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mutilated iu specimen described ; membrane pale brownish 



beneath and legs veiy 



Fig. 67. — Lethceiii 



Hah. Assam 



body- 

 dark 

 castaneous ; rostrum and tarsi 

 brownish - ochraceous. Head 

 opaque, impunctate ; pronotum 

 thickly punctate, with two 

 transverse impressions (one 

 angulated near anterior margin, 

 the other straight at about 

 one-third from apex) ; scutel- 

 lum thickly punctate ; corium 

 more sparingly punctate, its 

 lateral margin for more than 

 half from base brownish -ochra- 

 ceous and levigate. 

 Length 11 millim. 

 Nfiga Hills (Doherty). 



823. Lethseus indicus, Ball. List Hem. n, p. 558 (1852). 



Head, pronotum and scutellum black ; corium and body beneath 

 dark castaneous ; corium with a small luteous spot a little beyond 

 the middle of the claval margin, a similar spot near centre of 

 apical margin ; membrane pale fuliginous ; femora castaneous : 

 tibiae brownish-ochraceous ; tarsi luteous ; antennae dull ochraceous; 

 pronotum, excluding anterior disk, coarsely punctate ; sternum 

 thickly but less coarsely punctate ; rostrum ochraceous, basal joint 

 castaneous, extreme apex piceous. 



Length 8 millim. 



Hab. North Bengal {Campbell, Brit. Mus.). Burma ; Rangoon, 

 Palon {Fea). 



Apparently a variable species ; in some specimens there are 

 two pale spots on the clavus ; in others the antennae are pale 

 castaneous. 



B. Margins of pronotum narrowly ochraceous. 

 a. Corium ivitliout distinct subapical macidar patch. 



824. Lethaeus extremus. Walk. (Rhvparochromus) Cat. Het. v, p. 99 

 (1872) ; Dist. A. M. N. H. (7) viii, p. 506 (1901). 

 Ehyparochromus greeni, Kirby, J. Linn. Sac, Zool. xxiv, p. 100 

 (1891). 



Head, pronotum and scutellum piceous, anterior lobe of pro- 

 notum more or less obscurely castaneous and very coarsely 

 punctate, lateral and anterior margins of pronotum narrowly 

 obscure ochi'aceous ; corium castaneous, coarsely punctate, lateral 

 and apical margins and some parts of the venation ochraceous ; 

 scutellum distinctly but somewhat sparingly punctate ; membrane 

 pale fuliginous : body beneath and legs castaneous, tibiae and tarsi 



