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head near each ocellus, centre of anterior margin and a sub- 

 basal line to pronotuni, and basal margin of scutellum black ; 

 corium pale hyaline, its apical angle broadly reddish testa- 

 ceous ; membrane pale hyaline, its apical area suffused with 

 testaceous and piceous ; body beneath testaceous ; legs stra- 

 mineous, apices of femora and tibia? a little darker ; antennce 

 ochraceous, basal joint and apex of second a little darker, 

 second, third, and fourth joints subequal in length, basal 

 joint shortest, not reaching apex of head ; head strongly 

 attenuated and laterally sinuate in front of eyes; pronotura 

 very coarsely punctate ; scutellum with a subbasal transvers3 

 carination, which is centrally continued to apex. 

 Long. 4^ mm. 



Division Aphanaria. 



Aphanus atomarius, sp. n. 



Ochraceous, thickly punctured witli brown ; head reddish 

 ochraceous, lateral margins and apex, margins of central lobe, 

 two large basal spots, and eyes black ; pronotum with black 

 lines enclosing an irregular transverse space on anterior area, 

 the lateral margins moderately laminately refiexed ; scutellum 

 with a black line occupying nearly centres of lateral margins 

 and two longitudinal black lines at apex ; corium with the 

 apical angle black ; legs ochraceous ; abdoaien beneath casta- 

 neous ; head beneath, disk of sternuui, a central longitudinal 

 fascia to abdomen, anterior femora (excluding apices), apices 

 of intermediate and posterior femora, and apices of tibi^ and 

 tarsi black. Antenna? mutilated in the six specimens now 

 before me. 



Long. 5-5^ mm. 



Allied to A. orientalis, Dist., from British India. 



Fam. Reduviidae. 



S u b f a m . Stenopodinji:. 



DiTHMAEUS, gen. nov. 



Body moderately elongate^ a little posteriorly widened ; 

 head subcyliudrical, not narrowed anteriorly and between an- 

 tennae armed with two porrect spines, eyes inserted at about 

 one tliird from base, behind and between which the surface is 

 transversely tuberculate and there contains the ocelli, extreme 

 base narrowly pedunculate ; antennse strongly pilose, first 

 joint nearly as long as head, second twice as long as first j 



