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a broad long;itudinal furrow deepening towards the base of the 

 rostrum ; punctuation of the front moderately fine and thick, 

 interspersed with unpunctured places ; pronotum ahnost flat, 

 trapezoidal ; the shoulders angular, only slightly rounded off, and 

 distinctly narrower than the corium behind the base ; lateral pro- 

 notal margins nearly linear, the dull rusty yellowish lateral keel 

 narrow, slightly broadened in front, suddenly rounded off and 

 disappearing at the anterior angle, near which it bears a long 

 perpendicular bristle ; pronotal process coarsely punctured, pitchy 

 brown, with a very distinct median longitudinal keel, not quite 

 extending to hind border ; ' pronotum proprium ' rather more 

 finely punctured, pitchy black, front part like a collar, being 

 divided off on each side hy an oblique impressed linear furrow, 

 rising from the anterior angles and not quite reaching the middle 

 of the pronotum ; scutellum black, thickly and coarsely punctured, 

 a Y-shaped slight convexity of the surface more diffusely punctured 

 and suffused pitchy-brown ; corium and clavus with rather coarse 

 punctures and narrow strongly raised veins, the ' rimula' following 

 the cubital vein at the narrowest and not separated from it by 

 punctuation ; the intermediate vein of corium distinctly forked in 

 front, costal area on basal third of corium very narrow, forming a 

 furrow, with one row of punctures, afterwards broader with irregular 

 punctuation; of the four rows of punctures on clavus the two 

 middle rows are regidarly arranged throughout and approximate ; 

 hemelytra pitchy brown, the veins, the brown-punctured irregularly 

 bordered basal third, as well as an irregular transverse patch 

 before the hinder angle of the corium, whitish ; membrane rather 

 small, with one or two large basal cells, light smoky grey, the veins 

 darker, the inner angle and a stripe along the membranal division 

 pitchy brown ; underside black", pectus coarsely punctured, shining, 

 the venter almost lustreless, the female ano-genital apparatus pitchy 

 brownish; rostrum pale yellow, reaching posterior coxae, fourth 

 joint scarcely half as long as third ; legs pitchy black, apices of 

 femora rather paler, anterior femora on the underside with a row 

 of bristles increasing in length towards the apex, near the end with 

 a comb of small spines, four or five, of which the proximal is much 

 the longest ; tibiae and tarsi pale rusty yellow, the former with a 

 few half upright bristles (hind tibiae, for instance, with six on the 

 upper side) ; antennae pitchy brown, second joint paler, articulations 

 between joints 2, 3, and 4 whitish." (Breddin.) 



" Length 5| to 6^ millim." 



Hab. Ceylon ; Nalanda, Anuradhapura (Jide Breddin), 



I have not seen this species. 



Genus NEOLETHiEUS. 



Neolethffius, Dist. A. M. N. R. (8) iii, p. 340 (1909). 



Type, N. tijpicus, Dist. 



Distribution. Burma. 



Head about as long as broad (including eyes), central lobe a little 



