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.sometimes more or less suffused with blackish ; scutellum and 

 corium dull deep ochraceous, the latter with the costal margin pale 

 ochraceous and sparseh^ finely pilose, cuneus usually with pale 

 castaneous suffusions ; membrane pale fuscous, the margins 

 greyish and the basal area darker by reflecting tlie abdomen 

 beneath ; body beneath and legs pale ochraceous, the lateral areas 

 of the abdomen and sometimes the posterior tibioe rosy red ; head 

 moderately convex, finely longitudinally sulcate between the eyes ; 

 antennse with the first joint moderately thickened and not quite 

 so long as the pronotum, second joint about twice as long as first, 

 scarcely longer than third, which is about twice the length of 

 fourth ; scutellum moderately convex ; corium (including cuneus) 

 a little longer than posterior tibiae ; membrane longly passing the 

 abdominal apex ; legs distinctly paler at basal areas, the tibi;e 

 spinulose, the spinules black ; rostrum with its apex black and 

 reaching the posterior coxa; ; posterior tarsi with the first and 

 second joints subequal in length. 



Length 7 to 8 millim. 



Hah. Ceylon; Penideniya {Green) \ Madulsima, Diyatalawa, 

 4000 ft., Hakgala {Bainhrujijc-Fletcher). 



3017. Megaccelum patruum, l)ist. A. M. N. H. (8) iv, p. 448 (1909). 



Head and pronotum obscure ochraceous, somewhat mottled 

 with piceous ; antennse ochraceous, the whole of the first joint, 

 base and apex of second joint, and apical two-thirds of third and 

 fourth joints black ; pronotum with the posterior lateral angles 

 narrowly black ; scutellum and corium dull pitchy black, tlie 

 latter with the costal margins ochraceous ; cuneus very dark 

 castaneous, its apex pale ; head beneath and abdomen more or less 

 brownish ochraceous, the sternum piceous or black ; legs stra- 

 mineous, apical areas of the posterior femora more or less dis- 

 tinctly blackishly biannulate ; head finely longitudinally sulcate 

 between the eyes ; antennse with the first joint moderately 

 thickened and about as long as the pronotum, second joint about 

 twice as long as first, second and third subequal in length, third 

 about twice as long as first ; scutellum moderately convex ; corium 

 (including cuneus) as long as posterior tibise ; membrane fuscous, 

 longly passing the abdominal apex ; rostrum brownish ochraceous, 

 its apex black and reaching the posterior coxae ; tibia; spinulose, 

 the spinules black. 



Var. Basal joint of antenna3 brownish, not black. 



Length 8 millim. 



Ilab. Ceylon; Kandy {Green), '^h\([vi\ii\\\\a. {Bainhriyge-Fleteher). 



Megaccelum bisekatensis. 



Lygus hiseratensis, Dist. (Vol. ii, p. 457.) 



I originally placed this species in the genus Lygus, but have 

 since received better specimens, and find that the head is distinctly 

 longitudinally impressed or sulcate between the eyes. 



