STACHYOLOBUS. 477 



third and fourth shorter and siibequal in Kmgth ; pronotum 

 widel}' and irregularly expanded on each side, its margins 

 longly spinose, the anterior angles produced forwardly beyond 

 the insertion o£ the antennae, the lateral margins sinuate, 

 the posterior angles truncately rounded, the posterior margin 

 truncate, not lobate ; abdomen laterally expanded, forming three 

 prominent lobes, with a fourth shorter and more obsolete near base, 

 their margins longly spinose, the penultimate lobe longest and 

 curved backward, the apical lobe ampliated and posteriorly sub- 

 truncate ; rostrum about reaching the posterior coxae! ; body 

 beneath and legs pale obscure ochraceous, the abdominal spiracles 

 black ; abdomen above greyish, darkly punctate, a small black 

 spot at middle of both anterior and posterior margins of the 

 fourth segment, two similar but widely separated spots on disk of 

 fifth segment, and two more contiguous spots at middle of apical 

 segment, the lateral lobes becoming darker apically with a more 

 or less distinct black spot near apex of each. 



Length 8 millim. 



Hah. Upper Burma ; Mandalay {Bingham, Brit. Mus.). 



Genus STACHYOLOBUS. 



Stachyolobus, StS,l, Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Fork. 1870, p. 6.)8, t. vii, f. 4 ; 

 id. En. Hem. iii, p. 88 (1873). 



Type, *S^. macilentus, Stal, from the Philippines. 



Distribution. Ceylou, Pliilippines. 



Head with the lateral lobes longly produced in front of the 

 antenniferous tubercles, their apices acute and divergent, the 

 central lobe very small, behind the antenniferous tubercles the 

 lateral margins are nearly straight and parallel ; the eyes small 

 and placed nearer base than to antennse ; ocelli close to base, 

 central and approximate ; antennse placed about midway between 

 base and apices of lateral lobes, four-jointed, first joint longer 

 than second or third, a little thickened, second and third subequal 

 in length, fourth longest ; rostrum with the first joint stoutest 

 and about reaching or slightly passing the base of the head, second 

 and third subequal, fourth reaching the posterior coxae ; pronotum 

 a little shorter than head, moderately narrowed from base to apex, 

 anterior margin truncate, lateral margins almost straightly oblique, 

 posterior margin subtruncate and retlexed ; scutellum small with 

 an upright spinous tubercle on disk, the apex also shortly curved 

 upward ; corium slightly shorter than membrane, which does not 

 reach the abdominal apex and is closely finely veined ; sternum 

 centrally sulcate ; legs long and slender ; odoriferous aperture 

 short and upwardly curved. 



2759. Stachyolob\is cuspidatus, sp. n. 



Ochraceous ; eyes blackish ; ocelli testaceous ; antennae with 



