LETH^US. 7i 



and shortly spinous beneath ; posterior tarsi with the basal joint 

 about twice as long as the other two joints together. 



Length 6 millim. 



Hab. Manipur. 



The membrane reaching the abdominal apex in this species will 

 require a corresponding modification in the generic diagnosis. 



Genus LETH^US. (Vol. II, p. 87.) 



2853. Lethaeus taprohanes, Kirk. Atm. Soc. Ent. Belg. 1908, p. 11. 



" Dull black ; first segment of the antennae blackish piceous, 

 second and third fusco-castaneous, fourth sordid ochreous ; ocelli 

 pale stramineous ; lateral margins of pronotum (very narrowly) and 

 a spot near the postero-lateral angle pale ferruginous ; tegmina 

 blackish, clavus exteriorly and interiorly narrowly obscure ferru- 

 ginous, a pale spot near the scutellum a little basal of the middle ; 

 corial veins more or less obscure ferruginous, a couple of pale spots 

 and two or three small pale (black-punctured) areas ; also close to 

 the extero-posterior angle, there is a large circle, the interior dark, 

 concolorous with the tegmen, the periphery narrowly pale ; mem- 

 brane smoky cinereous, veins pale, their apical parts darker ; 

 femora piceous, rest of legs and the entire labium [rostrum] 

 obscure ferruginous ; odoriferous orifices blackish, part of the 

 canal ferruginous ; pronotum, except a transverse submedian area, 

 and scutellum strongly and finely punctured, tegmina more 

 coarsely ; labium [rostrum] reaching hind coxae, first segment 

 [joint] reaching rather beyond the base of the head." {Kirlcaldy.y 



Length 7 millini. 



Hah. Ceylon ; Trincomalee (Green). 



Kirkaldy has rendered his description somewhat unintelligible 

 by omitting to give any dimension of the species. Two specimens 

 received from Mr. Green and measuring 7 millim in length appear 

 to agree vrith the diagnostic characters. Kirkaldy has also re- 

 frained from giving any locality, but his description is included 

 under ' Sinhalese Hemiptera.' 



2854. Lethaeus crassiceps. 



Rhypnrochromus ? crassiceps, Dola-n (vol. ii, p. 78) ; Bredd. 

 (Lethajus) Deutseh. ent. Zeitschr. 1907, p. 212, tig. 6. 



I bad previously referred to this species which I was unable to 

 identify, even generically, from Dohrn's description. Since then 

 Breddin has stated that he has examined the type, of which he 

 gives the following description : — 



" d" . A small, finely coloured but not shining species, with a short 

 plump and roundly pointed head, which, with the comparatively 

 large eyes, is distinctly more than half as broad as the pronotum 



