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LYGtEID^. 



scutellum slightlj'^ excavated, front area inipimctate and shining, 

 rather strongly convex, not margined, broadest about middle, 

 in front with a very short detached collar ; scutellum distinctly 

 longer than broad ; anterior femora very strongly incrassate, armed 

 beneath with spinules, especially in the terminal half: front tibiae 

 considerably shorter than the femora, strongly curved, towards 

 the apex rather compressed and widened, and on the lower side 

 just before apex with one long spur-like spine, middle femora 

 slender, below with numerous short spinules arranged in rows ; 

 first joint of hind tarsi twice as long as two other joints together ; 

 rostrum extending beyond middle coxse, first joint longer than 

 head ; first joint of antenna? extending considerably beyond apex 

 of head, second joint longer than third. 



JN'early allied to Fontejus, Stfd, and Eucosmetus, Bergr. 



779. Fontejanus wasmanni, Bredd. Soc Entomol. xviii, p. 75 (1903). 



Shining black or piceous-black ; sternum, rostrum, legs and 

 antennae dull rusty-brown or dirty brownish-yellow ; pronotuiu 

 and middle upperside of anterior femora dark pitchy-brown ; 

 posterior area of pronotum rusty-brown, with darker punctuation 

 and blackish lateral angles ; hemelytra whitish with scattei'ed 

 black dots ; base of clavus, some suffused markings on basal half 

 of corium and its apical angle black ; a dirty reddish-brown 

 transverse band running through behind the middle of corium ; 

 membrane dark fuliginous ; antennal joints three and four (except- 

 ing base) and apices of anterior tibiae blackish-brown. 



S . Brachypterous, shining ; head above moderately and thickly 

 punctured, anterior area of pronotum about three and a half times 

 as long as the hinder area in the middle ; scutellum with lustre, 

 hirsute, indistinctly punctured ; hemelytra \\ith a short, almost 

 semicircular membrane extendiiag to the base of the fifth abdominal 

 segment, the distinctly separated clavus with a continuous row of 

 dots ; second joint of antennae about twice as long as the first 

 and hardly longer than the fourth, tljird joint about two-thirds as 

 long as second joint ; first and second joints of rostrum about 

 equally long, third joint about two-thirds as long as second, fourth 

 joint much the shortest. 



Length 4| millim. 



Hah. Khandala, near Bombay {Jide Breddin). 



Division llHYPABOCHlt OMARIA. 



PJiyparochromaria, Stdl, En. Hem. \\, p. 142 (1874). 



Pronotum \^ ithout, or very seldom \\\i\i, an anterior collar ; 

 seldom constricted behind the middle, or if so constricted then 

 with its margins carinate ; lateral margins of the pronotum 

 carinate, but not or very shghtly laminately ampliated. 



