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corium also darker ; membrane hyaline with some central longi- 

 tudinal darker suffusions ; body beneath brownish-ochraceous, 

 punctate, the anterior margin of the prosternum, narrow posterior 

 margins of pro-, meso- and metasternum, coxal spots, and sub- 

 marginal abdominal spots pale levigate ; femora ochraceous, tibise 

 and tarsi paler, apices of tarsi black ; pronotuni transversely iin- 

 presseil before middle, both head and prouotum longitudinally 

 tricarinate ; scutellum subglobose; antennae with the second joint 

 longer than third, fourth about as long as second and third 

 together. 



Length 5 millim. 



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



3768. Nysiodes faustus, sp. n. 



Head, prouolum aud scutellum either piceous with pale suffu- 

 sions or pale ochraceous with piceous suffusions; antennae 

 ochraceous, basal and apical joints usually darker in hue ; apex 

 of scutellum narrowly pale ochraceous ; corium pale greyish or 

 ochraceous, darker on apical claval area, the venation and apical 

 margin also distinctly darker ; membrane subhyaline, with longi- 

 tudinal darker suffusions ; body beneath piceous or testaceous, 

 abdomen with a sublateral and central longitudinal black maculate 

 fascia; tibiae usually paler in hue than the femora. 



Length 5-5| millim. 



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

 Campbell). 



This species conforms in the shape and length of the pronotum 

 and scutellura to the typical form of the genus, but differs in the 

 length of the apical joint of the antennae, which is not longer than 

 the second joint. 



Genus NINUS. (Vol. II, p. 19 & Vol. V, p. 15.) 



IN8IGNIS, St&l, Freg. Eug. Resa, Hem. p. 253, t. iii, f. 5 

 (1859). 



Ninus singaleusis, Bread. Deutsch. Ent. Zeitschr. 1907, p. 39 ; 

 Dist. Faun. Brit. Ind., Rhyn. v, p. 1/5 (1910). 



Add : Nab. Ceylon ; Peradeniya (E. E. Green). Calcutta (Ind. 

 Mus.). Marianne Islands, Guam (fide Stdl). 



Genus CYMUS. (Vol. II, p. 21 & Vol. V, p. 10.) 



CYMUS TABIDUS. (Vol. II, p. 21.) 



PCymus nanulus, Bredd. Deuttch. Ent. Zeitschr. 1907, p. 38. 

 (Vol. V, p. 16.) 



Add: Hob. Ceylon; Peradeniya (E. E. Green). South India; 

 Chikkaballapura (T. V. Campbell). 



Breddin seems to have founded his species on a very small 



