166 ADDEXDA. 



irregular paler annulations ; membrane bronzy-brown ; antennae- 

 brownish-ochraceous, the apical joint more piceous, first, second 

 and third joints almost subequal in length, fourth joint consider- 

 ably longest; rostrum testaceous-brown, basal joint very little- 

 shorter than the fourth; pronotum with the lateral margins 

 moderately obliquely ridged, and with a central, obscure, longitu- 

 dinal carina ; posterior angles moderately angularly tuberculate ; 

 membrane scarcely passing abdominal apex ; posterior femora 

 very shortly and obscurely spined beneath in $ , strongly so in c? 



Length 11 millini. 



Hob. South India ; Chikkaballapura and Mysore State (T. V. 

 Campbell). 



3743. Akbaratus fumosus, sp. n. 



Head, pronotnm, scutellum and corium dull dark ochraceous, 

 with dense, coarse, dark punctures ; membrane bronzy-grey ; body 

 beneath dull ochraceous, lateral margins of head before insertion 

 of antennae black ; a central black fascia on head and prosternum 

 (on head not reaching apex), three central black fasciae on meso- 

 sternum, lateral margins of abdomen with black linear markings ; 

 legs dull ochraceous, femora, excluding basal areas and inner 

 margins of posterior tibiae, inf uscated ; antennae dull ochraceous, 

 first joint a little longer than second or third, which are subequal 

 in length, fourth longest ; head above considerably shaded with 

 black and with a pale, central, longitudinal smooth line ; pro- 

 notum somewhat coarsely punctate, with a central longitudinal 

 carinate line, the posterior lateral angles nodulose ; posterior 

 femora in <3 shortly spined beneath, but with about three much 

 longer spines on apical third, in $ more shortly and regularly 

 spined, posterior tibiae in <$ distinctly inwardly spiued on apical 

 half, in 5 less prominently so ; membrane distinctly passing the 

 abdominal apex. 



Length d 1 & $ 10i millim. 



Hal. South India ; ~0hikkaballapura (T. V. Campbell). 



The strongly spined inner margin of the posterior tibia; is a 

 principal character in this small species. 



Genus HYPSELOPUS. 



Plypselopus, Surm. Handb. ii, i, p. 328 (1835) ; St&l, Hem, Afr. ii, 



"p. 98 (1865). 

 Meloza, Amy. fy Serv. Hist, des lUm. p. 221 (1843). 



Type, H. gigas, Burm.. an Ethiopian species. 



Distribution. Ethiopian and Oriental Eegions; also recorded 

 from the Seychelle Islands, Mauritius, and Bourbon Island. 



Body elongate ; head triangular, porrect, large, the central lobe 

 apically prominent ; the antenuiferous tubercles and the eyes also 

 prominent ; ocelli nearer eyes than to each other ; rostrum reaching 



