NAGU8TA. 



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2991. Lanca kandyensis, Dist. A. M.N. H. (7) xvhi, p. 370 (1906). 



Pale fuscous brown ; pronotura much mottled with ochraceous 

 pile, more thickly so on posterior lobe ; antennae pale fuscous- 

 brown, first joint ochraceous with its apex inf uscate ; antenniferous 

 tubercles castaneous ; eyes black ; rostrum ochraceous ; anterior 



Fig. 117. Lanca 



femora with au obscure, subapical, greyish annulation, and anterior 

 tibiae with a similar subbasal annulation ; intermediate and posterior 

 femora annulated and basally suffused with ochraceous, the tibito 

 with a similarly coloured subbasal annulation ; body and legs shortly 

 pilose ; the abdomen beneath piceous and ochraceously pilose. 



Length 18 millim. 



Hob. Ceylon (Lewis)- Kaudy (Green). 



Genus NAGUSTA. 



Nagusta, St&l, Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Fork. 1859, p. 374 ; id. Hem. Aft: iii, 



p. 59 (1865) ; id. En. Hem. iv, p. 7 (1874). 

 Zelus, Kolenati, Melet. vi, p. 41 (1857). 

 Phanerocoris, Jakoivl. Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. xlix (2) p. 267 (1875). 



Type, N. goedeli, Koleuati, a Palaearctic species. 



Distribution. Palaearctic, Ethiopian, and Oriental Regions. 



" Body elongate ; head elongate, anteriorly bispinous ; eyes 

 situate before the middle of head; rostrum with the first joint 

 subequal in length to the two apical joints ; antennae with the 

 first joint slightly shorter than the head and pronotum together ; 

 pronotum before the middle constricted, the anterior lobe destitute 

 of spines or tubercles, posterior lobe more or less distinctly discally 

 bituberculate, posterior angles not produced ; scutellum a little 



