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two roundish suffused spots on the hind margin of the ' processus 

 pronoti,' dull rusty yellow ; tegmina white, shortened, with 

 the tip of their obliquely rounded black membrane almost 

 reaching the fifth abdominal segment, costal margin before 

 middle flatly bent ; clavus strongly punctate, the punctures 

 mostly arranged in three series ; corium along claval suture with 

 two rows of stronger punctures, otherwise smooth and impunctate, 

 with the exception of a longitudinal row which, closely following 

 the costa, gradually bends away inwardly and just behind middle 

 of corium (within the black transverse band) dissolves into a 

 small group of punctures ; the clavus, as well as an approximating 

 stripe on corium, a transverse band running from inner angle 

 to costa, which is broad and irregular and interrupted by some 

 pale spots, as well as broad terminal border of corium which is 

 strongly narrowed inwardly, deep black ; the sharply pointed angles 

 of the metasternum, a lateral stripe on the abdomen before middle, 

 and basal third of middle and hind femora, whitish ; the terminal 

 border of front and middle femora, middle tibias, tarsi, as well 

 as antennae, dull rusty yellow ; apex of third joint of antenna 

 brownish, first joint about one and one-third times as long as 

 eye, second a little longer than third, fourth longest ; anterior 

 coxse armed with a fine spine directed backward." (Breddin.) 



" Length 5 millim." 



Sal. Ceylon ; Mihintale (fide Breddin), Heneratgoda (Green}. 



If I have rightly understood this species, it is to be recognised 

 by the large anterior lobe of the pronotum. 



2827. Pamera sinhalana, Kirk. (Orthcea) Ann. Soc. Ent. Eelg. 1908, 

 p. 1.1. 



" <J . Apparently close to punctulata, Motsch., but the head, 

 pronotum and scutellum are unicolorous, brownish piceous, the 

 anterior lobe of the pronotum having a lateral obscure 

 brownish yellow spot or blotch, and the posterior margin 

 of the pronotum having a feeble speck on each side ; 

 antennae and labium [rostrum] sordid ochreous, fourth seg- 

 ment [joint] of the former fuscous ; tegmina whitish, very 

 closely punctured with dark brown, except extero-laterally ; 

 apical angle dark brown ; membrane smoky, veins &c. whitish 

 legs yellowish testaceous, femora annulated broadly with blackish ' 

 underside blackish ; rostrum reaching midway between fore and 

 middle coxse, first segment not reaching to the base of the head ; 

 fore femora somewhat incrassate, with two elongate spines' 

 beneath ; fore tibias curved, with a long curved spine near the 

 apex." (Kirkaldy.) 



" Length 5| millim." 



Hob. Ceylon ; Galle (fide Kirl-aldy). 



This description provides an enigma. The general description 

 seems to represent P. punctulata, Motsch. (vol. ii, p. 54)f but 

 the character given of the fore tibiae " curved, with a long curved 

 spine near the apex " seems to remove the species from the ^enus 

 Pamera and locate it with or near Fontejanus, Bredd. 



