HUBEBTIELLA. 



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Although only one Oriental species is known, there are doubtless 

 many others to be discovered, their small and fragile forms easily 

 escaping the attention of collectors. 



Fig. 2'i^.— Met acanthus 

 ■pulchellus. 



687. Metacanthus pulchellus, Ball. List 

 Hem. u, p. 490 (1852). 



"Pale testaceous; head impunctate, 

 brownish, with the sides and a longitu- 

 dinal central line whitish ; prouotum 

 thickly and finely punctured, with three 

 Avhitish tubercles forming a transverse 

 line near the anterior margin, and a 

 raised whitish line running down the 

 centre of the pronotum and terminating 

 in a large tubercle at the posterior 

 margin ; scutellum with a long, upright, 

 slightly crooked, whitish spine ; heme- 

 lytra semitransparent throughout, wings 

 transparent; legs whitish, with numerous 

 minute brown or blackish rings ; clubs 

 of the femora and tips of the tarsi 

 brown; antennae whitish, with numerous 

 brown rings similar to those on the legs ; 

 second and third joints about equal ; 

 apical joint short, ovate, black." {Dallas.) 



Length 4 millim. 



Hah. North India {Boys, Brit. 

 Mm.). 



The figure is taken from the type, 

 the only specimen I have seen. 



Genus HUBERTIELLA. 



Hubertiella, Kirkaldy, .7. Bomhmj N. H. Soc. xiv, p. 302 (1902). 



Type, H. cardamomi, Kirkaldy. 



Distribution. Ceylon. 



Elongate ; hemelytra as long as the abdomen ; posterior femora 

 passing the apex of abdomen ; head unarmed, convex, deflected 

 anteriorly ; rostrum reaching the apical margin of metasternum, 

 basal joint shorter than the head, about reaching the area of the 

 ocelli ; first joint of each of the antennae with its apex incrassated 

 and about twice as long as second, third longer than second, fourth 

 short and thickened ; pronotum tricarinate, and with three small 

 tubercles on posterior area, the carina? not reaching the slightly 

 sinuate posterior margin ; odoriferous apertures very large ; 

 scutellum armed with a long curved spine ; tarsi three-jointed, 

 first joint longer than the other two together, third longer than 

 second. 



