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verse furrow about the middle, the anterior aud lateral margins, 

 and the portion of the disk behind the transverse furrow, very 

 thickly and finely punctured. Sc-utellum rather elongate, very 

 thickly and finely punctured. Coriun) pitchy-chestiuit, fiuelv and 

 rather thickly punctured, the punctures closer on the line of the 

 nervures, the neighbourhood of which is darker than the rest of 

 the surface ; membrane brownish, transparent. Abdomen very 

 thickly and finely punctured on the sides, the centre of the disk 

 smootii, shining, impunctate ; the posterior margins of the segments 

 very minutely denticulated. Legs pitchy black, with the tarsi 

 ferruginous. Rostrum ferruginous. Antennae ferruginous-brown. 



Length 6^ millim. 



Hah. " India " (Eanlwicl-e Coll., Brit. 3his.). Ceylon ; Pera- 

 deniya (Green). 



The above description is largely that of Dallas, and relates to 

 the type, now in somewhat bad condition. 



1()G. Cydnus perpimctatus, Sirpi. (.Ethus P) Ami. Mus. Civ. Gmov. 

 xvi, p. (>U (18S1); id. (/Ethus) Ami. Soc. Ent. Fr. (6) ii, p. 34 

 t. 2, f. 75 (1882). 



Black ; broadly oval, much punctured over its entire surface, 

 much ciliated on the head and pronotum ; two le\igate spaces on 

 the anterior disk of the pronotum and at the basal angles of the 

 scutellum, the last with a median carinate line. 



A species to be easily recognized from any other here enumerated 

 by its abundant punctuation. 



Length (5 millim. 



Hah. Bombay Pi'esidency; Khandala {Genoa Mus.). Burma; 

 Schwego-Myo, Palou (Fea). 



Species imhnoivn to the writer by either sjjecimen or Jigure. 



167. Cydnus bengalensis, Leth. Bull. Soc Ent. Belg. 1891, p. cxlii. 



" Ovate, black, profoundly and thickly punctate ; head anteriorly 

 spinuliferous ; lateral margins of the pronotum furnished with 

 numerous long reddish cilia : rostrum, antenna', and legs brownish, 

 tarsi ochraceous."' 



Stated to resemble CJlavicomis, Pabr., from which it diifers by 

 the denser and more coarse punctuation of the pronotum aud 

 scutellum. 



"• Length 4 millim." 



Hah. Bengal : " Tetara." 



168. Cydnus? SCUtellatus, Buhm (.Ethus), Stett. ent. Zcit. xxi, 



p. 400. 10 (1800) ; Let/i. ^- Sev. Cat. Gen. Hem. i, p. 68 (1893). 



" Black, shining, punctured ; head and thorax with their margins 

 reflexed and pilose ; their surface convex, sparingly punctate. 



