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between the veins of corium black or piceous ; membrane black, 

 the apical margins broadly dull pale plumbeous, some of the veins 

 greyish white; body beneath pitchy black, shortly and closely 

 ochraceously pilose ; margins of the sternal segments arid the legs 

 sordidly ochraceous, femora (excluding apices) brownish ; rostrum 

 and a spot on each side of the posterior margins of the pro- and 

 mesosterna piceous ; second joint of antennae longest, third shorter 

 than fourth ; pronotum transversely impressed before middle, 

 distinctly, centrally, longitudinally carinate, the black or piceous 

 anterior area with two very distinct transverse cicatrices on each 

 side ; membrane not passing abdominal apex ; rostrum passing 

 the intermediate coxae. 



Length 4 millim. 



Hab. Bombay (Dixon). 



Genus LYGJEOSOMA. (Vol. II, p. 13.) 

 LYG.&OSOMA PUSILLUM. (Vol. II, p. 13.) 



Far. Head not totally black but with the apical area reddish ; in 

 some specimens the " two large dark brown spots on the posterior 

 margin " of the pronotum are also somewhat obsolete. 



Add : Hab. Bombay Prov. ; Matheran ( Mus. Hongrois). 



Genus PYRRHOBAPHUS. (Vol. II, p. 14.) 



2778. Pyrrhobaphus ? scutellatus, Bredd. Deutsch. ent. Zeitschr. 

 1907, p. 43. 



" cf $ . Pale sanguineous, with slight dusty grey tomentum ; a 

 large black discal spot on vertex encloses ou the hind margin a 

 small dull yellowish spot and is produced in front along the clypeus, 

 where it gradually shades into a dirty red ; pronotum on hind 

 border with two large, nearly quadrate, deep black spots, which 

 not infrequently coalesce and form a transverse band uniting with 

 the black outer border of the shoulder angles ; on the cicatrisant 

 area two transverse blackish spots separated by the continuous red 

 median line, and usually also, two shadow-like blotches on front 

 marginal area before the cicatrices ; scutellum deep black, the whole 

 terminal half shining ivory-white ; tegmina blackish striped with 

 dusty grey, a nearly circular spot behind middle of corium almost 

 touching costal margin, as well as an elongate longitudinal dash in 

 clavus velvety black, scutellar margin of cJavus in its basal half, as 

 well as the whole posterior angle of the corium as far as the velvet 

 spot, suffused roseate, costal margin before middle dull red ; mem- 

 brane deep black, its apex, extending over anus, white ; underside 

 of head and the pectus suffused with reddish, a longitudinal dash 

 between the antennal tubercles and cheek plates, as well as the 



