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third joint is very pale green without any black dots, the fourth joint 

 is reddish-brown with a broad pale basal band. The anterior area of the 

 pronotiim, besides having four black dots, has also a distinct black, 

 transverse, irregular fascia. The membrane is shining hyaline, but 

 appears to be fuscous, when at rest, on the dark dorsal surface of the 

 abdomen. 



Recorded only from Ceylon. 



Eusthetus insularis, sp. no v. 



Described from a single specimen taken at Barkuda on 20-vii-1914. 



Head black with the lateral lobes, apex of central lobe, an irregular 

 transverse band between eyes, a rather broad band bordering the inner 

 margins of the eyes and extending posteriorly to the basal margin of 

 the head, a linear longitudinal streak between the ocelli and a somewhat 

 broad, medially interrupted fascia on each side of the head, below the 

 antennae and the eyes, brownish ochraceous. Antennae light brown 

 with the apices of the first, second and third joints narrowly piceous ; 

 first and third joints subequal in length, second shortest, about half 

 the length of the fourth, which is longest ; some short stiff black bristles 

 on the first, second and third joints. Underside of head with a broad 

 central, longitudinal, shining black fascia. Rostrum w4th the basal 

 joint incrassate, black, the remaining joints brown, with the apical half 

 of the last joint piceous. Rostrum reaching the middle of the meso- 

 notum. 



Pronotum brown with three discal, longitudinal, piceous bands, 

 of which the central is broadest, and most distinct. Anterior area with 

 a shallow transverse depression a little behind anterior margin, covered 

 with short silky hairs and with a short, longitudinal, ochraceous line ; 

 posterior area slightly raised, with numerous, small, black punctures 

 on disk. Anterior angles rounded, posterior angles acute ; posterior 

 margin concavely sinuate before scutellum, obliquely ascending at the 

 sides. Scutellum black, with a central longitudinal line and the apex 

 broadly luteous ; disk with some rather long, decumbent hairs. 

 Hemelytra very dark brown, thickly punctured with black ; a few linear 

 spots on disk of corium a little beyond middle, luteous ; costal margin 

 paler ; membrane fuscous, thickly speckled with greyish-white. 



Underside shining black, clothed with very fine silvery hairs, which 

 are most dense on the sides of the sternum ; a large patch on each lateral 

 area of the prosternum, the apices of the coxal cavities, a spot on the 

 anterior margin of the mesosternum, the lateral and basal margins of the 

 raetasternum, a broad oblique lateral fascia on each side of the third 

 abdominal segment and a small spot at the external basal angle of the 

 fourth segment, luteous. Abdomen above black, with a broad longi- 

 tudinal reddish ochraceous band extending from the basal segment 

 to the apex of the fifth segment, the apical margin of the fifth segment 

 narrowly and the centre of the remaining segments luteous ; connexivum 

 black and luteous alternately, the luteous markings less distinct on the 

 underside of the fifth and posterior segments. 



Legs ochraceous above, thickly mottled with black, underside of 

 femora blackish ; apices of tibiae and tarsi black.; intermediate and 



