450 CAPSiDa;. 



causes them to wither. It also attacks Verbena and Tropa^olum 

 plants in the bungalow gardens. My correspondent reports that 

 a bed of Iropcmlmn was completely ruined by the insects. I have 

 found the egg embedded in the young stems of Verbena plants 

 and in succulent shoots of tea. The egg is cylindrical, rounded 

 at posterior extremity ; it is embedded in a slightly diagonal 

 position, the truncate extremity being flush with the surface of 

 the plant. Length 0-90 milHm." 



1419. LygUS viridanus, Motsch. (Deraeocoris) Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 



xxxvi (2) p. 83 (1863). 



Pale greenish ; head, antennae, rostrum, body beneath and legs 

 pale ochraceous ; apex of second joint and the third and fourth 

 joints of antennae, eyes, and apices of tarsi black : membrane 

 pale greeuish-browu ; tibiae and tarsi less ochraceous and more 

 virescent than the femora ; pronotum finely punctate. 



Var. All the ochraceous markings replaced by a much more 

 greenish tinge, giving the insect a somewhat unicolorous appearance. 



Length 5 millim. 



Hab. Ceylon {Lewis Sf Green). 



I have received both the typical and varietal forms from 

 Ceylon. 



1420. LygUS pabens, sp. n. 



Ochraceous ; lateral marginal areas of the corium much ])aler 

 in hue ; clavus suffused with castaneous, two curved fuscous lines, 

 united posteriorly, on posterior disk of corium ; membrane very 

 pale fuliginous, infuscated on apical area; antennae piceous, second 

 joint, excluding apex, ochraceous ; pi'onotum veiy finely punctate. 



Var. a. Scutellum, a broad transverse fascia at apex of corium, 

 clavus, and a small spot at apex of cuneus piceous or black ; first 

 joint of antennae ochraceous. 



Length 3| to 4 millim. 



Hah. Ceylon; Pundaluoya (G'ywn). 



B. Pronotum ivith two obscure darTc spots. 



1421. LygUS immitis, sp. u. 



Greenish-ochraceous, thickly finely pilose ; eyes and a small 

 spot at apex of cuneus black ; pronotum with the disk more palely 

 virescent, with two very obscure central linear pale fuscous spots 

 near base ; scutellum with two central pale fuscous linear lines, 

 diverging posteriorly ; clavus and corium irregularly mottled with 

 pale fuscous ; membrane fuliginous, with pale virescent suffusions ; 

 posterior femora with pale brownish apical annulatious ; apex of 

 rostrum and apices of tarsus piceous. 



Length 4g to 5 millim. 



Hah. Ceylon (Lewis) ; Pundaluoya (Green). 



