482 



CAPSID^. 



B. Body pubescent; second joint of antennse 

 about equal in length to breadth of head 

 including eyes Campylomma, p. 483. 



Genus PSALLUS. 



Psalhis, Fieb. Wien. ent. Monatsb. ii, p. 820 (1858) ; id. Eur. 



Hem. pp. 74 & 305 (1861) ; Reut. Act. Soc. Sc. Fe7in. xiii, 



p. 101 (1884). 

 Apocremnus, Fieb. Wien. ent. Monatsb. ii, p. 320 (1858). 

 Atralliastes (part.), Fieb. Eur. Hem. pp. 74 & 310 (1861). 

 Atractotomus (part.), Fieb. Eur. Hem. pp. 71 & 294 (1861). 

 Liops (part.), Fieb. Verh. z.-b. Ges. Wien, xx, p. 254 (1870). 



Type, P. roseus, Fabr., a Palsearctie species. 



Distribution. Probably universally distributed, but uot yet 

 recorded from the Ethiopian Region. 



Body oblong, sometimes subelougate (J), or oblougly ovate 

 or ovate in $ , above more or less palely pilose ; head vertically 

 inclined ; clypeus distinctly prominent, compressed ; eyes some- 

 what large, generally strongly granulate ; rostrum reaching or 

 passing the intermediate coxai ; antennae with the second joint 

 in the 6 longer than in the $ and a little thickened apically ; 

 pronotum short, apical margin straight or nearly so, lateral 

 margins straight, base truncate ; posterior femora a little in- 

 crassate. 



The male is more elongate than the female, and the sexes some- 

 times vary considerably in colour. 



14G3. Psallus singalensis, sp. n. 



Black, thickly palely pilose ; lateral 

 marginal areas of the corium obscure 

 brovvnish-ochraceous ; cuneus pale 

 castaneous ; membrane fuliginous, its 

 apical margin paler ; femora piceous, 

 their apices, the whole of the tibiae, 

 and tarsi (excluding apices) ochra- 

 ceous ; antennae with the first joint 

 black, second ochraceous with its 

 apex fuscous, third and fourth 

 fuscous ; rostrum and trochanters 

 brownish-ochraceous ; tibiae speckled 

 with fuscous ; corium and cuneus 

 densely, pronotum and head less 

 thickly palely pilose. 



Length 2 millim. 



Hah. Ceylon; Peradeniya (G)Yni). 

 Allied to the Palaearctic species P. ohscureUus, Fall. 



Fig. 315. — Psallus singalensis. 



