PACHYGKONTHA. 



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area, and oue at each posterior angle ; scutellum with the base 

 black and a ceutral, basal, lunate, levigate, pale fascia, continued 

 in a straight line to apex, which is similarly levigate ; inner claval 

 margin and apex of clavus piceous ; cerium with the punctures 

 arranged in longitudinal series, its apex and a somewhat large spot 

 at inner angle piceous ; membrane with two converging piceous 

 fascise from base to apex ; abdomen beneath pale, impunctate ; 



Fig. 30. — Tachygrontha lewisi. ■ 



a lateral fascia on each side from head to apex of abdomen, a 

 narrow central macular fascia to abdomen, and margins of the anal 

 appendage black. • 



Antennte with the second and third joints subequal in length, 

 the first longest, fourth shortest. Eyes projecting a little beyond 

 anterior margin of pronotum. 



Length 8 millim. 



Hah. Ceylon {Lewis Sj- Green). 



Beaten from tufts of Cyi^erus sp. {Green). 



752. Pachygrontha nigrovittata, Stal, Ofc. Vet.-AA: Fork. 1870, 

 p. 662. 



Ochraceous ; above with head beneath and sternum thickly 

 darkly punctate, the punctures at the lateral margins of the pro- 

 notum more dense, and giving a dark fasciate-like appearance ; 

 apical margin of the corium with three small dark spots, one at 

 inner angle, one medial, and the other at apical angle : disks of 

 meso- and metasterna, a sublateral fascia, and apical discal fascia 

 to abdomen black ; legs punctured with black ; basal joint of 

 antennae about as long as head and pronotum together ; a central 

 levigate line to pronotum and scutellum. 



Length 10 to 10| milhm. 



Hab. Assam : Sibsagar {Peal). Ceylon (Lewis) ; Peradeniya 

 {Green). Tenasserim {Coll. Dist.). — Philippines. 



