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usque in basin segment! penultimi extensa signato, area magna ovali media 

 ventris a basi segmenti secundi ad medium sexti extensa sanguinea. Caput 

 transversim ragosum, clypeo prominente, prope basin rotundato-angulato, 

 lamina squamiformi geuarum limbo obscure lutescente, tumulo ocellifero 

 leviter elevato sed lato, articulo primo antennarum capite quarta parte 

 breviore, supra parum sed subtus sat dense erecte pilose, articulis tribus 

 subsequentibus dense breviter pilosis et praeterea pilis parcis longis exsertis 

 prseditis, secundo primo tertia parte longiore, tertio quam secundo fere 

 dimidio breviore et quam quarto nonnihil longiore (art. duo ultimi desunt). 

 Pronotum latitudine sua paullulo brevius, Iteve, loboantico quam postico 

 paullo latiore et dnplo longiore, angulis apicalibus late rotundatis tuberculo 

 destitutis, marginibus lateralibus obtusissime convexis. Scutellum basin 

 abdominis paullulum superans, medio longitudinaliter impressum. Hemelytra 

 etiam maris radimentaria, squamiformia, medium scutelli pauUum sup- 

 erantia, margine obscure lutescentia. Meso-et metasternum coalita, non 

 sutura sed tantum impressione subtili discreta, parte mesosternali media 

 late sed baud profunde excavata, parte metasternali tumido-convexa et 

 insuper elevatione media longitudinali subcariniformi abbreviata instructo. 

 Latera meso-et metapleurse e supero distinguenda. Abdomen supra (margine 

 laterali connexivi et segmento secundo dorsi exceptis) transversim rugosum, 

 lorso prreterea (segmentis primo, sexto septimoque exceptis) utrinque 

 longitudinaliter impresso, ventre Isevi, segmento Primo medio longitudinaliter 

 rugoso, margine basali segmentorum quattuor mediorum, lateribus exceptis 

 dense breviter carinulato-crenulatis, segmento sexto maris ante marginem 

 apicalem impressione curvata sat profunda medio interrupta instructo, 

 segmento genitali maris longitudine paullo latiore, stylis genitalibus apicem 

 impressum et truncatum versus dilatatis. Femora antica subtus prope 

 medium dente gemino, femora media ibidem dente simplice et magis apicem 

 versus dente gemino, femora postica nonnihil ante apicem dente simplice 

 armata ; fossa spongiosa tibiarum anteriorum trientem earum occupans. 

 Long. S 23 mm. 



Not easily confounded with any previously described species. Belongs, 

 as the other Asiatic species, to the subgenus Hcematovrhophus . As recently 

 shown by Horvath, Ghjmmatophova is generically distinct from Ectrichodia 

 Lep. Serv. (Physorhi/nckus Am. S.) 



49. Pirates mundulus, Stsel. 



50. Lestomerus affinis, Serv. 



Apterous female : Anterior lobe of pronotum scarcely narrower than 

 posterior lobe and three times longer than it. Scutellum reaching base of 

 abdomen. Hemelytra rudimentary, as long as the scutellum, without 

 membrane but with the clavus separated from the corium by a distinct 

 suture. 



* 51. Lestomerus Wroughtoni, n. sp. 



Ventre nitido exceiDto subopacus, niger, capite superne, rostro, lobo antico 

 pronoti, limbo basali lobi hujus postici, vitta obliqua sublaterali hunc limbum 

 cum margine apicali lobi conjungente pedibusque (coxis exceptis) ferrugineo- 

 testaceis, femoribus medio infuscatis, parte plus quam dimidia apicali clavi, 

 macula magna oblonga adjacente corii maculaqiie parva triangulari ad mar- 

 ginem basalem membrante paullo ante angulum apicalem Cv^rii dilute ochra- 

 ceis, macula hac membranpe extus paullo ultra apicem corii lineariter retror- 

 sum producta, connexivo supra et subtus luteo-ochraceo ; totus cum rostro 

 et pedibus sat longe et dense ochreo-sericeus, sed scutello, clavo ac corio 

 (locis pallidis exceptis) breviter erecte nigro-pilosis, femoribus anterioribus 

 subtus dense breviter erecte villosis. Caput apice pronoti paullulo latins 

 et apice prosterni angustius, vertice oculo duplo et dimidio latiore, oculis 

 quam parte postoculari hand magis prominulis, e supero visis latitudine 

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