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pronotum with a prominent black spot behind each eye, and with 

 a transversely curved obscure darker fascia a little broken at 

 centre, where it approaches the anterior margin ; face with the 

 lateral areas finely, obscurely, darkly striate; body beneath and 

 legs ochraceous ; tegmina dull greyish-white with small black spots, 

 of which the most conspicuous are three in claval area and three 

 on costal margin of apical area, the claval and apical areas a little 

 paler in coloration, the latter with the cellular areas paler and 

 almost appearing as white spots ; vertex of head a little shorter 

 than breadth between eyes, with a slender central longitudinal 

 ridge ; face convex ; tibiae finely spiuulose. 



Length incl. tegra. 4| millim. 



Hob. Ceylon ; Trincomali (Bainbriyge Fletcher). 



Genus POSTUMUS, nov. 



Type, P.facialis, Dist. 



Distribution. South India. 



Head between eyes considerably broader than long, obtusely 

 angularly produced from eyes to apex ; face longer than broad, 

 slightly narrowing to apex; pronotum very broad, more than 

 twice as broad as long, anterior margin nearly straight, posterior 

 margin slightly concave, lateral margins roundly oblique; scutelluin 

 about twice as broad at base as long, its apex subacute; tegmina 

 more than three times as long as broad, three subapical cells ; 

 posterior tibiae strongly spinulose. 



3821. Postumus facialis, sp. n. 



Vertex of head dull greyish, a prominent black spot at apex, 

 two large circular bluish-grey spots, each anteriorly containing a 



Fig. 48. Postumus facialis. 



small black spot, at base between eyes ; face pale ochraceous, with 

 an anterior marginal black spot and a transverse series of fused 



