LAMPRODEMA. 



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796. Tropistethus indicus, l^all. (Aphanus) Lht Hem. ii, p. 559 



(1852) ; Dist. A. M. N. H. (7) viii, p. 497 

 (1901). 



Head, thorax and sciitellum pitchy- 

 black ; corium brownish-testaceous, punc- 

 tured, pubescent, with a triangular 

 brown spot at the inner apical angle ; 

 membrane brownish : body beneath pitchy ; 

 legs pale yellow ; rostrum pale yellow ; 

 antennae testaceous with the last joint yellow. 

 {Dallas.) 



Length 4 millim. 

 Fig. 53. Hah. " North India " {Caj:,t. Boys). 



Tropistethus indicus. 



Genus LAMPRODEMA. 



Lfimpi'odema, Fieber, Eur. Hem. pp. 48 & 184 (1861); Stal, Of v. 

 Vet.-Ali. Fork. 1872, no. 7, p. 53. 



Type, L. maura, Fabr., a Palaearctic species. 



Distribution. Palaearctic, Oriental, Australasian, and Neotropical 

 Regions. 



Pronotum not depressed postei-iorly, strongly transverse ; clavus 

 somewhat distinctly punctate in four longitudinal series ; second 

 joint of rostrum very slightly longer than third joint. 



797. Lamprodematineoides.DiVi'. A. M. N. H. (7) viii, p. 500 (1901). 



Dark castaneous ; head, anterior half of pronotum aud scu- 

 tellum black ; antennae, posterior margin and 

 apical angles of pronotum, basal margins of 

 corium, tibiae, tarsi and apices of femora 

 brownish ochraceous ; apical joint of antennae 

 infuscated ; head, anterior area of pronotum 

 and the scutellum finely punctate ; posterior 

 area of the pronotum and the corium coarsely 

 punctate ; membrane somewhat rudimentary, 

 obscure greyish ; apex of exposed abdomen 

 black. 



Length 2| millim. 

 Hah. Ceylon {Lewis). 

 I have placed this species in the genus 

 Lamprodema, tliough the characters of the head including eyes 

 beiug much narrower than the anterior margin of the pronotum, 

 combined with the rudimentary membrane, almost warrant the 

 foundation of a new genus for its reception. 



Fig. 54. — Lampro- 

 dema tineoides. 



