NAGUSTA. 213 



2991. Laiica kaiidyensis, DiRt. A. 31. N. H. (7) xviii, p. 370 (1906). 



Pale fuscous brown ; pronotum much mottled with ochi'aceous 

 pile, more thickly so on post-^rior lobe ; antennae pale fuscous- 

 brown, first joint ochraceous with its apex infuscate ; antenniferous 

 tubercles castaneous ; eyes black : rostrum ochraeeous ; anterior 



Fig. 117. — Laiiea kandij'cn^i-'. 



femora with an obscure, subapical, greyish anuulatioD,and anterior 

 tibiae with a similar subbasal anuulation ; intermediate and posterior 

 femora anuulated and basally suffused with ochraeeous, the tibiio 

 with a similarly coloured subbasal aunulation ; body and legs shortly 

 pilose ; the abdomen beneath piceous and ochraceously pilose. 



Length 18 millim. 



Hah. Ceylon {Lewis); Kaud\^ [Green). 



Genus NAGUSTA. 



Nagusta, Stdl, Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Fork. 1859, p. 374 ; id. Hem. Afr. iii, 



p. 59 (1865) ; 'id. En. Hem. iv, p. 7 (1874). 

 Zelus, Kolenati, Melet. vi, p. 41 (1857). 

 Phanerocoris, Jakowl. BiiU. Soc. Nat. Mosc. xlix (2) p. :267 (1875). 



Type, iV. (joedeli, Kolenati, a Palaearetic species. 



Distribution. Palaearctic, Ethiopian, and Oriental Kegious. 



"Body elongate; head elongate, anteriorly bispinous ; eyes 

 situate before the middle of head ; rostrum with the first joint 

 subequal in length to the two apical joints ; antenna) with the 

 first joint shghtly shorter than the head and pronotum together ; 

 pronotum before the middle constricted, the anterior lobe destitute 

 of spines or tubercles, posterior lobe more or less distinctly discally 

 bituberculute, posterior angles not produced ; scutelluui a little 



