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black, legs ochraceous, anterior femora excluding apices, 

 castaneous; antennae wilh the basai joint stramineous, second 

 stramineous with its apical half castaneous, third and fourth 

 piceous, second, third, and fourth subequal in length; head, 

 pronotum and scutellum thickly and finely punctate. 



Long. 3 mill. 



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



Tropistethus simulans sp. n. — Head, pronotum, scutellum, 

 and body beneath, black; posterior angles of pronotum, corium, 

 apex of scutellum, and legs pale ochraceous; a large subtriangular 

 spot on apical area of corium, black; basai two-thirds of anterior 

 femora and extrême bases of intermediate and posterior femora 

 castaneous; antennaî finely pilose with the basai joint castaneous, 

 second and third joints piceous, fourth joint pale ochraceous, 

 first and fourth joints subequal in length and slightly longer than 

 second and third joints which are also subequal; clavus and corium 

 somewhat thickly and coarsely punctate, and palely pilose ; 

 membrane hyaline with prismatic reflections; rostrum reaching 

 the intermediate coxse; intermediate and posterior tibiae longly 

 hirsute. 



Long. 2 1/2 mill. 



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



In colour markings closely resembling T. antejvnatus Scott from 

 Japan, but is a less elongate species, with the second joint of 

 antennee not longer but subequal to third, etc. 



Division Aphanaria. 



KANIGARA gen. nov. 



Head short, triangular, about half the length of pronotum, 

 including eyes as broad as anterior margin of pronotum, with a 

 slight rugosity at inner margin of each eye, ocelli at base and very 

 close to eyes; antennee with the basai joint hirsute and longly 

 passing apex of head, second joint a little longer than third; 

 rostrum passing the anterior coxœ, first joint not reaching base of 

 head; pronotum broad, subqaadrate, depressed anteriorly, basai 

 margin concavely rounded, latéral margins subampliate; scutellum 

 about as long as head and pronotum together, a little depressed 

 or foveate on disk, subtriangular; corium with the latéral margins 

 subparallel ; femora moderately thickened, tibice strongly, femora 

 more sparsely hirsute, tarsi with the basai joint very long. 



AUied to Aphanus. 



