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brane extending to the penultimate segment of the abdomen ; 

 anterior femora strongly incrassated and shortly spined beneath. 



Length 5 millim. 



Hob, Calcutta. 



Allied to M. subauralus, Dist. (vol. ii, p. 26), by the uniformly 

 coloured corium and membrane ; from that species it differs in 

 the colour of the antennae and legs, the broader and more globose 

 anterior pronotal lobe, the shorter membrane, &c. 



.2795. Macropes privus, Dist. A. M. N. H. (8) iii, p. 325 (1909). 



Head, antenna, eyes, pronotum, and scutellum black, moderately 

 shining ; body beneath and legs black, apices of the femora and 

 the whole of the tibiae pale castaneous, tarsi ochraceous ; clavus 

 and corium greyish white, the claval suture and the outer marginal 

 area to corium (widened posteriorly) piceous ; membrane black, 

 its basal angle greyish white ; antennae with the extreme apices 

 of the joints paler, second aud third subequal in length, fourth 

 longest, pyriforrn and palely pilose ; pronotum considerably longer 

 than broad, thickly punctate, the basal margin concave, two smooth 

 cicatrices in transverse series on anterior area, aud two similar but 

 narrower cicatrices near middle ; scutellum distinctly ridged, 

 tx-ansversely at base, and longitudinally in the centre, its disk finely 

 granulose ; margins of clavus, the subclaval vein to corium, and 

 the inner half of the apical margin to corium pale yellowish ; 

 membrane smooth, shining, reaching the base of the sixth ab- 

 dominal segment ; connexivum and abdomen beneath very shortly 

 but thickly ochraceously pilose, the latter with a double series of 

 small black points on each side; rostrum shining piceous black, 

 about reaching the anterior coxae ; anterior femora strongly in- 

 crassate, finely spined beneath. 



Length 5| millim. 



Hub. Ceylon ; Peradeniya (Green}. 



Allied to M.prcecerjptus, Dist. (vol. ii, p. 26), but smaller, anterior 

 lobe of pronotum not sulcate, colour of jrteirbrane, corium, and 

 legs different, &c. 



2796. Macropes thoracicus, Dist. A. M. N. H. (8) iii, p. 325 (1909). 



Head, pronotum, scutellum, and sternum black ; basal margin 

 of pronotum and the abdomen pale testaceous ; rostrum and legs 

 orange-yellow ; corium very pale ochraceous ; membrane creamy 

 white; antennae piceous or black, the basal joint and extreme 

 apices of second and third joints ochraceous, second and fourth 

 joints subequal in length, each considerably longer than third; 

 pronotum short, a little broader than long, transverse impression 

 about one-fourth before posterior margin, the anterior area or lobe 

 opaque, coarsely irregularly punctate ; corium shorter than mem- 

 brane, which extends to the penultimate segment of the abdomen ; 



