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APPBNBIX. — CAPSID^. 



ochi-aceous ; rostrum, tibiae, and tarsi brownish oehi-aceous, apex 

 of rostrum black ; head granulose, with a pale, central, longitudinal 

 spot at base ; pronotum puncta,te and shortly, palely pilose; clavus 

 and corium thickly, palely pihjse ; other structural characters as 

 in generic diagnosis. 



Length 4 millim. 



Hah. Ceylon ; Peradeniya {Green). 



Genus NICOSTRATUS. (Vol. II, p. 475.) 

 3047. Nicostratus princeps, Dist. Entomoloyist, 1909, p. 60. 



Brownish ochraceous ; a transverse white fascia crossing corium 

 and clavus at apex of scutellum : membrane piceous ; head very 

 large and globose, almost circular, about as long as broad, with a 

 transverse rounded incised line between the eyes ; antennae pale 

 ochraceous, apices of second and third joints, and the apical 

 joint excluding base, black, second joint subequal in length to 

 third and fourth together ; pronotum strongly transversely con- 

 stricted before middle, the anterior area or lobe narrow and 



Fig. 144. — Nicostratus princeps. 



armed with two strong diverging spines, the posterior area or 

 lobe globosely tumid, deflected anteriorly, the lateral angles sub- 

 prominent, the posterior margin very slightly concavely sinuate ; 

 scutelknu developed into a strong upright serai-acute spine ; 

 corium with the lateral margins concavely sinuate, widened and 

 tumid at apices ; membrane considerably passing the abdominal 

 apex ; legs almost uniformly brownish ochraceous. 



Length, 5 millim. 



Hah. Nilgiri Hills ; Barwood Estate {H. Leslie Andrewes). 



Strongly differing from N. halteatus, Dist., by the much larger 

 and more strongly developed head, diiferent colour, more acute 

 spine to scutellum, &c. 



