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transversely impressed behind the dark anterior collar, the anterior 

 lobe with the anterior and lateral margins and a central longitudinal 

 line greyish ochraceous, its surface with some large and coarse 

 punctures, posterior lobe subgranulose, giving the appearance of 

 dense paler spots, the lateral margins longly pilose ; scutellum 

 foveately depressed on basal area, its apical area ridged; legs 

 finely pilose, the femora more strongly so ; ocelli two. 



Length 5 1 millira. 



Hub, Bengal ; Pusa (Maxwell- Lefroy). 



3002. Leptopus travancorensis, sp. n. 



Head ochraceous, the area of the ocelli and the lateral areas 

 black ; antennae with the first joint and second joint excluding 

 apex ochraceous, third joint fuscous (remainder mutilated in 

 typical specimen) ; pronotum black, the anterior collar, lateral and 



Fig. 124. Leptopus travancorensis. 



posterior margins, and two small curved spots on disk of posterior 

 lobe, ochraceous ; scutellum black, its apex obscurely ochraceous ; 

 clavus and corium black ; margins of clavus, broad costal margin, 

 and five small spots to corium pale ochraceous ; membrane 

 fuliginous with the veins darker ; body beneath black, legs and 

 abdominal segmental margins ochraceous ; antennae with the first 

 joint slightly passing apex of head, second joint considerably 

 shorter than third ; pronotum very strongly transversely con- 

 stricted, the anterior lobe with two nodulose elevations on disk, 

 the posterior lobe coarsely punctate, anterior femora strongly 

 spinose beneath. 



Length 3| millim. 



Hah. Travancore. 



