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clavus piceous, very narrowly margined with testaceous, rest of 

 tegmina opaque milky-white, inner margin (very narrowly) of 

 cerium, and a broad suffused band across the middle (somewhat 

 obliquely covering junction of corium and membrane) dark fuscous ; 

 labium [rostrum] and legs more or less piceous, first two segments 

 [joints'] of tarsi brownish-testaceous, hind tibiae dark piceous ; 

 antennae 4, 10, 11, 20 : labium \rostrum~\ reaching to about the 

 fore coxae; pronotum anteriorly and posteriorly punctured; a 

 double, rather feeble line of punctures down the middle, roundly 

 curved outwards laterally, sides of hind area parallel, posteriorly 

 emarginate ; hemelytra reaching to apical margin of third segment ; 

 fore femora comparatively strongly spined." (Kirlcaldy.) 



Length " 5^ millim." 



Hob. Ceylon ; Peradeniya (fide KirTcaldy). 



I have not seen the insect on which this species is proposed. 

 It appears to be very closely allied to the preceding species 

 M. leiicoderma. Bredd., and may prove to be identical with it. 



2792. Macropes raja, Dist. A. M. N. H. (8) iii, p. 323 (1909). 



Head, antennae, pronotum, scutellum, abdomen above, body 

 beneath, and femora black ; first and second joints of antennae 

 (excluding extreme apices of second joint), tibiae, and tarsi pale 

 ochraceous ; hemelytra milky white ; internal vein and margins of: 

 clavus, two principal veins of corium on apical half, the oblique 

 margin separating corium from membrane, two internal curved 

 veins and a large discal spot to membrane, piceous ; second and 

 fourth joints of antennae subequal in length, each a little longer 

 than third ; pronotum with the anterior area or lobe smooth and 

 centrally longitudinally grooved or sulcate, the posterior area or 

 lobe coarsely punctate and depressed, with a distinct transverse 

 ridge before basal margin, the lateral margins concave ; hemelytra 

 reaching the anterior margin of the fifth abdominal segment; 

 rostrum passing the anterior coxae. 



Length 6 millim. 



Hob. Calcutta. 



This species is allied to both M. spinimanus, Motsch. (vol. ii, 

 p. 24), and M. punctatus, Walk. (vol. ii, p. 25), by the sulcated 

 anterior prouotal lobe : from M. spinimanus it is to be separated by 

 the longer hemelytra and the colour of the legs ; from M. punctatus 

 it differs in the smaller size, the ochraceous first and second antennal 

 joints, more distinct sulcation to pronotum. ochraceous tibiae, &c. 



2793. Macropes singularis, Dist. A. M. N. H. (8) iii, p. 323 (1909). 



Head, pronotum, scutellum, body beneath, and legs black ; apices 

 of femora and the whole of the tibiae more or less castaneous ; tarsi 

 ochraceous ; antennae piceous brown, the extreme apices of the 

 joints paler ; ocelli shining carmine-red ; hemelytra creamy white, 

 costal margin of corium slightly yellowish ; clavus, corium at claval 



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