NAGUSTA. 215 



" iuto II black spine; scutellum testaceous, the apex a little pro- 

 duced and with a white callus ; sternum livid testaceous, pleura 

 black, minutely reticulated with a shoi-t pale silky pubescence ; 

 hemelytra nearly reaching tlie abdominal apex ; corium including 

 clavus dark grey, veins (the somewhat black subcostal excepted) 

 strongly elevated and whitish, discoidal cell small, about as 

 long as broad, the connecting vein * twice as long as the 

 discoidal cell ; membrane cinereous, the veins piceous, apical vein 

 bordered with piceous ; abdomen livid testaceous, with short silky 

 pubescence, laterally t'uscously black, an apical fascia on each 

 segment ot the conuexivum (fourth excepted) above and beneath, 

 and the spiracles, whitish ; genital segment of the female spotted 

 with fuscous-black; legs pilose, testaceous, anterior femora with 

 three obscure anuulations on anterior half, a subapical anuulation 

 to posterior femora and apex of tibiae, fuscous. 



" Length $ 11-5 millim." 



Hub. Bombay. 



Dr. Bergroth kindly forwarded his type to enable the above 

 figure to be made, and I regret to state that it w as badly damaged 

 in transit. 



2993. Nagusta singalensis, Z> /*■/. Ann. Soc. Ent. Beh/. liii, p. ,373 

 (1909). 



Head uniformly black or fuscous ; antennae uniformly brownish 

 ochraceous ; pronotu.m, scutellum, and hemelytra more or less 

 testaceous brown sprinkled wdth cinereous ; rostrum and legs 

 brownish ochraceous ; body beneath cinereous speckled with 

 brownish ; abdomen beneath with a central longitudinal brown 

 line ; first joint of antennae almost as long as head and pronotum 

 together, second joint a little shorter than first ; rostrum with 

 the first joint a little longer than the remaining joints together ; 

 head with an oblique spine behind the base of each antenna, the 

 postocular portion a little more than twice as long as the ante- 

 ocular portion ; pronotum a little shorter than the head, the 

 posterior lobe very obtusely bituberculate near base, the lateral 

 angles produced in slender brown spines which are a little 

 recurved ; hemelytra nearly reaching the abdominal apex, the 

 discoidal cell a little longer than broad ; membrane glossy cinereous 

 brown, the veins prominent and piceous. 



Length (5' 13 millim. 



Hah. Ceylon ; Peradeniya {Green). 



Allied to N. macrohba, Bergr., but with the discoidal cell of 

 the corium distinctly longer than broad and with the antennae 

 and legs concolorous, not palely annulated ; head uniformly 

 black, &.C. 



* Bergroth expiaine that he applies the term " counecting vein " to that 

 section o!' the apical margin of the corium which connects the discoidal cell 

 with the inner apical angle. — Ed. 



