liAC'HNOPHORUS. 69 



head triangular, with eyes about equal in width to anterior margin 

 of pronotum ; ocelli placed close to anterior pronotal margin ; 

 rostrum extending to middle of mesosternum, first joint shorter 

 than head ; anteunse with the first joint passing apex of head, 

 fourth joint as long as the second or longer ; pronotum trans- 

 verse, anteriorly slightly narrowed, anterior margin sinuate, 

 lateral margins laminate and suberect and rounded at apices, 

 transverse impression nearer posterior than anterior margin ; 

 scutellum elongately triangular ; anterior femora incrassate, 

 distinctly spined beneath near apices, two of the spines usually 

 large. 



a. Antennal joints moderately/ uniform; third and four tli joints 

 not prominently incrassate. 



792. Lachnophorus singalensis, Dohm (Rhyparocliromus), Stett. 



ent. Zeit. xxi, p. 404 (1860). 

 Rhyparochromus semilucens, Walk. Cat. Het. v, p. 99 (1872). 

 Lachnophorus guttulatus, Reut. Ent, Tidskr. viii, p. 99 (1887). 

 Rhyparochromus convelatus, Dist. A. M. N. H. (7) viii, p. 485 



(1901). 



Head, antennae, pronotum, scutellum, rostrum, body beneath 

 and legs piceous ; lateral margins of pronotum, coxae, posterior 

 margin of metasternum, exti'eme bases of 

 tibiae and the tarsi ochraceous ; corium 

 ochraceous with lineate brown punctures, 

 apical half piceous, containing a transverse 

 greyish-white fascia ; membrane piceous, its 

 apical half irrorated with pale brownish. 

 Antennae moderately robust, second, third and 

 fourth joints almost subequal in length ; 

 pronotum with a distinct transverse im- 

 pression, anterior lobe moderately convex, 

 posterior lobe somewhat thickly punctate ; 

 scutellum long, finely punctate, with a central 

 carinate line, obsolete on basal half ; lateral 

 Fig. 52.— iac/mo^j/wrMs margins of head and pronotum distinctly 

 singalensis. longly pilose. In some specimens, as in the 



form described by Walker as semilucens, the 

 body beneath is pale castaneous. 

 Lengtii 5 to 8 millim. 



Hah. Bombay {Coll. Dist.) ; Bor Ghat (Dixon). Ceylon (Jide 

 Dohm). — Madagascar {fide Reut.). 



Dr. Bergroth kindly forwarded me a Bombay specimen which 

 he had compared and identified with Renter's Madagascar type. 



793. Lachnophorus noctis, sp. n. 



Piceous ; apical joint of antennae greyishly pilose ; posterior 

 lobe of pronotum and veins of corium obsoletely castaneous ; legs 



