Mi. W. I,. I)isLiiit on P.'ntiitoaiiiin'. ;{87 



(iCMllls 'I'nol.O.SANL'S. 



Tholosanus ? coUujata. 



Fentutoma colliyatu, U'ulk. Cat. Ilet. ii. p. .'IIO. ii. 11!) (18<37). 



1 linve placed this species doubtfully, or, ratlier, provision- 

 ally, in my genus Tholosanus^ from wliich it dilfers by tlie 

 broad and less attenuated scutellum. Tlie type and only 

 «uecimen lias the antennaj mutilated, and thus exact generic 

 idcntitioatinn is inipossibN*. 



Genus Plexipfus. 



Phxippus /uicfDcetis. 

 lihaphiyaster fulveacens, Dull, l^ist Ilein. i. p. '2'-i)^. n. 27 (1851). 



Dallas's type and only representative was unlocalized ; in 

 Dr. Atkinson's Indian collection, now in the British ^luseum, 

 are specimens from Mungphuand Utakamand. 



Sikkim (Coll. Dist.). 



Plexippus affinis, sp. n. 



Dull ochraceous, thickly and darkly punctate, the coloration 

 distinctly darker on the head and anterior half of pronotum ; 

 body beneath and legs very pale ochraceous ; abdominal 

 sligmatal spots black, a castaneous spot on apical segment. 

 Abdomen above reddish ochraceous, the apical area violaceous ; 

 connexivum darkly punctate, with small black marginal 

 spots at incisures. 



Antennae fuscous, apical joint ochraceous, apices of fourth 

 and fifth joints piceous, second joint much shorter than the 

 third, third and fourth joints subcqual in length ; pronotum 

 with the lateral margins distinctly piceous, the anterior-lateral 

 and anterior margins narrowly ochraceous. Kostrum reaching 

 the posterior coxae. 



Long. 11 millim. ; cxp. pronot. angl. (j^ millim. 



Hub. Continental India, Sikkim (Atkinson Coll. : Brit. 

 Mus.). 2saga Hills, W. Yunan (Coll. Dist.). 



I'he greater length of the rostrum and the shorter second 

 joint ot the antennae are not congeneric characters, but scarcely 

 warrant at present the formation of a new genus. 



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