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membrane brownish-ochraceous or fuscescent; coxae pale cas- 

 taneous; rostrum ochraceous with darker shadings; femora pale 

 or very dark castaneous ; tibia; black or very dark castaueous, 

 bases of posterior tibia- sometimes distinctly paler; tarsi ochra- 

 ceous; head shorter than its greatest breadth between eyes, 

 moderatelv rugoselv punctate, the central lobe prominent, lateral 

 lobes emarginate at apices, their lateral margins rounded and 

 moderately reilexed ; prouotum with the anterior area glabrous, 

 posterior area distinctly punctate, the lateral margins reflexed and 

 ciliate; scutellum distinctly punctate, excepting basal margin, 

 whicli is slightly raised and practically impunctate, the apex 

 slightly depressed longitudinally in the centre ; membrane passing 

 the abdominal apex ; anterior femora robust. 



Length. 6 4i-(H, 2 7-8; max. breadth, 6 4-41, 5 4-5 milhni. 



Hab. South India; Chikkabaliapura and Mysore State {T. V. 

 Camphell). 



Breddin (Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. liii, p. 260, 1909) has described a 

 species from Ceylon under the name of Lacfistes mediator. I have 

 hitherto not seen a specimen of this genus from Ceylon, and it 

 may, or may not, prove to be one of the species recorded from the 

 Indian mainland. 



Genus CYDNUS. (Vol. I, p. 90 & A^ol. lY, p. 426.) 



3686. Cydiius ater, sp. n. 



Body above shining black; extreme basal margin of the pro- 

 uotum, inner claval margin and apical margin of the corium, dark 

 castaneous; membrane greyish-white; body beneath dark casta- 

 neous ; legs brownish-ochraceous; antennae pale brownish, the 

 apices of the joints pale stramineous, the last three joints very 

 distinctly thickened; head above with the anterior margin 

 narrowly pale brownish, and shortly spinulose witii afew longer 

 hairs, the base transversely striated, central lobe prominent ;_ pro- 

 notum with the anterior marginal area transversely striated, 

 remaining area sparsely punctate; scutellum excluding basal 

 margin thickly finely punctate, the apex a Httle foveate ; tibise 

 spinulose, the tarsi pale stramineous. 



Length 4-4^ millim. 



Hah. South "India; Nandidrug and Chikkabaliapura (2. I. 



Gamphell). 



AUied to C. nigritus, Fabr. (vol. i, p. 90), but a smaller and 

 relatively broader species, pronotum less punctate basally, the 

 scutellum more narrowed apically, &c. 



Cydnus germ anus, Bredd. Arch. Natunj. Berl. 1913, p. 96. 



" In colour, shape and size very near C. nigritus, but the pro- 

 notum on the posterior half andou the lateral areas without or 

 with very indistinct punctures or rugosities ; the scutellum dis- 

 tinctly flatter, more tinely and sparsely punctured than in the 



