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membrane browuish-ochraceous or fuscescent; coxae pale cas- 

 taueous; rostrum ochraceous with darker shadings; femora pale 

 or very dark castaneous ; tibiae black or very dark castaneous, 

 bases of posterior tibiae sometimes distinctly paler; tarsi ochra- 

 ceous ; head shorter than its greatest breadth between eyes, 

 moderately rugosely punctate, the central lobe prominent, lateral 

 lobes emarginate at apices, their lateral margins rounded and 

 moderately reflexed ; pronotum with the anterior area glabrous, 

 posterior area distinctly punctate, the lateral margins reflexed and 

 ciliate; scutellum distinctly punctate, excepting basal margin, 

 which is slightly raised and practically impunctate, the apex 

 slightly depressed longitudinally in the centre ; membrane passing 

 the abdominal apex ; anterior femora robust. 



Length, rf 4-6, $ 7-8; max. breadth, rf 4-4$, $ 4-5millim. 



Hob. South India; Chikkabal lap ura and Mysore State (T. V. 

 Campbell). 



Breddin (Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. liii, p. 260, 1909) has described a 

 species from Ceylon under the name of Lactistes mediator. I have 

 hitherto not seen a specimen of this genus from Ceylon, and it 

 may, or may not, prove to be one of the species recorded from the 

 Indian mainland. 



Genus CYDNUS. (Vol. I, p. 90 & Vol. IV, p. 426.) 

 3686. Cydnus ater, sp. n. 



Body above shining black ; extreme basal margin of the pro- 

 notum, inner claval margin and apical margin of the corium, dark 

 castaneous ; membrane greyish-white ; body beneath dark casta- 

 neous ; legs brownish-ochraceous ; antennae pale brownish, the 

 apices of the joints pale stramineous, the last three joints very 

 distinctly thickened ; head above with the anterior margin 

 narrowly pale brownish, and shortly spiuulose with a few longer 

 hairs, the base transversely striated, central lobe prominent ; pro- 

 notum with the anterior marginal area transversely striated, 

 remaining area sparsely punctate; scutellum excluding basal 

 margin thickly finely punctate, the apex a little foveate ; tibiae 

 spinulose, the tarsi pale stramineous. 



Length 4-4| millim. 



Hab. South India; Nandidrug and Chikkaballapura (T. V. 

 Campbell). 



Allied to C. niyritus, Fabr. (vol. i, p. 90), but a smaller and 

 relatively broader species, pronotum less punctate basally, the 

 scutellum more narrowed apically, &c. 



CYDNUS GERMANUS, Bredd. Arch. Naturg. Bert. 1913, p. 96. 



" In colour, shape and size very near C. nigritus, but the pro- 

 notum on the posterior half and on the lateral areas without or 

 with very indistinct punctures or rugosities ; the scutellum dis- 

 tinctly flatter, more finely and sparsely punctured than in the 



