NAGUSTA. 215 



" into a black spine ; scutellum testaceous, the apex a little pro- 

 duced and with a white callus ; sternum livid testaceous, pleura 

 black, minutely reticulated with a short pale silky pubescence ; 

 hemelytra nearly reaching the abdominal apex ; corium including 

 clavus dark grey, veins (the somewhat black subcostal excepted) 

 strongly elevated and whitish, discoidal cell small, about as 

 long as broad, the connecting vein* twice as long as the 

 discoidal cell ; membrane cinereous, the veins piceous, apical vein 

 bordered with piceous ; abdomen livid testaceous, with short silky 

 pubescence, laterally fuscously black, an apical fascia on each 

 segment of the connexivum (fourth excepted) above and beneath, 

 and the spiracles, whitish ; genital segment of the female spotted 

 with fuscous-black ; legs pilose, testaceous, anterior femora with 

 three obscure annulations on anterior half, a subapical annulation 

 to posterior femora and apex of tibiae, fuscous. 



" Length $ 11 -5 millim." 



Hob. Bombay. 



Dr. Bergroth kindly forwarded his type to enable the above 

 figure to be made, and I regret to state that it was badly damaged 

 in transit. 



2993. Nagusta singalensis, I) ist. Arm. Soc. Ent. Eelg. liii. p. 373 

 (1909). 



Head uniformly black or fuscous ; antennae uniformly brownish 

 ochraceous ; pronotum, scutellum, and hemelytra more or less 

 testaceous brown sprinkled with cinereous ; rostrum and legs 

 brownish ochraceous ; body beneath cinereous speckled with 

 brownish ; abdomen beneath with a central longitudinal brown 

 line ; first joint of antennas almost as long as head and pronotum 

 together, second joint a little shorter than first ; rostrum with 

 the first joint a little longer than the remaining joints together ; 

 head with an oblique spine behind the base of each antenna, the 

 postocular portion a little more than twice as long as the ante- 

 ocular portion ; pronotum a little shorter than the head, the 

 posterior lobe very obtusely bituberculate near base, the lateral 

 angles produced in slender brown spines which are a little 

 recurved ; hemelytra nearly reaching the abdominal apex, the 

 discoidal cell a little longer than broad ; membrane glossy cinereous 

 brown, the veins prominent and piceous. 



Length $ 13 millim. 



Hob. Ceylon ; Peradeniya (Green). 



Allied to fl. macroloba, Bergr., but with the discoidal cell of 

 the corium distinctly longer than broad and with the antennae 

 and legs concolorous, not palely annulated ; head uniformly 

 black, &c. 



* Bergroth explains that he applies the term " connecting vein " to that 

 section oi' the apical margin of the corium which connects the discoidal cell 

 with the inner apical angle. ED. 



