NAAAERUS. 



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abdomen beneath, pale testaceous ; membrane pitchy-brown 

 with the basal margins broadly ochraceous ; femora piceous, their 

 bases, and the tibiae and tarsi ochraceous ; antenna3 with the first 

 and third joints piceous, second brown with its apex piceous, 

 fourth stramineous with its apical half brown ; pronotum, except 

 the anterior area, and the scutellum sparsely finely punctate, 

 clavus and corium more densely punctate, but the last with the 

 lateral mai'gins almost impunctate. 



Var. Corium dull ochraceous, with a large subtriangular 

 piceous patch on apical area. 



Length 6 to 8 millim. 



Hab. Ceylon ; Wellawaya {Green). 



Genus NAVARRUS. 

 Navamis, Dtst. A.M.N. H. (7) viii, p. 476 (1901). 



Type, N. i^hoeopMlus, "Walk. 



Distribution. Recorded from Ceylon to Celebes. 



Body ovate, depressed ; head porrect, about half as long as the 

 pronotum, inserted to the posterior margins of the eyes ; ocelli 

 at base, very near the eyes ; rostrum about reaching or very 

 slightly passing the anterior coxae, first joint short, reaching or 



Fig. 2-3. — Xavarri'.s phceophilui. 



slightly passing eyes ; antennae with the first joint stoutest, 

 slightly passing apex of head, third joint shortest, second and 

 foui-th subequal in length, fourth distinctly hirsute ; pronotum 

 narrowing from base to head, transversely impressed near middle, 

 the lateral margins sinuate with their edges distinctly produced, 

 posterior margin truncate, anterior margin slightly concave ; 



