44 APPENDIX.— LYGJEIDyi;. 



Breddin places the species in the genus Teracrius, Stal, an 

 allied genus to Phleipjas founded on a South African species which 

 I have not seen. This may be correct, but, at present, I leave the 

 species as originally located. 



Subfamily OXYCARENINiE. (Vol. II, p. 42.) 



2820. Oxycarenus musculus, Bredd. Deutsch. ent. Zeitschr. 1907, 

 p. 219. 



c? 2 . " Differs from 0. lugubris, Motsch., by the following 

 characters. Stature very small, (likewise in $ ) ; the wliite costal 

 margin characteristic of 0. lugubris is in this species broadly 

 interrupted behind the middle by the black transverse band 

 running to the costa ; coriiim, except the white basal third, with 

 a white transverse band just before the black hind angle ; mem- 

 brane very narrowly bordered with white, the inner angle, as well 

 as a narrow stripe along the membranal division white ; middle 

 and hind tibiae (except base and apex) and the odoriferous 

 aperture, as well as the hind border of the metapleura, ivory- 

 white. Several completely corresponding specimens." {Breddin.\ 



" Length 2|-3 millim." 



Hah. Ceylon ; Anuradhapura {fide Breddin). 



I have not seen this species.* 



Genus MARUTHAS, nov. 



Type, M. saniosus, Dist. 



Distrihution. At present only known from Ceylon. 



Head a little longer than broad, including eyes, attenuated and 

 obtusely angulate anteriorly ; eyes small and contiguous to the 

 anterior angles of the pronotum ; antennae with the first joint not 

 reaching apex of head, second longest, third and fourth subequal 

 in length ; rostrum long, passing the middle of abdomen, first 

 joint about reaching base of head, second just passing the anterior 

 coxae ; pronotum longer than broad, transversely impressed near 

 middle, before which it is moderately convex, the posterior area or 

 lobe longitudinally impressed and obliquely directed forwardly. 



* Bergroth (Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xlix, p. 381 (1905)) states that 0. lafus, 

 Kirby (vol. ii, p. 43), is identical with the Pa]a?arctic and Ethiopian 0. hyalini- 

 pennis, Costa. This opinion is ignored by Breddin (Deutsch. ent. Zeitschr. 

 1907, p. 218) who has followed my method in keeping Kirby's species as 

 distinct. 



