LISPOCHROA. 



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Genus LISPOCHROA. 



Lispochroa, Bredd. Deidsch. ent. Zeitschr. 1907, p. 215. 



Type, L. blundnla, Bredd. 



Distribution. Ceylon. 



"Body small, above bare, shining; head distinctly shorter than 

 pronotiun, the front arched downwards, punctured, including the 

 comparatively small eyes, little more than half as broad as the 

 pronotum between the shoulders ; antennas hairy, modei'ately long, 

 lirst joint not or scarcely passing beyond the clypeus, second and 

 third about equally long, fourth rather longer than third ; pro- 

 notum strongly transversely trapezoidal, nearly twice as broad as 

 long, with rounded sides strongly narrowed towards the front, in 

 front narrower than the head with the eyes, transverse impression 

 wanting, the front half strongly convex in the middle ; the front 

 marginal area, which is separated off like a collar by an oblique 

 impression on each side, and also the hinder half, rather strongly 

 and thickly, anyhow very distinctly, punctate ; side marginal keel 

 sharpened and distinct but narrow, hind border almost truncated ; 

 scutellum not longer than broad, distinctly punctured, the lateral 

 borders with a row of punctures, with an unpunctured sub- 

 marginal stripe on inner side ; clavus with three distinct rows of 

 punctures ; corium distinctly punctured, the cubital vein elevated 

 and approximated to the rimula which slightly curves away 

 internally and is separated from it by a fine row of punctures ; 

 costal area in basal third linear, then widened, rather broad, 

 separated off from cubital by a thick row of punctures, behind 

 the middle with an impressed longitudinal row of punctures, other- 

 wise unpunctured ; membrane with a crooked puckered transverse 

 furrow at the base and with free veins, not extending beyond the 

 anus ; first joint of rostrum scarcely passing base of head ; legs 

 short, femora unarmed, tibias set with stiff bristles, basal joiut of 

 hind tai'si little longer than the two other joints together ; under- 

 side shining, abdomen beneath sparingly punctured, on the basal 

 outer margin with a long narrow marginal appendage [emanating 

 from the first abdominal steruite] ; of the stigmata three and four 

 are very close to the marginal appendage but still stand in the 

 sternites ; the incision between sternites 2--3 indicated by a short 

 sutural transverse line, that between sternites 4-5 extremely 

 weak, without sutural sculpture and without sutural thickening, 

 laterally strongly bent towards the front, the incision between 

 sternites 6-7 forming a distinct suture, sides of fifth abdominal 

 sternite with three small glandular spots (Div. Letha-aria, Stal) ; 

 dorsal incisions almost straight and complete, the hinder at- 

 least strongly and finely sutured ; fourth tergite remarkably short, 

 almost only one-third as long as fifth, laterally rather narrowed, 

 outwardly again expanded ; 5 ano-geuital apparatus rather sunk 

 in, the seventh abdominal sternite long at sides ; in middle very 



