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APPE>'DIX. — CAPSID^. 



less ocbraceous ; scutellum black ; clavus black, with a large dull 

 ocbraceous spot near middle ; corium subhyaline, with blackish 

 spots, the two largest forming a transverse fascia near middle ; 

 cimeus and membranal cells margined with piceous ; membrane 

 pale hyaline, longly passing the abdominal apex ; body beneath 



Fig. 135. — Apollodotus prcpfecius. 



and legs black, apices of the femora and basal areas of the inter- 

 mediate and posterior femora ocbraceous, tibiae and tarsi ocbraceous ; 

 abdomen beneath with two ocbraceous spots on each side beyond 

 middle ; other structural characters as in generic diagnosis. 



Length 3| riillim. 



Hah. Bengal; Pusa (i/c/ro?/). Ceylon; Eppawala ((7jw7i). 



Genus HELOPELTIS. (Vol. II, p. 439.) 



3026. Helopeltis cinchonae, Mann, Mem. Bept. Ayric. hid. Ent. 

 ser, 1, n. 4, p. 328 (1907). 



Male. — " Head black, no tubercle at base of antennae ; antennas 

 with the first joint stramineous-luteous speckled with black, 

 nodulose and incrassated during most of the length (-97 mm.), 

 second joint dark brown with black tip (3'00 mm), third dark 

 brown, extreme base and apical third black, slightly thickened at 

 apex ; rostrum ochraceous-luteous, with dark brown tip (I'GO mm.), 

 second joint ("33 mm.), fourth joint ('50 mm.) ; pronotum of usual 

 generic shape, wholly black above and below ; bead and pronotum 

 (1'37 mm.?) ; scutellum black, scutellar born black for about a 

 quarter of the length from the bottom, above this luteous through- 

 out, except for extremely narrow ring just below the tip, as stovTt 

 as in //. theivora (in all specimens yet seen), very slightly bent, 

 (1"27 mm.), the clavate tip is not nearly so large relatively to the 



