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Araducta glahrata. 

 Araducta t/lahrata, Walk. Cat. Het. ii. p. 408. n. 1 (1807). 

 Hub. Aru, New Guinea. 



Araducta sordid a. 

 Rhaphi(jaster sordida, Kirby, Journ. Lian. Soc, Zool. xxiv. p. 86 (1892). 



]lah. Cejlon. 



Mr. Kirby (supra) describes this species as allied to 

 " Rhaph. fluvescens, Walk., from an unknown locality.^' 

 This is a slip of the pen for E. fulvescens, Dall., which I have 

 placed in the genus Plexippus. 



Araducta hella, sp. n. 



Ochraceous, thickly and coarsely black punctured, tlie black 

 punctures generally more prominent between the humeral 

 angles of the pronotum,and most prominent on thescutellum, 

 where they form a broad and very irregular longitudinal 

 fascia. Corium with a distinct discal levigate spot a little 

 before apex. Membrane brassy black, its apical margin pale 

 fuscous. Body beneath and legs pale ochraceous; sternum 

 and abdomen broadly laterally punctured with black, these 

 punctures forming a submarginal fascia, preceded by a distinct 

 segmental row of spots, and outwardly margined by small 

 spots at the apices of the incisures, a central spot on the 

 apical segment, and sometimes some spots on basal segments 

 — all these black markings are variable in intensity in 

 ditferent specimens. Legs punctured with black, particu- 

 larly the femora. Antennie pale ochraceous. 



Long. 8-10 millim. ; exp. pronot. angl. 5-6 millim. 



Ilah. Ceylon (Atkinson Coll.: Brit. Mus). 



Allied to A. sordida, Kirby, from which it differs by a 

 narrower and more elongate form : the presence of the levigate 

 spot to the corium ; longer and differently marked scutellum, 

 with its basal angles containing an outwardly transverse 

 foveate black impression; second joint of antennas much 

 shorter, only about half the length of third. 



Araducta repellens. 



Rhaphiyastcr repellens, Kirby, Jouru. Liuu. Soc, Zool, xxiv. p S6 

 pi. iv. tig. 9 (1892). "^ ' 



The produced lateral angles of tlie pronotum represent 

 another section of the genus. 



