THA.UMATUHGUS. 



ciuuamou-brovvn ; apices of femora and about apical thirds of 

 tibiae and the tarsi pale stramineous, apices of tarsi black (pos- 

 terior tarsi mutilated) ; antennae pale ochraceous, third joint, 



Fig. 141. Zaratus repandus. 



excluding base, black ; body beneath imperfectly seen in carded 

 specimens. 



Length 4 millim. 



Hal. Nilgiri Hills; Banvood Estate (H. Leslie Andrewes\ 



Genus THAUMATURGUS. 

 Thaumaturgus, Dist. A. M. N. H. (8) iv, p. 518 (1909). 



Type, T. typicus, Dist. 



Distribution. India and Ceylon. 



Head strongly, almost perpendicularly deflected, subtriaugular, 

 the lateral margins a little sinuate, the apex obtusely angulate ; 

 eyes moderately projecting beyond and slightly behind the anterior 

 margins of the pronotum ; antennae with the first joint con- 

 siderably shorter than head, second joint about three times as long 

 as first, its apical area distinctly thickened, third and fourth joints 

 subequal in length and together shorter than second ; rostrum not 

 quite reaching the intermediate coxao ; pronotum subquadrate, 

 broader than long, the lateral margins moderately oblique, the 

 anterior margin about one- fourth narrower than the posterior 

 margin; scutellum subtriangular, centrally, longitudinally, ir- 

 regularly gibbous ; corium thickly, shortly pilose, with cuneus a 

 little longer than the posterior tibiae, the lateral margins concavely 

 sinuate, distinctly broadened at apex ; cuneus short and broad ; 

 membrane passing the abdominal apex ; legs somewhat long and 

 slender, the femora moderately thickened, the posterior tibiae 

 straight. 



Allied to Pilophorus, Halm. 



