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DiSPHINCTUS MiESARUM, Sp. D. 



Very hairy ; second segment of antennae four times as loDg as the 

 first. (14) Pro-notum laterally rounded, subsinuate, furnished with 

 pale yellow hairs. 



(14) I regret that I have seen only two examples of this distinct species. Of the mal 

 the antennae and elytra are missing, ; of the female, the apical two segments of the antenna;. 



Head yellowish-brown with a black clouded baud at the base ; pro- 

 notum blackish-brown, anterior half more or less yellow-red-brown, 

 postero-lateral angles and a wedge-shaped longitudinal median line on 

 the basal half of posterior lobe, flavous. Scutellum flavous, apical 

 margin ("base" auctt. 1) and lateral margins, black. Elytra cine- 

 reous, basal half of clavus, apical third of corium and apex of 

 cuneus, blackish. Membrane infuscate. Beneath sordid reddish or 

 brownish-flavous ; pleura, posterior coxfe, genital segments, &c., black. 

 Antennae black, except base of first segment. Apical fourth of pos- 

 terior and intermediate femora and the tarsi, black. Anterior lobes 

 of pro-notum with black hair tufts. 



Long. $ 6^ mill. ; $ 8^ mill. 



Ceylon: Pundaluoya (E. E. G., Feb. 1899); punctures leaves of 

 McBsa indica. 



D. FORMOSUS, sp. n. 

 PI. A., fig. 10 ; and PI. C, fig. 2. 



Second segment of antennae four times as long as first, which is in- 

 crassate ; third four-sevenths longer than the second and twice as long 

 as fourth. Elytra very hairy (long, thick, pale hairs). Scutellum 

 transversely striate. Rostrum reaching to the middle of the meso-ster- 

 num which is produced posteriorly in an acute spine. Head, pro-notum 

 and scutellum rufo- testaceous, anterior margin of pro-notum ruddier. 

 Eyes and antennae (except whitish or brownish basal third of first 

 segment) black. Elytra cinereo-flavous ; apical third of corium, apex of 

 cuneus and entire membrane, infuscate. Legs testaceous, rufo-testaceous 

 apically ; tarsi blackish. Posterior lobe of pro-notum usually imma- 

 culate, but occasionally clouded at the base. 



$ Abdomen slightly constricted longitudinally in the middle, 

 broadened out at base of fourth segment ; carinate longitudinally 

 beneath ; connexivam subvertical, scarcely extending laterally beyond 

 elytra. Long. 5 mill., lat 1*5 mill. 



