308 APPBNDIX.^ANTHOCOKID^. 



prominent ; pronotum about twice as broad at base as median 

 length, base moderately concave, lateral margins oblique, slightly 

 rounded, anterior collar moderately distinct and levigate, trans- 

 versely impressed beliind middle, the posterior area finely punctate ; 

 scutellum transversely gibbous at base, remaining area depressed, 

 finely transversely wrinkled and punctate ; bemelytra distinctly 

 and somewhat palely pilose, clavus and corium finely punctate ; 

 rostrum slightly passing the anterior coxae, ochraceous, the basal 

 joint piceous. 



Length 2| millim. 



Hah. Calcutta. 



Under leaf space of bamboo {Annmulalc). 



Genus BLAPTOSTETHUS. 



Blaptostethus, Fieb. Wien. etit. Monatschr. iv, p. 265 (1860) ; Rent. 

 Act Soc. Set. Fenn. xiv, pp. 611 & 666 (1885). 



Type, B. piceus, Fieb. 



Distribution. Ceylon ; Malay Archipelago. 



" Body almost elongate, shining, moderately pubescent ; head 

 shortly prolonged behind eyes into a parallel-sided glabrous neck ; 

 eyes large, as laterally seen occupying the whole altitude of the 

 head and longer than that altitude ; rostrum long, first joint 

 about half the length of the head, second joint almost more than 

 two and a half times longer ; antennae with the first joint reaching 

 apex of head, second distinctly thickened towards apex, third 

 about half the length of second ; pronotum transverse, trapeziform, 

 lateral margins straight, but suddenly rounded a little behind 

 apex, margins acute, anterior annulation absent or obsolete, 

 posterior angles acute, base strongly sinuate, anterior part of 

 disk with no furrow, posterior half strongly depressed ; bemelytra 

 with the embolium very straitened ; membrane with only external 

 vein distinguishable ; metasternum trianugular, convex ; anterior 

 femora moderately thickened, beneath at middle with two obsolete 

 tubercles, and behind middle (nearer apex) armed with two acute 

 teeth, the first larger." (Reuter.) 



I have not quoted Renter's reference to the hamus in the cell 

 of the wings, for, as Champion remarks on this character in the 

 genus Scoloposcelis, which is included, owing to the supposed 

 absence of the hamus, in Renter's division Xylocoraria, " in the 

 American species, as well as in one of the European forms, the 

 hamus is often present." This structure is therefore of little 

 generic importance. 



3083. Blaptostethus ceylanicus, Popp. Act. Soc Sci. Ferm. xxxvii, 

 no. 9, p. 40 (1909). 



Head, pronotum and scutellum shining black ; apex of costal 

 area to corium and the cuneus black, more opaque ; clavus and 

 corium piceous brown, about basal half of costal margin ochraceous ; 

 membrane brownish ochraceous, the basal area reflectiiig tlie dark 



