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3774. MacropeS rufipes, Dist. Entomologist, xliv, p. 105 (1911). 



Head, pronotum and scutelliun black ; corium ochraceous, more 

 or less streaked with piceous ; membrane very pale ochraceous 

 with the veins darker; body beueatli black, the legs reddisli- 

 ochraceous ; antenniB black, the first, second and third joints more 

 or less ochraceous, the apices of the second and tlnrd joints dis- 

 tinctlv clavate and black at apices ; pronotum broadly, distinctly, 

 transversely impressed a little before base, before this a little 

 convex and irregulailv impressed, the lateral margins moderately 

 rounded, the basal inargin moderately concave, the whole very 

 finely punctate ; membrane extending to a little beyond the 

 middle of the abdomen, connexivum dull ochraceous ; abdomen 

 above black, finely ochraceously pilose ; body beneath black, very 

 finely ochraceously pilose. 



Length 7-8 millim. 



Hab. Sikkim ; Kurseong. 



Allied to 31. punctipes, Walk., but differing by the pronotum 

 being less deeply concave at the posterior margin ; the second and 

 third joints of antenna} distinctly clavate at their apices ; different 

 colour of the legs, etc. . 



We are indebted to Dr. Montandon for specimens ot this 



species. 



3775. Macropes consimilis, sp. u. 



Head, pronotuui, scutellum and body beneath black ; femora 

 black, their apices and the tibiae and tarsi ochraceous ; conum and 

 membrane pale ochraceous, the apical margin of the former piceous ; 

 antennae with the first and second joints ochraceous, third and 

 fourth black ; pronotum with the anterior half convex and sparsely, 

 finely punctate, basal half flattened, thickly finely punctate, the 

 basal margin a little gibbous and almost impunctate ; membrane 

 not quite reaching the abdominal apex ; anterior femora strongly 

 incrassated and strongly spined beneath. 



Length 7 millim. 



Hab. South India; Kodaikanal (T. V. Campbell). 



3776, Macropes abbreviatus, sp. n. 



Head, antennae, pronotum, scutellum, head beneath and sternum 

 iet-black; abdomen above and beneath piceous-brown ; corium 

 piceous, the veins ochraceous; membrane dark hyaline; rostrum 

 and legs dull sanauineous; basal joint of antennae castaneous, 

 second and fourth joints subequal in length, each a little longer 

 than third: pron(jtum with the lateral margins convex near 

 middle, basal area compressed, thickly coarsely punctate, extreme 

 basal margin impunctate; corium and membrane very short, 

 scarcely extending beyond base of first abdominal segment. 



Length 5| millim. 



Hab. South India; Kodaikanal (T. V. Campbell). 



