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space between the first and second exterior nerves and third and 

 fourth interior Avhitish. Sternum pitchy brown, shining, finely 

 punctured. Legs pitchy brown : thighs^ apex pale brownish 

 yellow or yellowish : iibice pale brownish yellow or yellowish, 

 spines on the second and third pairs dark brown : tarsi yellow- 

 ish, apex of the joints sometimes narrowly brownish. 



Abdomen beneath pitchy brown or castaneous, shining, very 

 finely punctured. 



Length 3|-3i lines. 



Genus Calyptoxotus, Dougl. & Scott. 

 (Subgenus Ragh'us, Stal.) 

 Calyptonotus alhomaculatus. 



Grey, yellowish, or w^hitish, black-punctured. Pronotum, 

 anterior half black. Corium with a black spot at the inner 

 angle of the posterior margin. Membrane with numerous small 

 white spots on the disk. 



Head black. Antennce black ; first joint, apical balf brown, 

 with a few long nearly erect stout black hairs ; fourth with a 

 yellow ring before the base. Eyes black. Rostrum pitchy 

 black. 



Thorax. — Pronotum anterior half black, not extending on 

 to the reflexed lateral margins, except at the anterior angles ; 

 lateral margins pale yellowish or whitish, extreme edge black ; 

 inner margin of the raised posterior angles black ; posterior 

 margin dark fuscous. Scutellum black, punctured on the sides ; 

 before the apex two short longitudinal brown streaks ; apex 

 yellowish w^hite. Elytra grey-yellowish or whitish, black- 

 punctured : clavus with a black spot at the base ; apex very 

 narrowly black : corium posteriorly wuth a somewhat rhom- 

 boidal black spot ; inner angle of the posterior margin nai-rowly 

 pale ; anterior margin at the apex and the inside of the pos- 

 terior margin narrowly black. Membrane dark fuscous, with 

 a number of minute white spots scattered over the disk ; 

 sutural margin black ; apex narrowly white. Sternum dull 

 hhick : p)^'osternum^ anterior margin broAvn, posterior fuscous 

 white; outer posterior angle yellowish or whitish : metasternum, 

 posterior margin white. Legs black, base of all the pairs 

 exteriorly white : cox(c black, apex of the second and third 

 pairs white : fulcra, first pair black, base brownish ; second 

 and third yellowish white, apex narrowly black : thighs, first 

 pair black, second and third broadly yellowish or yellowish 

 white at the base : tibice, first and second pairs brown, outer 

 margin paler ; apex pitchy black or black ; third pitchy 



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