p. 104, t. ii, f. 22 (1803) ; Melich. Horn. 

 Faun. Ceylon, p. 221 (1903). 



" Elongate, narrow, posteriorly parallel, shining, white ; disk of 

 vertex and pronotum, an elongate-triangular spot to tegmina, 

 anteriorly subsinuate, extending to apex, fuscous-piceous ; tegmina 

 posteriorly and the legs subrosaceous ; head and pronotum laterally 

 and lateral margins of the tegmina at humeral angles broadly 

 white ; head triangular, posteriorly strongly concavely arcuate, 

 with a medial elongate line subrosaceous ; eyes elongate, whitish ; 

 ocelli none ; pronotum transverse, anteriorly infuseate, posteriorly 

 concavely arcuate ; mesonotum trapezoidal, slightly marked with 

 four fuscous vitta3 ; scutellum triangular : tegmina as broad as 

 pronotum, elongate, shining, veins indistinct." (3Iotschoulsl->f.) 



" Length li lin. ; breadth of head i lin." 



Hah. Ceylon ; Mont Patannas {Nietner, fide Motschovhl-y). 



I have not reproduced the figure as it is of little assistance, and 

 I have no personal knowledge of the species. 



