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distinctly thickened, second a little shorter than first ; pronotum 

 black, the anterior margin and the apical area behind the lateral 

 angles, dull pale ochraceous, distinctly, centrally, longitudinally cari- 

 nate for its entire length, coarsely punctate ; elytra finely areolate, 

 excluding costal area, black for about two-thirds from base, subcostal 

 area shaded with ochraceous, margins of the areolets black, or pice- 

 ous except on costal area where they are ochraceous ; body beneath 

 black ; legs pitchy-brown. Long. 3 millim. 



Hah. Ceylon; Ambalangoda Lake (E. E. Green). 



Allied to S. gibha, Fieb., from which it structurally differs by 

 the pronotum being distinctly longitudinally carinate for its 

 entire length. Taken from Juncus sp. (E. E. Green). 



Hegesidemus, gen. nov. 



Elongate, narrow ; shortly spinous ; eyes inserted at base of head 

 and close to anterior margin of pronotum ; antennae with the first 

 and second joints short and thickened, second globose, shorter than 

 first, third long and slender, fourth incrassate, a little longer than 

 first and second together ; pronotum strongly longitudinally tricari- 

 nate, the anterior lateral margins moderately dilated, hyaline and 

 areolate, an anterior hood not covering base of head and which is 

 centrally strongly longitudinally carinate, the anterior pronotal area 

 distinctly convex, the posterior area or process angularly narrowed ; 

 elytra elongate, discoidal area extending to about the middle of the 

 elytra and with its margins distinctly raised, subcostal area some- 

 what narrow, costal area hyaline, areolate, broadest on apical half, 

 sutural area long and very finely areolate, more broadly so at apex ; 

 legs of moderate length and slender. 



Allied to Teleonemia, Costa, from which it principally differs 

 in the dilated, areolate lateral margins of the pronotum. 



Hegesidemus eliyanus, sp. n. 



Head piceous, eyes black ; antennae brownish ochraceous, the 

 apical joint piceous; pronotum with the anterior area castaneous, 

 the posterior area piceous, the longitudinal carinae and sometimes 

 the hood, more or less ochraceous, the lateral dilated margins hyaline, 

 areolate, the margins of the areolets fuscous ; elytra black or piceous ; 

 the costal area hyaline and areolate, the areolets in two longitudinal 

 series, their margins fuscous, the discoidal area either altogether 

 piceous, or brownish ochraceous with the raised margins darker, the 

 disk rugulosely punctate, costal area hyaline and areolate, the margins 

 of the areolets piceous or fuscous, sutural area piceous and with an 

 intermediate pale spot near apex ; sternum black ; abdomen beneath 

 testaceous, the base and apex black ; legs brownish ochraceous ; 

 elytra longly passing the abdominal apex ; other structural characters 

 as in generic diagnosis. Long. 5 millim. 



Hah. Ceylon; Nuwera Eliya (E. E. Green). 



Taken from Strohilanthiis spp. (E. E. Green). 



Dr. Horvath (Ann. Mus. Nat. Hung. ix. p. 337), among some 

 other proposed synonymy which will subsequently receive atten- 



