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LYG^ID.E, 



Genus ENTISBERUS. 



Entisberus, Dist. A. M. N. H. (7) xi, p. 74 (1903). 



Type, E. archetypus, Dist. 



Distrihution. Ceylon. 



Subelongate ; head triangular, narrowly produced anteriorly, 

 where it is bicarinate ; eyes moderately large and prominent, 

 somewhat exserted, their posterior margins almost touching the 

 anterior margin of the pronotum ; antennse robust, apical joint 

 thickened, third joint about as long as first ; rostrum almost 

 reaching the intermediate coxfe, basal joint a little shorter than 

 head ; pronotum with the posterior lobe much wider than the 

 anterior lobe, central constriction well defined, anterior lobe 

 subglobose, posterior angles subprominent and obtusely subacute, 

 their basal margins obliquely excavate ; scutellum with a discal 

 cruciform elevation ; corium extending to more than half the 

 length of abdomen, the apical margin slightly rounded ; membrane 

 slightly passing the apex of abdomen ; femora unarmed. 



788. Entisberus archetypus, Dist. A. M. N. H. (7) xi, p. 74 (1903). 



Head, anterior lobe of pronotum and body beneath black ; 

 posterior lobe of pronotum and corium ochraceous, punctured 

 with brown, the first thickly punctate, the corium with the 



clavus, claval margin, irregular 

 transverse fascia and apex 

 thickly puuctare, enclosing a 

 small pale spot at inner angle and 

 another on lateral margin a little 

 before apex : scutellum piceous, 

 coarsely punctate, the cruciform 

 carination ochraceous ; mem- 

 brane hyaline ; antennae, ros- 

 trum and legs pale stramineous, 

 apical joint of antennse roseate : 

 coxae black ; lateral angles of 

 metasternum and anal segment 

 castaneous : body beneath 

 sparingly and finely greyishly ])ilose. Antennse with the first 

 joint a little thickened, second joint slender, about as long or a 

 little longer than the first, third shorter than second, thickened 

 towards apex, fourth shortest, stoutest, globose. 

 Length 3 millim. 

 Hah. Ceylon ; Peradeniya {Green). 



G-enus LEMNIUS, no v. 



Type, L. ovatns, Dist. 



Distrihution. Ceylon. 



Elongate, ovate; head triangular, narrovvly produced anteriorly; 

 antennae with the first joint passing the apex of the head, a little 

 thickened, second longest, fourth not thickened ; rostrum reaching 

 posterior coxae, first joint not extending to base of head ; pronotum 

 narrow^ed from base to apex, transversely constricted, the disk 



48. — Entisberus archefi/pits. 



