BERYTID.E, - 487 



broad subbasal pale annulatioii, basal joint of posterior tarsi 

 f^tramineous. 



Length 13 millim. 



JIah. Bombay ; Dehra Dun (C E. C. Fisher). 



I also possess a specimen captured in the Straits of Bab-el- 

 Mandeb, Red Sea, on board ship at light, by Dr. Annandale. 



Family BERYTID.E. (Vol. I, p. 421.) 



Genus METATKOPIS. 



Metatropis, Fieb. Wien. ent. Monafs. 1859, p. 206 ; id. Europ. 

 Hem. p. 213 (1861) ; 6'au7id. Mem. Horn. Brit. Islds. p. 66 

 (1892). 



Type, M. rufescens, Herr.-Scbaff., described from the Palaearctic 

 Region. 



Distribution. Palsearctic and Oriental Regions. 



" Head with a transverse channel between the eyes, vertex in 

 front of it slightly raised ; antennae very long and delicate, first 

 joint clavate at the apex, the second shorter than the third, apical 

 joint many times longer than wide ; pronotum much raised pos- 

 teriorly and trituberculate ; scutellum simple, with a slightlv 

 raised simple keel ; membrane very large ; legs very long and 

 delicate, femora clavate ; orifice of the odoriferous sac simple.'' 

 {Saunders.) 



2767. Metatropis aurita, Bredd. Wien. ent. Zeit. xxvi, p. 94 

 (1907). 



" Pale, rarely brownish ; antenna? and legs whitish-yellow ; the 

 femora (only these) finely sprinkled with black, the rather slender 

 thickening of the femora and first joint of the antenna) as well as 

 base of tibiae dull sanguineous, the apices of tibiae slightly brownish, 

 more than terminal half of tai-si blackish ; fourth joint of antennae 

 (exclusive of dirty rusty -yellowish tip), the luiderside of the head, 

 sides of propectus especially the outer surfaces of the pronotal 

 angles, the margins of the coxal cavities, middle of pectus, longi- 

 tudinal central ventral line, and suffused longitudinal ventral 

 marginal spots piceous-black or piceous-brown, the last spot 

 furnished with yellow marginal spots ; a longitudinal line on each 

 side of lower part of head, marginal keel of pronotum, and an 

 invariable spot near coxal cavities pale rusty-yellowish ; coxae and 

 trochanters ivory-white ; back of abdomen rusty-brown. Agree- 

 ing in structure with M. rufescens, but in all parts more delicate ; 

 legs and antennae comparatively shorter, pronotum far less dis- 

 tinctly punctured, the pronotal angles produced into acutely 



