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third and fourth subequal in length ; pronotum with the pale 

 lateral margins somewhat obliquely laminate, the basal area 

 centrally longitudinally carinate ; scutellum moderately ridged at 

 base ; membrane not quite reaching abdominal apex ; anterior 

 femora incrassate and with a prominent spine near apex. 



Length 94 millim. 



Hab. South India; Kodaikanal (T'. V. Campbell). 



3800. Aphanus discoguttatus, sp. n. 



Head, pronotum and scutellum black ; pronotum with narrow 

 anterior margin and broad lateral margin pale ochraceous ; apex 

 of scutellum ochraceous ; oorium piceous-brown, costal margin — 

 broken near middle and before apex — the apical angle, and a 

 small spot near middle of apical margin, ochraceous ; membrane 

 black ; body beneath piceous ; legs ochraceous, anterior femora 

 (excluding extreme apices), about apical halves of intermediate and 

 posterior femora, and apices of tibiae and tarsi, black ; antennas 

 with the basal joint black, second, third and fourth ochraceous, 

 apex of second, and apical halves of third and fourth black ; 

 pronotum moderately, broadly, transversely impressed behind 

 middle, basal area coarsely punctate and with an obscure, central, 

 longitudinal carina, the lateral margins obliquely laminate and 

 impunctate; scutellum moderately depresssd near base, and ti'aus- 

 versely wrinkled on apical area ; membrane nearly (more or less) 

 reacliiug the abdominal apex ; intermediate and posterior tibiae 

 with long bristles. 



Length 8-9 millim. 



Hab. South India; Nandidrug, Kodaikanal and Yercaud(2'. F, 

 Campbell). 



3801. Aphanus ornatus, sp. n. 



Head black, sometimes thickly greyishly pubescent ; pronotum 

 with the anterior area purplish-black, with two small transverse 

 ochraceous spots on its anterior margin, posterior area ochraceous, 

 thickly brownly punctate, and with a transverse black spot near 

 each lateral angle, the lateral margins nmpliate, recurved, and 

 very pale ochraceous; scutellum with two small central spots and 

 its apex very pale ochraceous; coriuni ochraceous, darkl}' punc- 

 tate, a large spot near each inner angle, and the apical margin 

 black, costal margin pale and impunctate ; body beneath dark 

 castaneous ; legs black, apices of the anterior femora, basal halves 

 of the intermediate and posterior femora, and tibiae excluding ex- 

 treme apices, ochraceous ; antennae with the first, second and third 

 joints brownish-ochraceous, fourth joint piceous, second and third 

 joints a little longest. 



Length 8-8^ millim. 



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



