RHYNCHOTA INDICA (HETEROPTERA). 105 



Dr. Montandon sent me a single specimen of this beautiful 

 species. 



Fam. BERYTID^. 

 Metacanthus hihamatus, Dist., Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. liii. 

 p. 360 (1909). 

 Hah. Ceylon. 



Metacanthus bihamatus. 



I take the present opportunity to figure this species. By the 

 long hooked spines to the pronotum it is somewhat aberrant to 

 the genus. 



Gen. Taprobanus (ante, p. 24). 



Although carefully shown in the sectional figure of the typi- 

 cal species (ante, p. 25), the generic diagnosis did not refer to 

 the character of a curved, upivardly directed, slender process on 

 each side of the sternum between the intermediate and posterior 

 coxce. 



Fam. LYG^ID^. 



Macropes rufipes, sp. n. 

 Head, pronotum, and scutellum black ; corium ochraceous, more 

 or less streaked with piceous ; membrane very pale ochraceous with 

 the veins darker ; body beneath black, the legs reddish-ochraceous ; 

 antennae black, the first, second, and third joints more or less ochra- 

 ceous, the apices of the second and third joints distinctly clavate and 

 black at apices ; pronotum broadly distinctly transversely impressed 

 a little before base, before this a little convex and irregularly im- 

 pressed, the lateral margins moderately rounded, the basal margin 

 moderately concave, the whole very finely punctate ; membrane 

 extending to a little beyond the middle of the abdomen ; connexivum 

 dull ochraceous ; abdomen above black, finely ochraceously pilose ; 

 body beneath black, very finely ochraceously pilose. Long. 7 to 

 8 millim. 



