hemisph.t:ritjs. 363 



pronounced ; iu colour principally^ differing by the presence of a 

 very large and broad oblique black fascia commencing on eacli 

 tegmen at base of sutui'e, curved at their apices and terminating a 

 little beyond middle of disk and a little before costal margin, an 

 irregular black spot on each side of suture before middle and a 

 smaller spot before apex. 



Length inch tegm. 5| millim. 



Iluh. Ceylon ; Earaboddo (Nietner, Brit. Mus.). 



D. Face with two linear hlacJc fascice. 



193b. Hemisphaerius herbaceus, Kirln/. J. Linn. >Soc., Zool. xxiv, 

 p. 147 (1891). 

 Hemisphaerius schaumi, Melicli. (part.) Ho)n. Faun. Ceylon, p. 74 

 (1903). 



" Green, finely punctured ; face with two parallel black lines, 

 widest in the middle, and separated by a yellowish stripe ; tegmina 

 green, finely punctured, slightly transparent and reticulated, base 

 of costa with two parallel rufous-brown lines, and a very narrow- 

 yellowish edging continued round the rest of the tegmina, except 

 on the inner margin ; pectus, pleura, and abdomen A\ith blaclv 

 stripes, those on the abdomen transverse ; legs green, lined with 

 black ; tarsi testaceous, claws black." (Kirby.) 



Length inch tegm. 54 millim. 



Hah. Ceylon ; Pundaluoya (Green). 



I have copied Mr. Kirhy's description, which adequately 

 diagnoses the species. He also remarks : — " The black stripes on 

 the face distinguish this s])ecies from any other known from 

 Ceylon." Dr. Melichar has placed it as a variety of //. schav.mi, 

 but it differs from that species not only by the differently coloured, 

 but between eyes narrower face, differently marked tegmina, &c. 



1939. Hemisph£eriiis venosus, sp. n. 



Ochraceous, tegmina and legs marked with piceous ; eyes pale 

 ochraceous ; face somewhat narrow, especially between the eyes, 

 its lateral margins flavescent, sublateral margins black, central 

 fascia red, its disk finely transversely striate ; clypeus red, its 

 lateral margins black, its margins at base flavescent ; legs more or 

 less streaked with piceous ; tegmina with the veins reticulate, 

 prominent, and very distinct, a broad curved piceous fascia crossing 

 basal area, widest at inner and narrowest at costal margin, at about 

 middle it is connected with posterior margin by a short and 

 straight fascia, thus enclosing an ochraceous spot, on apical area 

 some irregular piceous shadings which are mostly linear, at bases 

 the tegmina are distinctly strongly impressed. 



