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LYG^ID^E. 



black ; corium pale reddish, with a very small sublateral spot near 



base, a median lateral spot and 

 -,. ,,-- the apical area very pale luteous ; 



a black linear lateral spot between 

 /n It ^Mi A *^® P^^^ mediau spot and apical 



</] f ^^L .J ^^'^^ ^"^^ ^ subapical angulate 



spot black ; membrane with an 

 apical, rounded, very pale luteous 

 spot; apex of anterior femora 

 and the whole of the anterior 

 tibise and tarsi, basal halves of 

 the intermediate and posterior 

 femora and the tarsi, and central 

 base of head beneath ochraceous; 

 first joint of antennae black, with 

 its base luteous, remaining joints 

 mutilated. Head and posterior 

 lobe (if pronotum coarsely punc- 

 tate ; clavus and claval margin linearly punctate ; anterior tibiae 

 curved, their apices moderately dilated and armed with two strong 

 spines beneath. 

 Length 6| millim. 

 Mab. Assam ; Margherita (Ind. Mus. 4" Coll. Dist.). 



Fig. 39. — Eticosmetus hisiynls. 



b. Anterior tibia' in the male obscurely spined beneath. 



777. Eucosmetus incisus, Walk. (Rhypaiochromus) Cat. Het. v, 

 p. 100 (1872) ; Dist. A. M. N. H. (7) viii, p. 483 (1901). 



Black, finely pilose, posterior lobe of pronotum somewhat longly 

 greyishly pilose ; corium, trochanters, bases of femora, extreme 

 apices of anterior femora, bases of anterior tibiae and posterior 

 margin of metasternum luteous ; clavus piceous, with two medial 

 linear ochraceous spots ; extreme base, an oblique transverse fascia 

 near middle, the apical angle and apical margin of corium black ; 

 corium (excluding lateral margin) distinctly punctate ; anterior 

 femora incrassate, strongly spined beneath ; anterior tibiae in male 

 with four very short spines on inner margin of apical half. 



Length 7 millim. 



Hab. Assam; Margherita. Ceylon {Thwaites ; Green). 



Genus CARIDOPS. 

 Caridops, Bergr. Bev. cTEnt. xiii, p. 158 (1894). 



Type, 0. gibba, Bergr. 



Distribution. British India. 



Head more or less triangular; eyes longly exserted, stylate ; 

 pronotum with the anterior lobe strongly globose, twice as long 

 as posterior lobe, transverse incision profound, lateral angles sub- 



