506 Mr. W. L. Distant on Lygeide. 
Genus Paantivs. 
Peantius festivus, sp. n. 
Head, antennz, pronotum, scutellum, and anterior legs 
pale brownish castaneous ; posterior lobe of pronotum a little 
paler, coarsely brownly punctate, and divided from the ante- 
rior lobe by a transverse ochraceous line, on both lobes are 
indications of a central pale Jongitudinal line; corium ochra- 
ceous, punctate; the clavus, subclaval margin, and apical 
third pale brownish castaneous, in the last is a small sub- 
apical marginal pale spot; membrane pale greyish, its inner 
angle brown; body beneath, intermediate and posterior legs 
piceous ; bases of intermediate and posterior femora, extreme 
apical spot to abdomen, lateral margins of meso- and meta- 
sterna, posterior margin of metasternum, and anterior coxal 
spot ochraceous; apical joimt of antenne ochraceous, its 
apical half piceous. 
Long. 4-43 millim. 
Hab. Ceylon (Green, Brit. Mus.) ; Calcutta (Ind. Mus. 
and Coll. Dist.). 
Genus LetTu avs. 
Letheus extremus. 
Rhyparochromus extremus, Walk. Cat. Het. v. p. 99. n. 157 (1872). 
Rhyparochromus Greeni, Kirby, Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xxiv. p. 100 
(1891). 
Letheus descriptus. 
Rhyparochromus descriptus, Walk. Cat. Het. v. p. 108. n. 170 (1872). 
Rhyparochromus alienus, Walk. loc. cit. p. 105. n. 175. 
Letheus signatus, sp. n. 
Head and pronotum piceous, the last with two small 
ochraceous spots on each side of posterior margin ; scutel- 
lum piceous; corium ochraceous, punctured with brown, a 
spot near base, a large median patch, and the apex piceous; 
clavus with two small spots on each side and a subapical 
spot to corium pale ochraceous ; antennz fuscous, base of 
first joint, the whole of second joint, and the apex of third 
jot ochraceous ; membrane greyish brown, with the veins 
darker; body beneath black, legs dark castaneous; lateral 
margins of sternum, anterior margin of mesosternum, tibie, 
tarsi, and rostrum ochraceous. 
Long. 9 millim. 
Hab. Ceylon (Coll. Dist.). 
