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behind the transverse impression between the eyes ; antennae with 

 the first joint black, about as long as the anterior femora (remain- 

 ing joints mutilated in typical specimen) ; pronotum centrally 

 longitudinally impressed on anterior lobe, centrally and broadly 

 impressed on posterior lobe, the posterior angles a little prominent 

 and nodulose, the posterior margin not quite straight, a little 

 concave ; rostrum with the first joint reaching eyes, shorter than 

 second joint ; membrane considerably passing abdominal apex ; 

 femora regularly nodulose ; legs somewhat longly pilose. 



Length 8 millirn. 



Hal. Mergui (Coll. Dist.). 



Genus SYCANUS. (Vol. II, p. 351.) 

 2984. Sycanus galbanus, Dist. A. M. N. H. (7) xviii, p. 368 (1906). 



Black ; coriutn stramineous, the clavus black ; head and rostrum 

 smooth, shining black, second and third joints of the latter piceous- 

 brown ; antennae with the first and second joints black, remainder 

 greyish-brown, first joint a little longer than head ; pronotum with 

 the anterior lobe shining black but greyishly pilose, posterior lobe 

 granulose ; scutellum with a moderately long erect spine, its apex 

 subacute, not bifid ; corium finely rugosely punctate between the 

 veins, which are strongly prominent ; membrane shining, slightly 

 bronzy black, extreme basal margin stramineous abdomen beneath 

 shining black, with a longitudinal series of white segmental spots 

 near each lateral margin ; sternum with some obscure testaceous- 

 brown spots ; femora longly pilose, slightly nodulose near apex ; 

 abdomen moderately ampliated and raised on each side, its margins 

 obtusely angularly sinuate. 



Length 20 niillim. 



Hub. Ceylon ; Bitnagalla (Green). 



In colour S. galbanus is allied to that section of the genus 

 represented by S. collaris, Fabr., but in structure is widely 

 divergent, and belongs to the specific section characterized by the 

 subacute and not bifid scutellar spine. 



SYCANUS LEUCOMESUS, Walk. Cat. Net. viii, p. 84 (187-3). 

 Sycanus collaris (part.), vol. ii, p. 351, fig. 225 (S. collaris). 



From specimens labelled S. collaris, Fabr., in the British 

 Museum, which also contains the type of Fabricius, I concluded 

 the identification was correct and that comparison had been made. 

 Moreover, though Stal (En. Hem. iv, p. 28) writes correctly of the 

 species " Spina scutelli brevi, cylindrica, integra, obtusa," he had 

 not previously described or referred to it in his ' Hemiptera 

 Fabriciana,' and it therefore seemed probable that he had not 

 examined the species when in London. I have, however, now 

 examined the unique type in the Banksian collection, and find the 



