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three small black dots near the tip ; tibiae very minutely black-speckled. 

 Membrane of the fore wings cinereous; veins few, brown ; no transverse 

 veinlets. Var. j3. — Stripes of the abdomen nearly obsolete. Length of the 

 body 3^ — 3^ lines. 



a, b. Hindustan. From the Entomological Society's collection. 



Eysarcoius latus. 



Sordide Hindus, dense el subtililer nigro punclalvs ; caput nigricans, 

 obtusion; thorax an lice cullosus, angulis posticis lalissimis sub- 

 productis valde rolundatis ; sculellum rotundatum, abdominis apicem 

 fere atlingens, basi nigricans ; pedes teslacei, nigro conspersi ; mem- 

 brana cinerea, fuscescenle venosa. 



Dingy livid, oval, convex, thickly and minutely punctured ; punctures 

 black. Head large, blackish, obtuse in front, somewhat shorter than the 

 thorax; lobes of equal length. Eyes piceous, rather promiuent. Rostrum 

 black, extending a little beyond the hind coxa;. Thorax in front with a 

 band of small irregular calli ; hind angles prominent, very broad, much 

 rounded. Scutellum broad, rounded at the tip, extending nearly to the tip 

 of the abdomen, blackish towards the base, with a small callus on each 

 basal angle. Legs testaceous, speckled with black. Membrane cinereous; 

 veins pale brown. Length of the body 2\ lines. 



Somewhat broader than E. bovillus, to which species it has most 

 affinity. 



Formosa. In the National Museum at Melbourne. 



ETSARCORIS rUSTTLATCS. 



Sordide lividus, dense et subtiliter nigro pun c latus, sublus testaceus ; caput 

 nigricans, antice rotundalus ; thorax callis duobus anterioribus nigri- 

 cantibus subpunctalis, fascia postica e annutis quatuor subpunctatis, 

 angulis posticis rotundatis ; scutellum rotundatum, abdominis apicem 

 fere altingens, callis duobus basalibus albidis ; pectus vitlis duabus 

 nigris indelerminalis ; ventris discus niger ; pedes testacei, nigro con- 

 spersi ; membrana pcllucida. 



Dingy livid, oval, convex, thickly and minutely punctured, testaceous 

 beneath; punctures black. Head blackish, large, rounded in front, some- 

 what shorter than the thorax; lobes of equal length. Eyes piceous, rather 

 prominent. Rostrum testaceous, extending to the hind coxa?, black towards 

 the tip. Antenna? testaceous, slender; joints from the first to the fifth suc- 

 cessively increasing in length. Thorax with a transverse blackish callus on 

 each side in front, and with a band of four thinly punctured ringlets between 

 the hind angles, which are rounded and slightly prominent. Scutellum 

 broad, rounded at the tip, extending nearly to the tip of the abdomen, with 

 a small whitish callus on each basal angle. Pectus with an interrupted 

 irregular black stripe on each side continued over the basal part of the 

 abdomen, the latter with a black disk. Legs testaceous, slender; femora 

 and tibia? speckled with black. Membrane colourless. Length of the body 

 2 lines. 



