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reaching anterior angles), margin of lateral pronotal angles, legs, 

 and rostrum pale ochraceous ; lateral margins of head, continued 

 inside eyes to base, greyishly fasciately pubescent ; hemelytra pale 

 piceous brown, with prominent greyish white spots, an elongate 

 spot in clavus, a large subbasal spot to corium, more obscure spots 

 on apical half of corium, and a prominent subapical spot ; antennae 



Fig. 75. Microvclia kumaoncnsis. 



brownish ochraceous, second joint slightly shorter than first and 

 distinctly shorter than third, fourth longest ; head subglobosely 

 arched ; pronotum with the lateral angles broadly subacutely 

 prominent ; apices of tibiae and tarsi more or less pale piceous. 



Length 2 millim. 



Hob. Kutnaon ; Bhim Tal. 



2913. Microvelia diluta, Dint. A. M. N. H. (8) Hi, p. 500 (1909). 



Head and pronotum dull black ; anterior margin of pronotum 

 reddish ochraceous ; hemelytra dull greyish white, the veins 

 piceous, the apical area darker and thus exhibiting a large pale 

 apical spot ; body beneath and legs dull pale ochraceous ; rostrum, 

 disk of sternum, apices of femora, tibiae (more or less), and the 

 tarsi piceous; antennas with the first, second, and third joints 

 ochraceous, their apices and the whole of the fourth joint piceous, 

 second joint slightly shorter than first, more distinctly shorter 

 than third ; head globosely arched ; pronotum with the lateral 

 margins sinuate, the lateral angles subangularly prominent ; hem- 



