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3048. Nicostratus diversus, Dist. A. M. N. II. (8) iv, p. 520 (1909). 



Head and pronotum fuscous brown, eyes black ; antennae black, 

 basal joint brownish ochraceous, bases of third and fourth joints 

 stramineous ; scutellum piceous, with the lateral margins strami- 

 neous ; corium black, clavus and corium crossed by a transverse 

 white fascia near apex of scutellum ; cuneus black, membrane 

 dark piceous; head beneath, sternum and legs brownish ochraceous, 

 intermediate and posterior coxae and bases of femora whitish, 

 apices of tibise and the tarsi pale ochraceous, apices of tarsi black ; 

 abdomen beneath black, with the base and a central longitudinal 

 line ochraceous ; antennae somewhat stout, basal joint shorter than 

 head, second about three times as long as first, third longer than 

 fourth, tliird and fourth together almost as long as second ; 

 rostrum passing the anterior coxje ; pronotum globosely tumid, 

 deflected anteriorly, where it is strongly constricted and behind a 

 narrow anterior collar armed with two strong divergent spines ; 

 scutellum developed in a strong robust upright tuberculous spine ; 

 cuneus posteriorly deflected ; membrane considerably passing the 

 abdominal apex. 



Length 4 millim. 



Hah. Orissa. 



Genus ABIBALUS. 

 Abibalus, Dist. A. M. N. H. (8) iv, p. 521 (1909). 



Type, A. regulus, Dist. 



Distribution. North India. 



Head longer than broad, globose, anteriorly broadly convex ; 

 eyes a little exserted, nearer to anterior margin than to base, 

 behind eyes moderately obliquely attenuated; antennae with the first 

 joint slightly longer than head, second more than twice as long as 

 first, third joint about two-thirds the length of second and a third 

 longer than fourth ; rostrum reaching the posterior coxae ; prono- 

 tum longer than broad, anterior margin about half the bi'eadth of 

 posterior margin, posterior margin concave, exposing the meso- 

 notum, lateral margins concavely oblique ; scutellum small, 

 subtriangular ; corium including cuneus very slightly longer than 

 posterior tibiae, excluding cuneus neaidy three times longer than 

 broad ; cuneus elongate, much longer than broad ; membrane 

 large, about as long as corium without the cuneus, a somewhat 

 long cell on basal area; legs finely spinulose, all the tibiae subequal 

 in length ; posterior tarsi with the basal joint luugest. 



3049. Abibalus regulus, Dist. A. M. N. IL (8) iv, p. 521 (1909). 



Head, pronotum, and scutellum black ; anterior margin of 

 pronotum and a lateral fascia on each side of scutellum pale 



