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cuueus with the lateral aud jiosterior )nai-gins and a small spot 

 near its inner base dark castaneous ; membrane hyaline, trans- 

 versely trifasciately mottled with pale fuscous ; body beneath and 

 legs pale ochraceous, pro- and mesonota with a sublateral black 

 fascia, abdominal apex castaneous, centrally black ; antennte with 

 the basal joint sHghtly shorter than head, second joint more than 

 twice as long as first, third little more than half as long as second, 

 but much longer than fourth ; prouotum with two transverse 

 callosities near anterior margin ; corium shortly obscurely pilose ; 

 membrane longly passing the abdominal apex ; apices of the tarsi 

 black. 



Length 3.| millim. 



}lab. L. Bengal ; Sonarpur. 



3033. Lygus costatus, Disf. A. M. X. II. (S) iv, p. r,\2 (J 901)). 



Head ochraceous, the apex and eyes black ; antennae with the 

 first aud second joints ochraceous, apical area of the second black, 

 third and fourth joints pale piceous ; pronotum ochraceous, the 

 disk frequently discoloured ; scutellum ochraceous ; corium ochra- 

 ceous, its disk paler and obscurely greyish ; inner claval maro-in 

 (broadly), margins of claval suture, costal margin, and a spot at 

 base and apex of cuneus black ; membrane brownish-oehraceous, 

 with darker mottlings, the basal area darker by the reflection ot 

 the abdomen beneath ; body beneath and legs ochraceous, disk ot 

 mesonotum and a spot at base of abdomen black ; basal joint of 

 antenna3 about as long or very slightly shorter than head, second 

 joint a little more than twice as long as first ; pronotum with two 

 transverse callosities behind the anterior margin ; scutellum 

 moderately tumid ; corium obscurely, thickly, shortly pilose ; 

 membrane considerably passing the abdominal apex ; tibial spinules 

 and apices of the tarsi black. 



Var. — The black inner margin to clavus occupying the greater 

 part of its area and the costal black margin considerably A^idened 

 to\\ards apex. 



Length 5 millim. 



Hab. Xepal ; Chonebal, Katmandu (Iiid. Mu.s-.). 



Lygls decoloeatus. (Vol. II, p. 45.").) 



Add : Hab. E. Himalayas ; Kurseong, 5000 ft. (Annundule) ; 

 Bhim Tal, 4500 ft., Kumaon. Nepal ; Xagorkoto, Katmandu. 

 Calcutta. 



3034. Lygus gemellus, Bist. A. M. N. II. (8) iv, p. 513 (1909). 



Ochraceous, possibly virescent in living or fresh specimens ; 

 eyes black ; antenna) greenish ochraceous, apex of the second and 

 the whole of the third and fourth joints pale fuscous ; cuneus with 



