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«trongly transversely impressed near middle, the lateral margins 

 laminate, anterior femora shortly spinous beneath, but witli a 

 longer spine before apex ; intermediate and posterior tibia9 

 prominently spinulose. 



Length 7| millim. 



Hah. Kangra Valley, 4500 feet (June, G. C. Dudgeon) ; 

 Purneah District (Paiva, Ind. Mus.). 



This species was taken by the same collector at the same locality 

 •and at the same time of the year as the species described by 

 Kirkaldy as A. hangricus. It cannot, however, be reconciled 

 with Kirkaldy's description, from which it seems abundantly 

 distinct. 



2844. Aphanus ornatulus, Dist. A. M.N.H. (8) p. 336 (1909). 



Reddish ochraceous ; pronotum and scutellura thickly darkly 

 punctate, lateral margins of the pronotum pale ochraceous, with 

 scattered black punctures ; head piceous brown, with a small 

 central ochraceous spot at base ; antenna; brownish ochraceous, 

 the basal joint, apices of second and third joints, and the fourth 

 joint (excluding base) piceous ; corinm with the lateral margins 

 narrowly pale ochraceous and containing a costal series of dark 

 punctures, on apical area three large black spots, one on lateral 

 margin before apex which is narrowly united to a similar spot 

 near apex of clavus and inuer angle of membrane, the third spot 

 occupying apical angle of corium ; membrane black ; sternum and 

 legs blackly punctate, apices of femora and tibise narrowly blackish : 

 antennae with the first joint thickest and shorter than head, 

 second a little longer than the third and slightly longer than the 

 fourth joint ; pronotum transversely impressed near middle, before 

 which it is moderately convexly raised, clavus and corium thickly 

 somewhat finely punctate ; membrane reaching apex of abdomen ; 

 rostrum about or almost reachins; the intermediate coxffi, the area 

 of the sternum between the coxae black ; tarsi very pale ochraceous, 

 with their apices black. 



Length 8 millim. 



Hah. Nepal Terai. 



i845. Aphanus bengalensis, Dist. A. M.N.H. (8) iii, p. 337 (1909) 



Head reddish ochraceous : antennae brownish ochraceous, basal 

 joint, apices of second and third joints, and fourth joint (excluding 

 base) piceous; pronotum ochraceous, thickly blackly punctate, the 

 lateral margins paler and longitudinally coarsely blackly punctate ; 

 scutellum ochraceous, darkly punctate (somewhat mutilated in 

 type) ; clavus and corium pale ochraceous, thickly blackly punctate, 

 the lateral margins pale and sparingly coarsely blackly punctate ; 

 a somewhat large greyish-white spot on apical margin at each 



