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Family HEBRIDvE. 



A family cousisting of very small insects, in which tlie body 

 beneatli is clothed with a silvery velvety pubescence and the 

 antennae are five-jointed. Only three genera are at present known, 

 and the number of recorded species is small ; but this is perhaps 

 more due to our want of knowledge, through imperfect collecting, 

 than to a real paucity of the insects. 



One genus only is at present known in British India. 



Genus HEBRUS. 

 Hebrus, Curtis. Eat. May. i. p. 198 (1833) ; Aimj. t-V Serv. Hem, 

 p. 294 (1843) ; Fieb. Em: Hem. pp. 32 & 104 (1861) ; Champ. 

 ^ Biol. Centr.-Amer., Rhynch. ii, p. 117 (1898). 

 • Naeogasus, Lap. Ess. Hem. p. 34 (1832). 



Type, H. pusillus, Fall., a Palaearctic species. 



Distribution. Probably widely and generally distributed. As 

 stated by Champion, the Palaearctic type has five-jointed antennae, 

 but Laporte and some other autliors give the antennae as four- 

 jointed, the divisions between the fourth and fifth joints being 

 very obscui'e ; other writers, as Douglas and Scott, enumerate 

 six joints, a minute jointlet at the base of the third being 

 regarded by them as a true joint. The ventral sutures are some- 

 times indistinct or obsolete ; tarsi of two joints. 



If a strict rule of priority were applied to this genus, it would 

 be necessary to use Laporte's name ; but Hebrus has been em- 

 ployed by all acknowledged authorities, and nothing could be 

 gained, but much obscurity caused, by altering the name, a 

 course which would also necessitate a fresh name for the family. 



We now describe the first species known from British India. 



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53. Hebrus orientalis, sp. n. 



Perru<Tinous-brown ; corium dull stramineous, with its apical 

 area piceous ; membrane fuscous, with 

 four discal obscure greyish spots : an- 

 tennae, legs, connexivum, and lateral 

 margins of abdomen beneath oehraceous; 

 apices of the femora pale castaneous ; 

 legs coarsely granulate; head finely sul- 

 cate between the eyes; first joint of 

 antennae about as long as head, longer 

 but not twice as long as second ; pro- 

 notura with the lateral angles sub- 

 prominent, inwardly distinctly sulcately 

 impressed ; scutellum with the apex 

 broadly, angularly incised ; under sur- 



^ig- i;^l- face imperfectly seen owing to specimens 



Hebrus orientalis. , . ' i i ° *■ 



being carded. 



Length 2k millim. 



Hab. Burma ; Karennee (Fea). 



