LIMNEBIUM. 491 



585. Limnerium morosum, Cam. 



Liinneria niorosa, Cameron, Mauch. Mem. 1897, p. 30 ($). 



$ . A black species, with the legs and apices of the abdomiual 

 segments pale red. Head closely punctate, black, with the palpi 

 and mandibles white ; i'ace with dense white pubescence. An- 

 ii-nnce black throughout, with dense and very short pale pubescence. 

 Thorax immaculate, sliagreened, dull, with sparse short pale 

 j)ubescence ; metanotum with three distinct basal area?, remainder 

 obsolete, and its apex linely trans-aeiculate, Ahdomen black, \\ith 

 nil the segments broadly rut'o-testaceoiis laterally and apically ; 

 the first segment immaculate and shagreened, with its " base " 

 flat, nitidulous and very smooth ; venter fiavidous-testaceous. 

 Legs pale testaceous, with all the femora rufescent ; coxte black, 

 with the anterior pairs apically testaceous ; hind tarsi and apices 

 of their tibiae dark. Whuis hyaline ; tegulae white, stigma testa- 

 •ceoiis below, areolet distinctly petiolate. 



Lenijtli 5 millim. 



Ceylox : Triucomali (CoZ. Yerbury). 



586. Limnerium ceyloniciim. Cam. 



Liinneria ccylonica, Camerou,* Manch. Mem. 1897, p. 28 ((5*). 



S . A black species, with the abdomen broadly, and legs partly, 

 red. Head very closely and somewhat strongly punctate througli- 

 out ; face not sparsely white-pubescent ; mandibles, except 

 basally, ferruginous and the palpi testaceous, becoming apically 

 paler. AntenncB entirely black, with very short pubescence. 

 Thora.v alutaceous and innnaeulate, with dense white piiosity 

 throughout; metanotum gradually and subconvexl}-^ sloping; ])ro- 

 pleurae nitidulous and obliquely strigose, more strongly basally ; 

 mesopleursB punctate and above centrally trans-aciculate ; meta- 

 pleura) alutaceous. Ahdomen red, with the first seguient entirely 

 black, and the second also black, except the apex above and a mark 

 on the side which are rufous. Legs : front jiair fulvous, with the 

 apices of their black coxre white ; the intermediate femora apically, 

 and their tibia) basally, rufescent ; calcaria pale. Wings clear 

 hyaline, subinfumate apically ; stigma black ; areolet shortly 

 petiolate, with its lateral nervures slightly curved and its lower 

 margin sharply angled centrally. 



Length. 7-8 millim. 



Ceylox (Rothney). 



Type in the Oxford Museum. 



This male would be, perliaps, more correctly placed in the 

 genus Campoplex, where the entirely black hind legs ally it to 

 •C. lapponicus. 



