506 Mr. W. L. Distant on Heteroptera. 



specimen ; head about as long as raesonotum, shorter than 

 pronotum ; hemelytra extending to the base of the penulti- 

 mate abdominal segment ; anterior femora palely annulate 

 near apex, finely spinose beneath from about one-third from 

 base, anterior tarsi three-jointed ; rostrum reaching the base 

 of the anterior coxaj, basal joint incrassate, darker than the 

 remaining joints ; intermediate tibiae apically palely annu- 

 late, intermediate and posterior tarsi mutilated in typical 

 specimen. 



Length 15 mm. 



Hab. Ceylon ; Paradeniya {Green). 



I have only seen an incomplete specimen of this well- 

 marked species. 



TsiBELOCEPEALINJB. 



Opisthoplatys cornutus, sp. n. 



Head, antennae, pronotum, connexivum, body beneath, 

 rostrum, and legs ochraceous ; scutellum and corium fuscous 

 brown, basal and apical angles of the latter ochraceous ; 

 membrane piceous black ; eyes black ; antennae longly 

 pilose, first joint about as long as anterior femora, second 

 joint slightly longer than first, the antenniferous tubercles 

 above produced in short, prominent, slightly forwardly 

 curved tuberculous spines ; rostrum with the basal joint 

 reaching but not passing eyes ; pronotum with the anterior 

 lobe only a little more than half the length of posterior 

 lobe ; scutellum granulose ; corium distinctly longitudinally 

 broadly ridged, the costal ridge more prominent and not 

 quite reaching apical angle, a second prominent discal ridge, 

 and a subclaval less prominent ridge, between the ridges 

 the colour is brownish ochraceous ; membranal veins a little 

 ochraceous at base. 



Length 8 mm. 



Hab. Travancore ; W. Ghats, Tenmalai. 



Apocaucus, gen. nov. 



Head with the anterior lobe moderately porrect and a 

 little produced in front of eyes, but clothed with long curled 

 hairs, somewhat flattened on disk but longly produced and 

 apically curled downward at their apices on lateral and 

 anterior margins ; antennae pilose, first joint about as long 

 as head, second shorter than first, remaining joints very 

 slender; rostrum reaching the anterior coxae, first joint 

 reaching eyes, but not extending behind them : pronotum 



