THAUMASTOMIKIS. 473 



Genus THAUMASTOMIKIS. 



Tliaiimastomiris, Kirl;. J. Bomb. N. II. Soc. xiv, p. 56 (1902). 



Type, T. sanguinalis, Kirk. 



Distribution. Ce_ylon. 



Elongately ovate ; head vertically depressed in front o£ eyes 

 (transverse as seen from above), whicli are large, almost touching, 

 but projecting beyond the anterior margin of the pronotum, 

 broadly transversely sulcate near basal margin ; antennae with 

 first joint longer than head, second a little longer than pronotum; 

 rostrum almost reaching the posterior coxce ; pronotum with a 

 narrow anterior collar, immediately behind which are two trans- 

 verse callosities, lateral margins a little sinuate, anterior margin 

 moderately concavel) sinuate, posterior margin twice the breadth 

 of anterior ; scutellum transversely impressed near base and longi- 

 tudinally sulcate on apical area*; hemelytra considerably longer 

 than abdomen ; cuueus much longer than broad, curved round to 

 near apex of membrane, which has a single long cell ; legs of 

 moderate length, femora a little thickened ; apical joint of tarsi 

 thickened. 



14.53. Thaumastomiris sanguinalis, KirA: J. Bomb. N. H. Soc. xiv, 

 p. 57, pi. A, f. 6, & pi. B, f. 4 (1902). 



Sanguineous ; antennse and eyes dark 

 fuscous ; membrane pale fuscous, with 

 the venation darker ; pronotum very 

 finely granulate, corium more finely 

 granulate and very obscurely shortly 

 pilose ; tarsi fuscous. 



Length 5 millim. 



Hah. Ceylon; Peradeniya (Green). 

 Frequents Crinum asiaticum (E. E. 

 Green). 



Kirkaldy writes : " The types d'& 2 

 have been placed in the British 

 Fig. 305. Museum," but they are not to be found 



21iaumastomiris savguinalis. in that collection. 



Division CYLLOCORARIA. 



Cyllocoraria, Rent, (part.) Bih. Vet.-Akad. Handl. ill, 1, p. 6 (1875) ; 



id. Act. Soc. So. Femi. xiii, p. .567 (1884). 

 Heterotomaria, Kir};. Faun. Haioaiiensis, in, pt. ii, p. 1.32 (1902). 



Since Eeuter founded this division in 1875 he has considerably 

 subdivided it. One of these new divisions (Dicyp7iaria)f I have 



* Kirkaldy, in his diagnosis of the genus, writes " scutelhtm not sulcate." 

 He probably described an imperfect specimen. 



t Eenamed Campyloncuraria (Kirk. Faun. Hawaiiensis, iii, pt. ii, p. 138, 

 1902). 



