172 APPENDIX. EEDUTIIDJi:. 



2944. Ploiariola mixta, Dist. A. M. N. H. (8) iii, p. 501 (1909). 



Head cimiamomeous, clothed with a greyish pubescence ; eyes 

 black ; antennae pale stramineous ; prouotum cimiamomeous ; the 

 anterior area and lateral margins speckled with greyish ; body 

 beneath and rostrum piceous, the apical joint of the latter pale 



Fig. 93. Ploiariola mixta. 



stramineous; anterior legs pale cinnamon-brown, the femora and 

 tibiae annulated with pale greyish ; intermediate and posterior 

 legs pale stramineous ; hemelytra greyish, thickly speckled and 

 spotted with pale brownish, three prominent dark spots on costal 

 margin, the first at about one-third from base, the second near 

 middle, the third before apex ; claval area thickly spotted ; 

 scutellum spined at base and apex. 



Length 7 millim. 



Hal. Ceylon ; Peradeniya (Green). 



Allied to P. oculata, Eeut. (vol. ii. p. 202), but with the pronotum 

 narrower and more elongate, intermediate and posterior legs 

 unspotted, hemelytra much darker and altogether differently 

 spotted and marked. 



2945. Ploiariola polita, Dist. A. M. N. H. (8) iii, p. 502 (1909). 



Head greyishly pubescent, finely spotted with black ; antennae 

 mutilated in typical specimen ; pronotum with the anterior area 



