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abdomen above black ; first and second joints of antennae ocbra- 

 ceous, third and fourth piceous ; anterior lobe of pronotutn- 

 glabrous, basal area thickly coarsely punctate, and a little paler 

 than anterior lobe ; scutellum and coriura thickly punctate, the 

 lateral margins of the latter narrowly ochraceous ; membrane 



Fig. 88. Locutius atratus. 



rudimentary and not reaching abdominal apex ; other structural 

 characters as in generic diagnosis. 



Length 3 millim. 



Hab. South India ; Chikkaballapura and Nilgiri Hills, Love- 

 dale (T. V. Campbell). 



3788. Locutius brunneus, sp. n. 



A smaller species than the preceding, L. atratus ; the posterior 

 area of the pronotum brunnescent ; membrane more fully deve- 

 loped ; antennae ochraceous, the third and fourth joints mutilated ; 

 body beneath piceous, legs brownish-ocbraceous; posterior angles 

 of the pronotum distinctly dark ochraceous ; other characters 

 generally as in L. atratus, but apart from the different coloration, 

 the small size and the more developed membrane eparate it very 

 sharply from that species. 



Length 2 millim. 



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



3789. Locutius pallescens, sp. n. 



Head, pronotum and scutellum black, the basal marginal area 

 of the pronotum more brownish-ochraceous ; corium pale strami- 

 neous, the membrane subhyaline ; body beneath and legs black, 

 extreme apices of the femora, and the whole of the tibiae and 

 tarsi ochraceous ; antennae with the first and second joints ochra- 

 ceous, third and fourth joints black, second joint longest, third 

 and fourth almost subequal in length ; posterior marginal area of 



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