nEMIOPTlCA. 381 



middle of the anterior nuvraiii ; auteiinal carinse moderately loug, 

 placed in the middle of the lace, on a raised vertical tubercle \\hicli 

 is longer than broad, the carina) somewhat close together and 

 slightly convergent posteriorly. Thorax entirely unarmed and the 

 form as given in the characters of the genus ; legs robust, tibiEe 

 cylindrical, smooth, constricted for a third of their length from base. 

 Node of the pedicel cuneate, the upper margin very thin and arched, 

 bearing at its lateral angles an acute tooth ; abdomen globose. 



2 . Similar to the ^ ; larger ; wings hyaline with a brownish 

 tint ; pronotum short, vertical ; mesonotum ample, convex ; 

 scutellum transverse, very convex and gibbous ; postscutellum 

 sunk in a deep wide furrow between the scutellum and the 

 metanotum ; this last short, gibbous above, vertically truncate 

 posteriorly. 



Length, ^ 6"7 ; $ 8 mm. 



Hab. Ceylon ( Yerhuri/ c^- Green). 



449. Hemioptica pubescens, Mai/r (Polyrhacliis), Ver//. -^oul.-bot. 

 Ges. Wien. xxviii (1878), p. (557, ^ . 

 Polvrhachis pube.-cens, Forel, Jour. Bomb. X. H. Soc. viii (1893), 

 pp. 17 & 21,^ S. 



^ . Resembles Polyrliachls striata, Mayr, but is much smaller 

 and more slender. Black, covered with a fine sericeous silvery 

 pubescence as in Foljjrhachis tUnalis, Smith, and more s])arsely 

 witli short erect hairs ; head, thorax and abdomen Huely punctured, 

 opaque. Head short, as broad posteriorly as in front, the cheeks 

 stx'aight, not convex, the truncation of the eyes not so marked as 

 in H. scissa, Roger ; clypeus convex, with a low medial tubercle at 

 base, anteriorly arched, not emarginate ; antennal carinas remark- 

 ably prominent, viewed from the side they form projecting lunate 



Fig. 124. — Hi/niopfica])uhcsr-('ii.<, ^. 



laminae. Thorax anteriorly as broad as the head, posteriorly 

 narrowed, flat or slightly convex above and margined on each side 

 along its whole length ; prouotal spines slender, acute, pointing 

 divei'gently forward, basal portion of metanotum posteriorly trans- 

 versely margined, the lateral angles with short erect points, apical 

 portion concave ; legs slender, tibia) cylindrical and without spines. 

 Node of pedicel high, biconvex, surmounted at the lateral angles 

 with short erect spines, the upper margin of the node Ijetween 

 the two spines straight, the sides of the node with a lateral acute 

 tooth very short and placed low down on the node ; abdomen 

 "lobose. 



