428 Mr. J. Scott on new Genera and Species 



rostral channel. Legs : thighs somewhat stout, narrowest at 

 the base, with a tooth on the underside about one third their 

 length from the apex; tarsi (third pair), first and third joints 

 of about equal length ; second shortest. 



Abdomen deep, convex ; $ , upper margin of the last seg- 

 ment produced posteriorly and pointed. 



Chauliops fallax. 



Minute. Pale brownish or brownish luteous. Pronotum 

 somewhat thickly and deeply punctured. Scutellum black, 

 with a short white streak at the basal angles. Corium pale 

 brownish, somewhat greyish at the base next the anterior 

 margin ,• disk near the apex of the clavus with a small black 

 spot ; posterior margin broadly piceous. 



Head: crown dark brown; face reddish brown. Antennae 

 yellow, first joint entirely and apex of the fourth brown. 

 Eyes piceous or black, placed on a peduncle stretching forward 

 obliquely in the shape of a wide-spread V . Rostrum brownish 

 yellow, last joint black. 



Thorax. — Pronotum pale brownish or brownish luteous, 

 somewhat thickly and deeply punctured, in front with a black 

 transverse band, interrupted by a pale central longitudinal 

 line. Scutellum black, with a short white streak at the basal 

 angles ; disk with a narrow, deep, central channel not reaching 

 to the base, its margins acute. Elytra pale brownish or 

 brownish yellow : clavus with a single row of brown punc- 

 tures : corium with a row of punctures next the claval suture; 

 disk sparingly dark-brown punctured next the base, poste- 

 riorly with some seventeen to twenty punctures in short irre- 

 gular oblique rows ; near the apex of the clavus a small black 

 spot ; posterior margin broadly piceous, anterior margin from 

 the base to the constriction somewhat greyish. Membrane 

 transparent ; disk with one or two more or less distinct brown- 

 ish spots. Sternum piceous or pitchy brown, sides punctured. 

 Legs yellow : thighs brown, basal half pale yellow or yellowish 

 white : tibial yellow, with a broad brown band at the base, the 

 lower half of which is piceous or black : tarsi yellow : claws 

 brown. 



Abdomen^ above dark brown, beneath pitchy black or brown ; 

 posterior margin of the segments with a row of fine black 

 punctures. Connexivum almost perpendicular, greyish yel- 

 low ; posterior margins of the segments broadly pitchy brown, 

 except the last (in the female), where the spot is in the 

 middle. 



Length 1\ line. 



