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fourth joints blackish ; connexivum, as narrowly seen, ochraceous ; 

 structural characters as in generic diagnosis. 



Length 4 millim. 



Hob. Sikkim (Coll. Dist.}. 



Genus TIMASIUS. 

 Timasius, Dist. A. M. N. H. (8) iii, p. 498 (1909). 



Type, T. splendens, Dist. 



Distribution. Ceylon. 



Head moderately elongate, a little depressed anteriorly, with 

 two central longitudinal ridges not reaching apex ; eyes strongly 

 granulate ; antenniferous tubercles spinous externally ; antenna 

 five-jointed ; prouotum with the lateral margins strongly sinuate, 

 the lateral angles broadly roundly prominent, transversely im- 

 pressed before middle, and with two strong central longitudinal 

 ridges ; scutellum sub-triangular, strongly, centrally, longitudinally 

 ridged ; corium and membrane subequal in length. 



Allied to Hebrus, but differing in the more elongate body, the 

 spinous antenniferous tubercles, and the centrally ridged head, 

 pronotum, and scutellum. 



2908. Timasius splendens, Dist. A. M. N. H. (8) iii, p. 499 (1909). 



Head, pronotum, and scutellum black ; pronotum with two 

 central small spots of ochraceous hairs on anterior marginal area ; 



Fig. 73. Timasius sjilendens. 



corium bluish grey, with the margins, apical angle, a sub-oblong 

 spot on disk, and the apex of clavus black ; membrane dull blackish, 



