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spot near the apical margin ochraceous ; membrane pale fuliginous, 

 aubhyaline ; body beneath black, lateral margins of sternum 

 ochraceous, lateral margins of abdomen pale brownish ; rostrum 

 ochraceous, the basal joint black ; legs ochraceous, anterior femora 

 (excluding base), apical halves of intermediate and posterior femora, 

 and extreme apices of tibise black ; second joint of antennae longer 

 than third (fourth mutilated in type) ; pronotum transversely 

 constricted near middle, behind the constriction thickly punctate, 

 the lateral margins laminate and impunctate ; scutellum obscurely 

 finely punctate ; clavus thickly coarsely punctate ; corium (ex- 

 cluding costal margin) thickly punctate ; anterior femora spined 

 beneath ; intermediate and posterior tibise spinulose. 



Length 8 millim. 



Hub. Bombay Prov. ; Surat. 



Genus DIEUCHES. (Vol. II, p. 82.) 

 DIEUCHES UNIFOEMIS. (Vol. II, p. 84.) 



This species originally described from Ceylon has now been 

 received from Nepal. 



Add: Hal. Nepal; Benikhola (Indian Mus.). 



The following species have been described by Breddin from 

 Ceylon, but with all the material that has been supplied me from 

 that island by Mr. E. E. Green and Mr. Bainbrigge-Fletcher, I 

 have failed to recognize them. Breddin had a keen perception 

 of minute differences combined with a non-acceptance of much 

 variation in species and an apparent disbelief in the same species 

 having a wide distribution. Our views on these points are there- 

 fore very divergent. I have, however, added his descriptions and 

 treated and numbered the species as distinct with a hope of one 

 day being able to examine his types. One species, Dieuches sub- 

 angustatus, Bredd. (Deutsch. ent. Zeitschr, 1907, p. 207) is quoted 

 as from Ceylon, but I can find no description of it, which prevents 

 its inclusion in this enumeration. 



2847. Dieuches nudipes, Sredd. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1906, p. 325; id. 

 Deutsch. ent. Zeitschr. 1907, p. 207. 



" Resembles D. yeh, Dohrn,* and closely allied to it ; head of same 

 structure ; antennae pitchy black, considerably more slender, third 

 joint especially thin, not or only quite imperceptibly clubbed at 

 apex, second and third joints suffused pitchy brown, the white 

 ring of fourth joint a little broader than the pitchy black base ; 

 pronotum of J (as in D. yeJi) scarcely less strongly constricted 



* I have included yeh, Dohrn as a synonym of D. uniquttatus, Thunb. 

 (vol. ii, p. 82). 



