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opaqvie part makes it very probable tliat the veins originally 

 sprang from a series of cells ; the greatest breadth of the abdomen 

 is somewhere between the tips of the third segment and is there 

 considerably longer than at the lateral angles of the pronotnm ; 

 connexiviim very broad, from base of second segment onwards 

 free from the hemelytra, side borders sharpened, slightly arched 

 and at the borders between the segments somewhat curved 

 inwardly, consequently the whole abdominal border seems slightly 

 festooned, along lateral borders runs a sharplv-defined very 

 narrow and shallow gutta, inner part of connexivum just as 

 finely and thickly punctate as hemelytra, towards the lateral 



Fig. 272. — Ei/ipi/stirus johni. 



borders the punctures become coarser and wider apart, the whole 

 connexivum olive-green, only the lateral gutta bordered by two 

 fine black lines of which the outer one includes the ridge of the 

 side margin ; posterior angles of the sixth abdominal segment not 

 dentately produced ; body beneath punctate and finely wrinkled, 

 the wrinkles extremelv fine on the ventral disk Miiich is more 

 coarsely and sparingly punctate on the sides, on the keel the disk 

 is nearly smooth and shining ; the colour of the underside is 

 somewhat yellowish-green, only the middle of the base of the 

 abdomen, from the third segment onward, the meta- and meso- 

 sterna and the sides of the posterior and intermediate coxa? are 

 brownish, the circumference of the stigmata is dark brown; femora 

 yellowish-green, tibiae greenish, the lower ridge very strongly 

 bristled, tarsi yellowish, the second joint slightly longer than the 

 first, apices of claws deep brown." {Oshanin.) 

 '•Length 26; greatest breadth IS millim." 

 Nab. Ceylon; Kandy (0. J. John — -Jide Oshanin). 

 I have not seen this species, but Prof. Oshanin has kindly had 

 a beautiful drawing (here reproduced) made from the unique 

 type. 



