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APPENDIX. LYG^ID^, 



Subfamily APHANIN^. (Vol. II, p. 45.) 



Genus MAHISA. 

 Mahisa, Dist. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. 1, p. 412 (1906). 



Type, M. ceromatica, Dist. 



Distribution. Ceylon. 



Head about as long as expanse of eyes, anteriorly subacute, 

 obscurely transversely depressed between anterior margins of eyes, 

 moderately globose between and behind eyes where there is a 

 narrow central longitudinal striation, narrowed at base into a very 

 short neck ; eyes situate at about centre of head, and ocelli placed 

 just behind tliem at sides of head ; antennae with the first joint 

 moderately thickened and distinctly passing apex of head, about 

 half as long as second, and a little shorter than third ; rostrum 

 slightly passing the intermediate coxae, first joint reaching eyes, 

 second almost reaching base of head, third very long; pronotum 

 much shorter than broad at base, tlie lateral margins concavely 

 sinuate, anterior margin broadly moderately elevated, depressed 

 on disk ; scutellum short, with an oblique ridge starting from 

 each basal angle and uniting with a central longitudinal ridge on 

 apical area ; membrane well developed, as long as ciavus ; femora 

 moderately thickened, anterior femora spined beneath. 



2822. Mahisa ceromatica, Bisf. Ann. Soc Ent. Belg. 1, p. 413 (1906). 

 Piceous black ; posterior area of pronotum, margins and apex 



Fiff. 22. — Mahisa ceromatica. 



of ciavus, lateral margins of corium, rostrum, basal margin of 

 prosternimi, lateral margins of meso- and raetasterna, coxae, and 



