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Une on apical area; coriiim with two small spots on disk, a 

 transverse spot before apex, and the apical angle black; membrane 

 bronzy; connexivum spotted with piceous; body beneath piceous, 

 disk of abomen and legs ochraceous; tiblîE, tarsi, and apice of 

 femora annulated with castaneous; rostrnm reaching the inter- 

 mediate coxas, basai joint scarcely passing base of head ; antennaî 

 pale castaneous, base and subapical annulation to first joint, 

 subbasal annulation and apex to second joint, and apex of third 

 joint ochraceous, second joint longest; head broad, central lobe a 

 little prominent at apex, thickly finely pilose, obscurely thickly 

 punctate; pronotum with the anterior lobe moderately globose, its 

 latéral margins convex, distinctly narrower than posterior lobe; 

 scutellum as long as broad, largely irregularly excavate at each 

 latéral angle, and obliquely depressed on each side at apical area, 

 thickly fmely punctate; corium more sparsely and finely punctate, 

 the punctures arranged longitudinally. 



Long. 8 1/2 mill. 



Hab. : Ceylon; Wellawaya (E. E. Green). 



This and the foUowing species D. nitidiusculus are distinct from 

 other species of the genus as yet described, by the narrower 

 anterior lobe of the pronotum. 



Dinomachus nitidiusculus sp. n. — Ochraceous, thickly 

 finely punctate; head distinctly finely pilose; pronotum with a 

 basai marginal séries of small castaneous spots; scutellum with the 

 basai area piceous, traversed by a longitudinal pale line; corium 

 with two small spots on disk, and some irregular transverse spots 

 on apical area, black; membrane ochraceous; head beneath and 

 sternum piceous; coxa3, trochanters, legs, and abdomen beneath 

 ochraceous, latéral margins of sternum linearly black; tibise, tarsi, 

 and apices of femora annulated with castaneous; anterior femora 

 strongly spotted with castaneous; abdomen spotted with piceous on 

 each latéral area; antennac castaneous, basai joint ochraceous 

 speckled with castaneous, subasal annulation and apex to second 

 joint and apex of third joint ochraceous, second joint longest; 

 rostrum slightly passing the intermediate coxse, basai joint scarcely 

 passing base of head; pronotum with the anterior lobe moderately 

 globose, distinctly narrower than the posterior lobe which is 

 somewhat coarsely punctate; scutellum irregularly excavate on 

 each side both at base and apical area. 



Long. 7 mill. 



Hab. : Ceylon; Peradeniya (E. E. Green). 



