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between the shoulders and nsarly two-thirds as long ; the part of 

 the head lying before the eyes when seen from the side is scarcely 

 longer than the average length of the eye ; front rather strongly 

 arched, the ocelli nearly touching the eyes ; pronotum with nearly 

 straight margins, narrowed in front, slightly rounded in the neigh- 

 bourhood of the front margin, with a transverse sharp impression 

 just behind the middle ; ' pronotum proprium ' and ' processus ' 

 both in the same horizontal plane, the Jatter punctured, rather 

 depressed laterally near the distinctly convex humeral angles ; 

 marginal keel sharp and distinct, ^near the front margin with per- 

 pendicular bristles; clavus with two longitudinal uervures and four 

 distinct punctate lines, the second commencing from the scutellar 

 margin disappears suddenly behind the middle of the clavus and 

 gives place to a smooth longitudinal stripe ; coriurn with sparse but 

 distinct punctures and sharply raised nervures, the rimula placed 

 close to the inner side of the outer nervure, which on the inside 

 is without a bordering row of punctures ; costal area with a single 

 row of punctures bordering the cubital which disappears beyond 

 the middle, in its basal third narrow and furrow-like, afterwards 

 moderately broadened; the short nervure of the corium simple, 

 running into the cubital nervure ; membranal nervures connected 

 at the basal cell ; sternum coarsely punctured, rather shining, the 

 area of the orifices rather large, its outer border far removed from 

 the outer border of the ' evaporativmuschel ' ; abdomen beneath 

 silky, shining, with microscopic net-like pattern ; side of the fifth 

 sternite with the typical three glandular spots ; legs short, femora, 

 especially the anterior, rather thickened, the latter beneath 

 towards the extremity with a series of strong bristles ; first 

 joint of posterior tarsi nearly one and a half times as long as 

 the two apical joints together ; rostrum reaching the middle coxae, 

 first joint scarcely passing the neck ; second joint of antennae at 

 least twice as long as the first, remaining joints mutilated. Dull 

 black, apex of scutellum pitchy black ; abdomen piceous brown ; 

 anterior margin of pronotum, lateral marginal keel and ' processus' 

 pitchy brown, the latter with pale dashes ; hemelytra bright 

 rusty yellowish, punctured with pitchy brown ; a spot behind the 

 middle of the clavus, the tip of the posterior angle to the corium, 

 as well as some macular markings behind the middle which form 

 two indistinct eye-spots, pitchy black ; membrane yellowish 

 hyaline, nervures pale greyish ; legs, rostrum, and antennse (as far 

 as existing in type) bright rusty yellowish." (Breddin.) 



" Length 4| millim." 



Hab. Ceylon (Nietner). 



2855. Lethaeus carinulatus, Bredd. Leutsch. ent. Zeitschr. 1907, p. 214. 



" J $ . Moderately shining ; head black, when seen from the 

 side in comparison with the other species rather slender, narrowed 

 towards the front, the throat side not or only slightly thickened, 

 with a slight transverse impression under the eyes ; throat with 



