TRIPHLEPS. 



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Oil basal area reflecting the dark abdomen beneath ; body beneath 

 black, legs ocliraceous ; antennae more or less ochraceous pilose • 

 prouotuni strongly transversely impressed near middle 



Length 2-4 millim. 



Hah. Darjeeling ( Vienna Mus.). Sumatra {fide Poppius). 



Oi_ this and some other of the small species described by 

 i'oppius, I have merely described the characters of coloration, and 

 tor the structural cnaracters rely on the figures which have been 

 carefully portrayed by the artist under the microscope. 



3081. Triphleps puncticollis, Popp. Act. Soc. Sci. Fenn. xxxvii, no. 9, 

 p. 38 (1910). ' 



"Elongate, oval, shining, above with short depressed pale hairs • 

 black, the apex of head yellowish red, the hemelytra, autenute and 

 legs yellow, apex of cuueus somewhat darkened ; head including 

 eyes distinctly broader than long, ey(,'S large and prominent, front 

 very finely transversely wrinkled and also finely punctured in the 

 middle ; rostrum yellowish brown, extending to the anterior coxa? • 

 antennae moderately slender, second joint as long as front between 

 the eyes, last two joints rather more slender, slightly spindle-shaped, 

 equally long, rather shorter than second ; pronotum broad, slightly 

 narrowed towards the front, the sides first running straight,'theii 

 before apex rather strongly roundly narrowed, towards the' apex 

 inore broadly margined, basal margin broad, very slightly emar- 

 ginate, nearly twice broader than the median length, about half 

 broader than front margin, apical collar obsolete, the moderately 

 arched disk has a slight transverse impression rather behind the 

 middle, the calli slightly convex, smooth, remaining parts of 

 anterior half rather thickly and finely punctured, basal area thickly 

 and strongly punctured ; the whole scutellum thickly punctured, 

 rather more finely so than the basal area of pronotum'; hemelytra 

 strongly punctured, rather more sparingly so than the pronotum, 

 punctures of the clavus not stronger; membrane yellowish; cell- 

 hook on hind wings rising rather far from the ' vena decurrens.' 

 {Fojipius.) 



" Length 1"5 millim." 



Hah. Ceylon; Peradeniya (£/beZ, Vienna Mus.). 



" Nearest allied to T. laticollis, Eeur., but considerably smaller 

 and the legs and antenna) diff'erently coloured." {Poppius.) 



3082. Triphleps pluto, sp. n. 



Head, pronotum and scutellum shining black : corium and 

 clavus fuscous brown, the basal two-thirds"of costal margin dull 

 ochraceous, cuneal area piceous ; membrane pale piceous, the 

 margins very narrowly paler ; body beneath black ; legs ochraceous ; 

 antennae ochraceous, first and fourth joints somewhat piceous, first 

 joint not reaching apex of head, second longest and stoutest, third 

 and fourth subequal in length, fourth more slender than third • 

 head longer than breadth between the eyes, which are laro-e and 



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