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3028. Diophantus literatus, List. A. M. N. H. (8) iv, p. 510 (1909). 



Body above brownish ochraceous, thickly, somewhat longly 

 pilose ; cuneus castaneous, its basal margin ochraceous ; head with 

 a central longitudinal line and the eyes black ; antennae ochraceous, 

 apex of second joint and the third and fourth joints piceous ; pro- 

 notuin with the extreme basal margin paler and with a small black 

 spot at each posterior lateral angle ; scutellum and the interior 

 area of corium distinctly darker in hue ; membrane fuscous, beyond 

 middle mottled with greyish, the basal area reflecting the dark 

 abdomen beneath ; body beneath and legs pale ochraceous, meso- 

 sternum laterally piceous, legs annulated with fuscous ; pronotum 

 finely transversely wrinkled and punctate ; scutellum punctate ; 

 other structural characters as in generic diagnosis. 



Length 5^ millim. 



Hab. Ceylon ; Obiya (Green). 



Genus CALOCOEIS. (Vol. II, p. 451.) 

 3029. Calocoris rama, Dist. A. M. N. H. (8) iv, p. 511 (1909). 



Above bright, shining, pale olivaceous-green ; body beneath and 

 legs paler ; antennae black, the basal joint olivaceous-green ; eyes 

 black ; membrane fuscous, with a grey spot near apex of cuneus, a 

 little darker on basal area ; rostrum ochraceous, its apex black and 

 reaching the intermediate coxae ; antennae with the basal joint 

 about as long as head, second joint about three times as long as 

 first and obscurely palely annulate near base ; head rather elongate 

 anteriorly ; pronotum with two small transverse callosities near 

 anterior margin, which is ridged ; corium with the costal marginal 

 area a little paler in hue and with cuneus a little longer than 

 posterior tibiae ; tibiae setose ; tarsi apically black. 



Length 5| millim. 



Hab. Darjiling. 



Genus MEVIUS. (Vol. II, p. 453.) 



Peritropis, Popp. (part.) (nee Uhler), Acta Soc. Sclent. Ftmn. xxxvii, 

 n. 4, p. 24 (1910). 



Poppius first places my Eastern genus Mevius as a synonym of 

 Uhler's North American genus Peritropis and then uses it as a 

 distinct subgenus under which he describes species from New 

 Guinea and Singapore. 



