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short and broad, pedunculate at base ; legs long and slender, basal 

 and apical joints of tarsi about equally long, tibiae distinctly longer 

 than the femora. 



This genus may be placed in the Division Myrmecophyaria, 

 Eeut. 



Rhodoclia convictionis, sp. n. 



Head, pronotum, scutellum, and hemelytra piceous-brown ; head 

 with a pale ochraceous line extending centrally and perpendicularly 

 for a short distance from base, and then curved and diverging on each 

 side to the anterior margins of eyes ; scutellum with a central pale 

 longitudinal line ; abdomen greyish ochraceous ; head beneath, ster- 

 num, rostrum, and legs pale brownish ochraceous ; the pedunculate 

 base of abdomen centrally piceous, with the lateral margins greyish ; 

 legs and antennse thinly spinously hirsute, the head also margined 

 with pale long hairs. Long. <? 6 to 8, ? 5 J to 6 millim. 



Hab. Nilgiri Hills ; Barwood Estate (H. Leslie Andrews). 



Zaratus, gen. nov. 

 Head subtriangular, obliquely deflected in front of eyes, mode- 

 rately centrally longitudinally sulcate on disk, eyes of moderate size 

 but a little projecting beyond the anterior margin of the pronotum ; 

 antennae with the first joint nearly as long as head, second joint 

 more than twice as long as first, third longer than first, fourth muti- 

 lated ; rostrum not reaching the anterior coxae, first joint about 

 reaching base of head ; pronotum elongate, but a little broader at 

 base than long, transversely constricted a little before anterior mar- 

 gin, posteriorly convexly tumid, anterior and posterior margins trun- 

 cate, the lateral margins narrowing to apex, angularly sinuate at the 

 transverse constriction, thence straight to anterior margin ; scutellum 

 small, subtriangular ; clavus* long, almost reaching to base of cuneus ; 

 corium with the lateral margins strongly concavely sinuate, broadly 

 widened at the cuneal area ; membrane slightly passing the abdomi- 

 nal apex ; abdomen broad, globose, constricted at base ; legs of mode- 

 rate length, the posterior tarsi mutilated. 



Allied to the Neotropical genus Zosippus, Dist., from which 

 it principally differs by the unarmed scutellum. 



Zaratus repandus, sp. n. 



Head, pronotum, and scutellum pale cinnamon-brown ; scutellum 

 with an oloscure pale concave line and a small basal spot ; corium 

 pale cinnamon-brown, an oblique basal spot on each side, which are 

 almost connected with a transverse spot beyond apex of scutellum, 

 and a transverse concave fascia on each side before cuneus whitish, 

 the cuneal suture more obscurely whitish ; membrane black, with an 

 obscure pale transverse fascia near base ; legs pale cinnamon-brown, 

 apices of femora and about apical thirds of tibiae and the tarsi pale 

 stramineous, apices of tarsi black (posterior tarsi mutilated) ; antennae 

 pale ochraceous, third joint, excluding base, black ; body beneath im- 

 perfectly seen in carded specimens. Long. 4 millim. 



Hab. Nilgiri Hills ; Barwood Estate (H. Leslie Andrews). 



