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short and broad, pedunculate at base; legs long and slender, basal 
and apical joints of tarsi about equally long, tibize distinctly longer 
than the femora. 
This genus may be placed in the Division Myrmecophyaria, 
Reut. 
Rhodoclia convictionis, sp. n. 
Head, pronotum, scutellum, and hemelytra piceous-brown ; head 
with a pale ochraceous line extending centrally and perpendicularly 
for a short distance from base, and then curved and diverging on each 
side to the anterior margins of eyes ; scutellum with a central pale 
longitudinal line; abdomen greyish ochraceous ; head beneath, ster- 
num, rostrum, and legs pale brownish ochraceous ; the pedunculate 
base of abdomen centrally piceous, with the lateral margins greyish ; 
legs and antenne thinly spinously hirsute, the head also margined 
with pale long hairs. Long. 3 6 to 8, 2? 54 to 6 millim. 
Hab. Nilgiri Hills; Barwood Estate (H. Leslie Andrews). 
ZARATUS, gen. Nov. 
Head subtriangular, obliquely deflected in front of eyes, mode- 
rately centrally longitudinally suleate on disk, eyes of moderate size 
but alittle projecting beyond the anterior margin of the pronotum ; 
antenns with the first joint nearly as long as head, second joint 
more than twice as long as first, third longer than first, fourth muti- 
lated; rostrum not reaching the anterior cox, first joint about 
reaching base of head; pronotum elongate, but a little broader at 
base than long, transversely constricted a little before anterior mar- 
gin, posteriorly convexly tumid, anterior and posterior margins trun- 
cate, the lateral margins narrowing to apex, angularly sinuate at the 
transverse constriction, thence straight to anterior margin ; scutellum 
small, subtriangular ; clavus long, almost reaching to base of cuneus ; 
corium with the lateral margins strongly concavely sinuate, broadly 
widened at the cuneal area; membrane slightly passing the abdomi- 
nal apex ; abdomen broad, globose, constricted at base ; legs of mode- 
rate length, the posterior tarsi mutilated. 
Allied to the Neotropical genus Zosippus, Dist., from which 
it principally differs by the unarmed scutellum. 
Zaratus repandus, sp.n. 
Head, pronotum, and scutellum pale ecinnamon-brown; scutellum 
with an obscure pale concave line and a small basal spot; corium 
pale cinnamon-brown, an oblique basal spot on each side, which are 
almost connected with a transverse spot beyond apex of scutellum, 
and a transverse concave fascia on each side before cuneus whitish, 
the cuneal suture more obscurely whitish ; membrane black, with an 
obscure pale transverse fascia near base; legs pale cinnamon-brown, 
apices of femora and about apical thirds of tibia and the tarsi pale 
stramineous, apices of tarsi black (posterior tarsi mutilated) ; antenne 
pale ochraceous, third joint, excluding base, black ; body beneath im- 
perfectly seen in carded specimens. Long. 4 millim. 
Hab. Nilgiri Hills; Barwood Estate (H. Leslie Andrews). 
