484 Mr. W. L. Distant on Lygeide. 
angles excavated. Scutellum moderately gibbous at basal 
area, its apex acute. Corium a little narrower than the 
abdomen, the margins of which are exposed and a little 
prominent, strongly sinuate near base and widened poste- 
riorly. Rostrum with the basal joint a little shorter than 
the head. 
Allied to the genus Bathycles, Dist. 
Mizaldus dimidiatus. 
Rhyparochromus dimidiatus, Walk. Cat. Bet. v. p. 107. n. 179 (1872). 
Hab. New Guinea. 
Mizaldus Lewisi, sp. n. 
Black ; corium creamy white, with an apical angular black 
spot, membrane pale greyish hyaline; body beneath black ; 
legs and antenne ochraceous, femora and basal joint of an- 
tenne pale castaneous, apical joint of antennz fuscous. 
Head, pronotum, and scutellum coarsely punctate ; clavus 
and lateral area of corium more sparingly punctate. 
Long. 4 millim. 
Hab. Ceylon (G. Lewis). 
APPOLONIUS, gen. nov. 
Head (including outer margins of eyes) a little broader than 
anterior margin of pronotum; eyes prominent, globose; 
ocelli situate very near eyes; antenne with the third and 
fourth joints prominently clavate, second, third, and fourth 
joints subequal in length, first a little shorter. Pronotum 
strongly and transversely constricted, the anterior lobe a 
little longer than the posterior lobe, but narrower and 
globose ; posterior lobe with its lateral margins oblique ; 
scutellum with the basal area moderately tumescent ; anterior 
femora moderately incrassated. 
This genus is allied to Veocattarus, Dist., and can at once 
be recognized by the peculiar antennez and the position of 
the ocelli. Its type is the species described by Walker as 
Ophthalmicus cincticornis, of which the unique type is a 
carded specimen, thus rendering the generic diagnosis of 
a limited character. 
Appolonius cincticornis. 
Ophthalmicus cincticornis, Walk. Cat. Het. v. p. 158. n. 32 (1872). 
Head and anterior lobe of pronotum black ; the posterior 
lobe dark castaneous, with its anterior lateral margin luteous ; 
antenne with the first and second joints luteous, with their 
bases and apex of the sccond joint pale castaneous, third and 
fourth joints castaneous, apex of fourth joint much paler ; 
