LIMXERITJM. 491 



385. Limnerium morosum, Cam. 



Limneria morosa, Cameron, Manch. Mem. 1897, p. 30 ( $ ). 



2 . A black species, with the legs and apices of the abdominal 

 segments pale red. Head closely punctate, black, with the palpi 

 and mandibles white; face with dense white pubescence. An- 

 tenncK black throughout, with dense and very short pale pubescence. 

 Thorax immaculate, shagreened, dull, with sparse short pale 

 pubescence ; metanotum with three distinct basal area;, remainder 

 obsolete, and its apex finely trans-aciculate. Abdomen black, with 

 all the segments broadly rufo-testaceous laterally and apically ; 

 the first segment immaculate and shagreened, with its "base" 

 flat, nitidulous and very smooth ; venter flavidous-testaceous. 

 Legs pale testaceous, with all the femora rufescent ; cox black, 

 with the anterior pairs apically testaceous ; hind tarsi and apices 

 of their tibiae dark. Wings hyaline ; tegulae white, stigma testa- 

 ceous below, areolet distinctly petiolate. 



Length 5 millim. 



CEYLON : Trmcomali (Col. Yerbury). 



386. Limnerium ceylonicum, Cam. 



Limneria ccylonica, Cameron,* Manch. Mem. 1897, p. 



cT . A black species, with the abdomen broadly, and legs partly, 

 red. Head very closely and somewhat strongly punctate through- 

 out ; face not sparsely white-pubescent ; mandibles, except 

 basally, ferruginous and the palpi testaceous, becoming apically 

 paler. Antennae entirely black, with very short pubescence. 

 Thorax alutaceous and immaculate, with dense white pilosity 

 throughout; metanotum gradually and subconvexly sloping; pro- 

 pleurae nitidulous and obliquely strigose, more strongly basally ; 

 mesopleurae punctate and above centrally trans-aciculate ; ineta- 

 pleurae alutaceous. Abdomen red, with the first segment entirely 

 black, and the second also black, except the apex above and a mark 

 on the side which are rufous. Legs : front pair fulvous, with the 

 apices of their black coxae white ; the intermediate femora apically, 

 and their tibioo basally, rufescent ; calcaria pale. Wings clear 

 hyaline, subinfumate apically ; stigma black ; areolet shortly 

 petiolate, with its lateral nervures slightly curved and its lower 

 margin sharply angled centrally. 



Length 7-8 millim. 



CEYLON (Rothney). 



Type in the Oxford Museum. 



This male would be, perhaps, more correctly placed in the 

 genus Campoplex, where the entirely black hind legs ally it to 

 C. lapponicus. 



