AKBABATUS. 485 



punctate, the lateral margins, central line and apex pale ochra- 

 ceous and impuuctate : coriurn with the costal area stramineous, 

 the punctures hecoming thick and black between the veins towards 

 apical area ; membrane pale piceous, its apical margin pale hya- 

 line ; body beneath obscure ochraeeous ; head beneath, rostrum 

 and legs testaceous ; abdomen sometimes with two distinct longi- 

 tudinal dark fasciae and between them on basal area two narrower 

 and ill-detined fasciae, these are somewhat obsolete in the Bengal 

 specimen here figured ; tibiae paler than femora and annulated 

 with ochraeeous ; fi.rst joint of antenna) slightly passing the apex 

 of head. 



Length 9 to 9| millim. 



Hah. Bengal ; Palamow {Lefroij). — South Africa : Transvaal, 

 Zoutpansberg (Janod, Brit. Has.); Mozambique {fide Schaum). 



This species was originally described from Mozambique and 

 afterwards by myself from specimens collected at Shilouvane in 

 the north of the Zoutpansberg district of the Transvaal, which 

 is a well-wooded area aud quite distinct from the plains of the 

 high Transvaalian veld. 



ElPTOETUS FUSCTTS. (Vol. I, p. 414.) 



Since I enumerated this species (suj^ra) Mr. Green has informed 

 me that it is very destructive to young shoots and pods of French 

 Beans {Phaseolns vulgaris). The insects were swarming on a plot 

 and had completely blighted the crop. 



Genus AKBARATUS, nov. 



Type, A.fisheri, Dist. 



Distribution. Bombay. 



Head longer than breadth between eyes, narrowed anteriorly, 

 the apex of the central lobe a little prominent ; ocelli placed 

 between the posterior margins of the eyes, nearer to eyes than to 

 each other ; antennae inserted almost midway between eyes and 

 apex, first joint a little longer than the second and about equal 

 in length to third, fourth longest ; rostrum with the basal joint 

 shorter than the fourth, not quite reaching the latitude of the 

 eyes, second and third joints of almost equal length or second 

 slightly longer than third, its apex reaching the anterior coxae, 

 fourth reaching the intermediate coxae ; pronotum as long_ as 

 vertex, a little narrowed anteriorly, strongly transversely im- 

 pressed before anterior margin which is truncate, the lateral 

 margins a little oblique and ridged, the posterior margin truncate 

 before scutellum and then obhquely sinuate on each side to pos- 

 terior angles where there is a small tubercle ; scutellum short, 

 subtriangular, somewhat raised, its apex moderately spatulate ; 

 coriurn about as long as membrane, the apical angles narrowly 

 produced ; membrane slightly passing abdominal apex with oblique 



