102 APPENDIX. TING1DIDJE. 



areolets whitish ; head and abdomen beneath piceous, the sternum 

 ochraceous ; legs with the femora piceous, the tibiae and tarsi 

 ochraceous ; anterior margin of prosternum whitish with a series 

 of dark punctate impressions ; structural characters as in generic 

 diagnosis. 



Length 2| millim. 



Hab. Ceylon; Peradeniya (E. E. Green). 



Swept from short grass (Green). 



Genus PHATNOMA. (Vol. II, p. 126.) 



2876. Phatnoma costalis, Dist. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belq. liii. p. 113 

 (1909). 



Pale brownish ochraceous, the lateral areas of the pronotum 

 and the costal, subcostal, and sutural areas of the elytra greyish ; 

 a small linear black spot in the discoidal area and a similar spot 

 near the apex of sutural area; body beneath and legs reddish 

 brown ; antennae with the third joint very long, apical joint piceous 

 at apex ; pronotum tricarinate, the lateral areas greyish with the 

 margins of the areolets brownish, the lateral margins ampliated 



Fig. 49. Phatnoma costalis. 



and produced in two strong stout spines ; costal area of the elytra 

 with small brown margined areolets, a piceous undulated line near 

 its inner margin and small piceous spots on its outer margin, the 

 subcostal and discoidal areas with distinct pale transverse raised 

 lines. 



Length 4 millim. 



Hob. Tenasserim ; Myitta (Doherty). 



Allied to P. laciniata, Eieb. (vol. ii, p. 126), from which it differs 

 in the longer antennae, the more porrectly spinous head, the differ- 

 ently carinated pronotum, and above all by the very distinct costal 

 area of the elytra. 



