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of jungle near felled timber. Fliglit sustained ; three or four 

 insects found frequently playing together like common flies in a 

 room, or like Ephemeridne." 



13. Middle and posterior lohes of pronotum (dmost equally wide. 



992. Henicocephalus robustus, sp. n. 



Head and pronotum pale castaneous ; hemelytra dark fuscous, 

 the base and basal area more or less lutescent ; body beneath 

 fuscous-brown ; legs oehraceous ; antennae fuscous, apex of third 

 and whole fourth joint, except the extreme base, oehraceous ; 

 second joint longest, third joint longer than fourth ; posterior 

 lobe of head shorter than anterior lobe, the two lobes together 

 about as long as the pronotum ; anterior tarsi armed with two 

 apical claws. 



Length 7 to 8 millim. 



Hah. Cevlon ; Pundaluoya {Green). Burma; Karenuee {Coll. 

 Dist.). 



993. Henicocephalus basalis, Westic. (EDicocephalus) Tr. E. S. 

 ii, p. 23 (1837). 

 Heuicocephahis ostentus, Dist. Ann. Soc. JE?it. Belt/, xlvli, p. 52 

 (1903). 



Piceous, finely greyishly pilose ; head behind eyes, extreme 

 posterior mai'gin of pronotum, clavus (excluding apex), basal 

 augles and lateral margius of hemelytra, coxje, bases and apices of 

 femora, tibise and tarsi, and posterior margin of prosternum oehra- 

 ceous ; second joint of antenuce a little longest, third joint slightly 

 longer than fourth ; middle lobe of pronotum sculptured, a little 

 longer than the posterior lobe, which is centrally obscurely sulcate 

 and centrally sinuate in front of the scutellum ; hemelytra slightly 

 ^^■idened posteriorly : anterior tibia? with two apical claws. 



Length 8 millim. 



Hedj. Bengal {Oxford J\his.). Bombay ; Bor Ghat {Dixon). 

 Coromandel {Maindron). Burma ; Teinzo {Fea). 



I am indebted to Prof. Poulton for allowiug Die an opportunity 

 to inspect the type of this species. From AVestwood's description 

 alone I had failed to identify it, and had redescribed it. 



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