RHYNCHOTA INDICA (HKTEROPTERA). 



105 



Dr. Montandon sent me a single specimen of this 'beautiful 

 species. 



Fara. BERYTID^. 



Metacanthus hihamatus, Dist., Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. liii. 



p. 360 (1909). 

 Hah. Ceylon. 



Metacanthus bihamatus. 



I take the present opportunity to figure this species. By the 

 long hooked spines to the pronotum it is somewhat aberrant to 

 the genus. 



Gen. Taprobanus {ante, p. 24). 



Although carefully shown in the sectional figure of the typi- 

 cal species {ante, p. 25), the generic diagnosis did not refer to 

 the character of a curved, upwardly directed, slender process on 

 each side of the stex'num between the intermediate and posterior 

 coxa. 



Fam. LYG^ID^. 



Macropes rufipes, sp. n. 

 Head, pronotum, and scutellum black ; cerium ochraceous, moro 

 or less streaked with piceous ; inembrane very pale ochraceous with 

 the veins darker ; body beneath black, the legs reddish-ochraceous ; 

 antennce black, the first, second, and third joints more or less ocbra- 

 ceous, the apices of tbe second and third joints distinctly clavate and 

 black at apices ; pronotum broadly distinctly transversely impressed 

 a little before base, before tliis a little convex and irregularly im- 

 pressed, the lateral margins moderately rounded, the basal margin 

 moderately concave, the whole very finely punctate ; membrane 

 extending to a little beyond the middle of tbe abdomen ; connexivum 

 dull ochraceous ; abdomen above black, finely ochraceously pilose ; 

 body beneath black, very finely ochraceously pilose. Long. 7 to 

 8 millim. 



