132 CATALOGUE OF 



31. IsCIINODEMUS CENTRALIS. 



Mas et foem. Niger, planus, angustus; rostrum coxas anlicas attinqens ; 

 antenna breves, art iculo lo tolo 2oque basi fulvis ; prothorax longi- 

 trorsum unistriatus, fascia punctata, laleribus rotundatis ; pedes fulvi , 

 breves, femoribus incrassatis ; aUc aniica: breves, basi macula discali 

 margineque interrupto albis. 



Male and female. Black, flat, shining, smooth, narrow, linear. Head 

 small, transverse, as broad as the fore border of the prothorax. Eyes 

 slightly prominent. Rostrum extending to the fore coxa?. Aulennse 

 slender, less than one-third of the length of the body ; first joint tawny; 

 second much longer than the first, lawny towards the base; third shorter 

 than the second; fourth longer than the second. Prothorax elongate, 

 much narrower in front, rounded on each side, with a slight longitudinal 

 impressed line and a slight transverse impressed line, the latter adjoining 

 the fore side of a finely punctured band. Legs tawny, short; femora 

 incrassated. Wings a little more or less than half the length of the body. 

 Fore wings white at the base, with a white spot in the disk and with a 

 white border which is interrupted ou the costa. Length of the body 2\ — 3 

 lines. 



a, b. Ceylon. From Mr. Janson's collection. 



32. ISCHNODEMUS PUNCTATUS. 



Niger, planus, linearis, Ion gissimus ; caput parvum,lobo medio prominulo ; 

 rostrum coxas anticas attingens ; antenna breves ; prothorax transverse 

 subsulcatus, laleribus antic is rotundatis, fascia posiica rude punctata, 

 margine postico excavalo ; femora quatuor poster tor a incrassata; 

 femora aniica vu/dc incrassata, subtus denticulata; ala breves; 

 corium album, nigra venosum et unisli igalum ; membrana basi 

 margineque albis. 



Black, very long, narrow, linear. Head small, transverse, very finely 

 punctured, as broad as the fore border of the prothorax ; middle lobe 

 prominent. Eyes slightly prominent. Rostrum extending to the fore 

 coxa 1 . Antenna; slender, less than one-fourtb of the length of the body; 

 first joint stout ; second twice the length of the first; third much shorter 

 than the second; fourth elongate-fusiform, a little longer than the second. 

 Prothorax elongate, rounded on each side in front, with a slight transverse 

 middle furrow; lore part finely punctured; a coarsely-punctured hand 

 adjoining the hind side of the furrow; hind border excavated in the 

 middle. Legs short; four hinder femora incrassated; fore femora much 

 incrassated, denticulated beneatb. Win^s much shorter than the abdomen. 

 Corium of the fore wings white, with black veins, and with a ldaek streak 

 which extends limn the disk to the exterior border ; membrane white at the 

 base and with a white border. Length of the body o lines. 



a. North Hindostan. From Capt. Boyes' collection. 



