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black spots between eyes ; pronotum dull greyish, with an anterior 

 subuiarginal transverse series of black linear spots ; scutellum 

 black; teguiina dull greyish, two obscure darker transverse fasciae 

 near middle and a number of small black spots on apical area ; 

 body beneath and legs more or less ochraceous ; posterior tibiae 

 spotted with black ; structural characters as in generic diagnosis. 



Length inch tegm. 3 millim. 



Hab. South India; Chikkaballapura (T. V. Campbell). 



Genus OROSIUS, nov. 



Type, 0. albicinctus, Dist. 



Distribution. South India. 



Vertex of head about as long as breadth between eyes, anteriorly 

 subconically produced ; face longer than broad, the lateral margins 

 moderately convex, gradually moderately narrowed towards 

 clypeus ; scutellum more than half as long as broad, anterior 

 margin strongly convex, posterior margin truncate, the lateral 

 margins oblique ; scutellum about twice as broad at base as long, 

 apicaily subacute, centrally transversely impressed near middle; 

 tegmina about four times as long as broad, their apices broadly 

 rounded, a network of cells on apical area (shown better in figure 

 than by description) ; posterior tibise strongly spinulose. 



3622. Orosius albicinctus, sp. u. 



Head and pronotum ochraceous with irregular blackish mottlings, 

 of which the more distinct are two small spots near apex of vertex 



Fig. 49. Orosius albicinctus. 



and two at inner margin of each eye, on pronotum an irregular 

 transverse series of small spots near anterior margin ; face pale 



