SOPHIANFS. 485 



Genus TURNEBUS, uov. 



Type, T. cuneatus, Dist. 



Distribution. Ceylon. 



Broadly ovate ; head short, broad, anteriorly rounded, but, 

 including eyes, much narrower than anterior margin of pronotum ; 

 ocelli distinct and placed near eyes ; antennae finely setose, basal 

 joint scarcely passing lateral margins of head, second about the 

 length of third and fourth together, the last two slender ; rostrum 

 long, extending tlu-ongh two-thirds of the abdomen from base ; 

 pronotum short, broad, punctate, very much broader than long, 

 the latei'al margins convexly rounded, the posterior margin bi- 

 sinuate, the anterior angles distinctly subacutely prominent ; meso- 

 notum exposed ; scutellilm very long, angularly and regularly 

 atteuuated from base ; corium with the lateral areas convexly 

 ampliated ; cuneus longer than broad ; legs short and slender. 



1466. Turnebus cuneatus, sp. n. 



Head, pronotum, mesonotum, scu- 

 tellum and sternum ochraceous ; eyes, 

 first and second joints pf antennsje, 

 corium, rostrum, abdomen beneath, 

 and intermediate and posterior femora 

 black ; apex of rostrum ochraceous ; 

 above somewhat coarsely punctate 

 and shortly pilose ; membrane pale 

 smoky hyaline ; antennae finely, palely 

 ^. 010 setose; lateral margins of pronotum 



TarJL1:uncatu,. distinctly reflexed. 



Length 3| millim. 

 Hah. Ceylon; Pundaluoya (^r^ei)). 



Genus SOPHIANUS, nov. 



Type, S. (dees, Dist. 



Distrilmtion. Ceylon. 



Ovate, head broad, deflected anteriorly, the eyes very large and 

 broad, coarsely granulate, nearly meeting on vertex and almost 

 touching the anterior margin of the pronotum ; two distinct and 

 prominent ocelli placed between the eyes ; antennae with the first 

 joint short and globosely incrassate, second joint about four times 

 as long as first, very widely and laminately incrassate, gradually 

 widened from base, its apex broadly, a little sinuately truncate, 

 the two apical joints very short, the third slender, the fourth 

 moderately thickened ; rostrum reaching the posterior coxae ; 

 pronotum convexly tumid, deflected anteriorly, with a narrow 

 anterior collar, its posterior margin truncate and about twice as 



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