478 



APPEITDIX. — COREID.i;. 



the first joint (excluding base), the fourth joint (excluding apex) 

 and the extreme bases and apices oi: the second and tliird joints 

 piceous ; head almost smooth with a central incised longitudinal 

 line between the latitude of the antennse and the ocelli ; pro- 

 notum thickly and coarsely punctate, with an anterior submarginal 



Fig. 276. — Sfarhi/ololius cuspidatus. 



smooth area which possesses two central darker lines ; scutellum 

 with an upright robust discal spine, the apex also shortly upwardly 

 obliquely x-ecurved ; corium sparingly coarsely punctate, the claval 

 area more thickly punctate ; rostrum with a central piceous line 

 on underside of first joint, the remaining joints almost wholly 

 piceous ; abdomen beneath with three longitudinal piceous lines, 

 and two prominent and distinct black spots on the anterior 

 margins of the third and fourth segments. 



Length J 15 millim. 



Hah. Ceylon; Peradeniya ((?vY<?)i)' 



Genus ACESTRA. 



Acestra, Ball. List Hem. ii, pp. 485 & 488 (1852). 



Type, A. slnica, Dall. 



Distribution. Oriental and Malayan Regions. Originally 

 described from China. 



"Head elongated, pointed in front, with the central lobe pro- 

 jecting beyond the apex of the lateral lobes in the form of a long, 

 pointed process, latei-al margins, from the antenniferous tubercles 

 to the base of the head, nearly parallel ; eyes small, not prominent ; 

 ocelli small, approximated, placed close to the anterior margin of 



