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basal area darker, reflecting the dark abdomen beneath ; body 

 beneath black, lateral areas of the sternum reddish-ochraceous ; 

 legs ochraceous, the basal areas and annulations to the apical areas 

 of the femora piceous or black ; antennae with the basal joint about 

 as long as head, second joint about twice as long as first ; eyes 

 prominent and projecting beyond the anterior margin of the pro- 

 notum; scutellum foveately impressed at base; hemelytra obscurely, 

 shortly, palely pilose ; apices of the tarsi black. 



Length 3 to 3| millim. 



Hob. Kumaon ; Bhim Tal, 4500 ft. (Annandale). 



Allied to L. catullus, Dist. 



3036. Lygus devinctus, List. A. M. N. H. (8) iv, p. 514 (1909). 



Head ochraceous or pale castaneous, with the apex and the eyes 

 black : antennas with the basal joint ochraceous or pale castaneous, 

 second joint black, third and fourth fuscous, base of third ochra- 

 ceous ; pronotum pale ochraceous, with two transverse black 

 callose spots behind the anterior margin ; scutellum black ; corium 

 ochraceous, clavus with an inner black fascia, widened posteriorly, 

 but not occupying the apical angle, corium with a large transverse 

 black spot beyond middle ; cuneus black, its basal margin ochra- 

 ceous ; membrane pale fuscous, subhyaline, its basal area blackish 

 by reflecting the dark abdomen beneath ; body beneath black ; 

 prosternum, rostrum, and legs ochraceous, femora obscurely annu- 

 lated with brownish, their bases black or piceous. apices of the 

 tibiae and tarsi narrowly black, in some specimens the anterior tibiae 

 are centrally obscurely darkly annulate ; antennae with the basal 

 joint as long as head, second joint about twice as long as first ; 

 cuneal fracture profound ; membrane longly passing the ab- 

 dominal apex. 



Length 4 millim . 



Hob. Nepal ; Soondrijal (Ind. Mus.~). 



Genus THERMUS. 

 (To follow Lygus, Vol. II, p. 454.) 

 Thermus, Dist. A. M. N. H. (8) iv, p. 514 (1909). 



Type, T. adumbratus, Dist. 



Distribution. Ceylon. 



Head a little broader than long, the anterior margin longly 

 pilose ; eyes transverse, passing the anterior margin of the pro- 

 notum ; antenna with the basal joint slightly thickened, a little 

 longer than head, somewhat longly pilose, second joint four times 

 as long as first, third almost half as long as second and nearly 

 twice as long as fourth ; pronotum about twice as broad as long, 

 coarsely punctate, anteriorly declivous, the lateral margins a little 

 roundly oblique ; mesonotum exposed ; scutellum subtriaugular ; 

 corium with cuneus about as long aa the second joint of the 



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