248 APPENDIX. CAPSIDJE. 



less ochraceous ; scutellurn black ; clavus black, with a large dull 

 ochraceous spot near middle ; corium subhyaline, with blackish 

 spots, the two largest forming a transverse fascia near middle ; 

 cuneus and membranal cells margined with piceous ; membrane 

 pale hyaline, longly passing the abdominal apex ; body beneath 



Fig. 135. Apollodottis prafectus. 



and^legs black, apices of the femora and basal areas of the inter- 

 mediate and posterior femora ochraceous, tibiae and tarsi ochraceous ; 

 abdomen beneath with two ochraceous spots on each side beyond 

 middle; other structural characters as in generic diagnosis. 



Length 3| inillim. 



Hob. Bengal ; Pusa (Lefroy). Ceylon ; Eppawala (Green). 



Genus HELOPELTIS. (Vol. II, p. 439.) 



3026. Helopeltis cinchonas, Mann, Mem. Dept. Agric. 2nd. Ent. 

 ser, 1, n. 4, p. 328 (1907). 



Male. " Head black, no tubercle at base of antennae ; antennae 

 with the first joint stramineous-luteous speckled with black, 

 nodulose and incrassated during most of the length (-97 mm.), 

 second joint dark brown with black tip (3*00 ram), third dark 

 brown, extreme base and apical third black, slightly thickened at 

 apex; rostrum ochraceous-luteous, with dark brown tip (1'60 mm.), 

 second joint ('33 mm.), fourth joint ('50 mm.) ; pronotum of usual 

 generic shape, wholly black above and below ; head and pronotuin 

 (1-37 mm.?) ; scutellum black, scutellar horn black for about a 

 quarter of the length from the bottom, above this luteous through- 

 out, except for extremely narrow ring just below the tip, as stout 

 as in H. iheivora (in all specimens yet seen), very slightly bent, 

 (1-27 mm.), the clavate tip is not nearly so large relatively to the 



