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narrowly brown, fourth brown, base narrowly pale. Elytra 

 testaceous, brown-punctured : corium posteriorly with a large 

 triangular brown patch. Legs yellow. 



Head black, shining, convex. Antennce pale brownish 

 yellow, base of the first and second joints narrowly brown ; 

 fourth brown, base narrowly pale brownish yellow. Eyes 

 purplish. Rostrum stout, brown, apex black. 



Thorax. — Pronotum black, shining, very finely punctured 

 posteriorly ; hinder angles pale brownish testaceous or clear 

 brown. Scutellum black, finely but distinctly punctured ; 

 apex sometimes castaneous. Elytra : clavus testaceous, with 

 three rows of brown punctures ; scutellar margin narrowly 

 brown, posterior margin internally narrowly brown. Corium 

 testaceous, nerves and disk posteriorly brown-punctured, and 

 with a large triangular brown patch extending from about in 

 a line with the apex of the scutellum to the posterior margin. 

 Memh-ane abbreviated, pale fuscous yellow, base brownish 

 yellow. Sternum black, shining, punctured. Legs testaceous : 

 thighs^ base of all the pairs piceous. 



Abdomen underneath black, shining, last segment red- 

 brown. 



Length 1^ line. 



Differs from L. enervts, the only other species I know, in 

 the puncturing, and by the large triangular brown patch on 

 the elytra and piceous base of the thighs. 



Genus Diplonotus. 



Diplonotus rusticus. 



Black ; elytra grey, with piceous punctures. 



Head black. Antennce yellowish or pale brownish yellow ; 

 first joint piceous, base very narrowly and apex broadly yellow; 

 fourth brown, paler at the base. Eyeshlack. Rostrum brownish 

 yellow ; first, third, and fourth joints brown. 



Thorax. — Pronotuyn black, collar more or less distinctly 

 brown ; between the constriction and the posterior margin 

 reddish brown, thickly punctured, with a black central line 

 and a more or less defined black patch on either side ; margins 

 narrowly yellowish. Scutellum black, punctured, and with a 

 reddish-brown Y-shaped mark ; extreme apex yellowish white. 

 Elytra grey, with piceous punctures. Clavus with the punctures 

 more or less thickly disposed towards the outer margin in dif- 

 ferent individuals. Corium : anterior margin pale yellowish 

 white, apex black, edge pitchy black, and a little way before the 

 apex is a very short longitudinal line composed of about three 

 confluent punctures ; inner posterior angle with a somewhat tri- 



