MOKANTHIA. 145 



shell-like tiucl rounded ; head uncovered ; the globular elevations 



to discoidal area of elytra presenting a small central concave spot. 



Length, body 4 millim. ; to apex of elytra 5 millim. ; exp, 



pronotum 3 millim. 



Hah. Nilgiri Hills {Hampson).< j-tj — ^ 



915. Monunthia ? fasciata, Fieber, Ent. Monogr. p. 84, pi. vii, ff. 13-16 



(1844). 



Obscure yellow, moderately long, hood with a pointed projection ; 

 pronotum very convex, lateral areas raised, leaf-like ; head black, 

 spines on vertex yellow, the three anterior ones on and over each 

 other ; rostral sheath, sides of head, and the short tuberosities 

 before eyes yellow ; antennae whitish-yellow and very finely pilose, 

 a])ical joint brownish ; pronotum transversely convex, the raised 

 leaf-like marginal areas with quadrangular areolets, and set with 

 horizontal diverging bristles, middle ridge depressed on the hood, 

 lateral areas almost semicircularly raised to above the level of the 

 lateral angles ; areolated elytra curved outwards, undulately 

 narrowed posteriorly, at inner angle of central area a narrow 

 brown transverse fascia extending to outer margin, near apex an 

 oblique marginal spot ; sternum mostly whitish-yellow ; abdomen 

 brown or yellowish-brown ; legs whitish-yellow ; femora with 

 brown medial annulations ; tibiae with their apices brown. 



Length 4 millim. 



Hah. East India {Heifer). 



I only know this species from Fieber's figure and description. 

 It may probably represent a new genus. 



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Species of imcertaiti position. 

 Cymus hasiconiis, Motsch. Bull. Soc. JSat. Mosc. 1863, p. 90. 



Hah. Ceylon. 



This species is described under the name of a genus of Lygaeidae, 

 but placed in the " Tingide8".by Motschoulsky. I have quite 

 failed to identify it and its position is Enigmatical. 



TOL. II. 



