TYRAQUELLUS. 



471 



Genus TYRAaUELLUS, nov. 



Type, T. alhofasdatus, Motsch, 



Distribution. Ceylon. 



Elongate ; head moderately loDg and somewhat triangular 

 anteriorly ; eyes inserted near anterior margin of pronotum ; an- 

 tenna; with the first joint incrassate and about as long as head, 

 second about three times as long as first ; rostrum reaching the 

 posterior coxae ; pronotum nearly twice as broad at base as long, 

 with a very narrow anterior collar, behind which it is distinctly 

 constricted, gradually deflected from base, lateral margins concavely 

 sinuate; mesonotum a little exposed; scutellum small, subtriangular ; 

 hemelytra with their margins nearly straight and subparallel ; 

 membrane longly passing abdominal apex ; cuneus a little longer 

 than broad ; legs more or less mutilated in all the specimens 

 examined. 



1450 



Tyraquellus albofasciatus, Motsch. (Leptomerocoris ?) Bull. 

 Sac. Nat. Mosc. xxxvi (2) p. 8G (18(33). 



Black or piceous ; autenuje ochra- 

 ceous, first joint black with an apical 

 ochraceous annulation ; eyes granulate, 

 silvery-white ; corium and clavus 

 crossed by a transverse macular 

 fascia near apex of scutellum, and 

 corium with a large apical spot and 

 a smaller one near apex of clavus, 

 white ; cuneus sometimes castaneous ; 

 membrane fuliginous; colour semi- 

 opaque ; pronotal posterior angles 

 olDtusely subprominent ; anterior legs 

 with the coxa3 and femora piceous, 

 the tibiae and tarsi ochraceous, re- 

 maining legs mutilated in fovir speci- 

 mens examined. 

 Length 3 millim. 

 Hab. Ceylon; Yatiya,ntota (Green). 



1451. Tyraquellus maciilatus, sp. n. 



Piceous; corium with a lateral spot outside centre of clavus 

 and a larger spot at apex white ; membrane fuliginous ; first and 

 second joints of antenna) ochraceous, base of first jonit piceous, 

 remainder mutilated ; rostrum ochraceous ; femora piceous, tibi* 

 dark castaneous ; eyes with silvery-white lustre. 



Length 3^ millim. 



Hab. Ceylon; Yatiyantota (&reeu). 



Division BllYOCOllARIA. 

 Bryocoraria, Rent. Bih. Vet.-Ak. Handl. \\\, 1, p. 6 (1875); id. 

 Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1892, p. 39.3. 



Fig. o03. 

 Tyraquellin; alhofasciaf us. 



