Mr. W. L. Distant on Lygeide. 465 
may be only a very slight variety of that species. It is quite 
probable that Walker intended this for his type and inad- 
vertently described something else. He had done it before ! 
Genus Nystus. 
Nystus spectabilis, sp. n. 
Head, pronotum, and scutellum black; antenne, anterior 
margin, ‘posterior half of lateral margins, anda large i irregular 
discal spot to pronotum ochraceous; corium and mem- 
brane greyish white; apex of clavus, two somewhat large 
spots on posterior margin of corium—one at inner angle, the 
other about centre,—and a small spot at apical angle black ; 
body beneath black ; legs, central area of abdomen, anterior 
margin and lateral angles of prosternum, lateral margins of 
meso- and metasterna, posterior margin of metasternum, and 
coxal spots ochraceous. 
Pronotum very coarsely punctate with a central impression ; 
fourth joint of antennz about as long as third joint and 
moderately incrassate, its apex slightly fuscous. 
Long. 4 millim. 
Hab. Christmas Island (C. W. Andrews, Brit. Mus.). 
Cruinz. 
Genus NINwvs. 
Ninus assamensis, sp. 0. 
Head piceous, greyishly pubescent, especially at apex; 
antennz pale chocolate-brown, finely pilose ; pronotum 
greyish, darkly punctate; two small rounded spots near 
anterior margin and two very large basal spots—narrowly 
mwardly divided and anteriorly emarginate—chocolate- 
brown, between the two series of spots are two transverse 
black lines ; scutellum greyish, darkly punctate, somewhat 
blackish on lateral margins ; corium pale greyish ochraceous, 
brownly punctate, the lateral margin pale impunctate, a 
piceous patch at inner angle, a black spot at apex; clavus 
chocolate-brown ; membrane pale brownish ochraceous, its 
ventral area dark brown, reflecting the abdomen beneath. 
Head beneath and sternum dull greyish, darkly punctate ; 
abdomen piceous, greyishly pilose; legs and rostrum brownish 
ochraceous, the last with its apex piceous. 
Long. 4 millim. 
Hab. Assam: Margherita. 
Allied to the Neotropical N. notadbilis, Dist. 
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