MEMOIRS ON ORIENTAL RHYNCHOTA. 303 



Head above convex, arched, prolonged in front over the frons ; ros- 

 trum reaching to apical margin of meta-sternum, basal segment shorter 

 than head, reaching about as far as base of ocelli. Antennae : first 

 segment twice as long as second, third one-third longer than second 

 and one-half longer than fourth which is thickened. Pro-uotum pos- 

 teriorly elevated, trituberculate posteriorly, also tricarinate, the carinas 

 not reaching the sinuate posterior margin. Meso-and meta-sternmn 

 sulcate, meta-sternal pneustocera (16) very large. Scutellum short, 

 subhemispherical, terminated basally by a long, curved spine. Tarsi 

 trisegmentate, tirst segment longer than the other two together, third 

 longer than the second. 



Apparently allied to Cardopostethiis, Fieb., but differing in the points 

 enumerated. 



H. CiEDAMOMI, sp. n. 

 Pi. X, fig. 16, and PL C, fig. 5. 



Head and anterior lobe of pro-notum brown with yellowish hairs, 

 posterior lobe yellow with large golden punctures ; antennse and legs 

 yellow, thickly granulated with black ; fourth segment of antennas 

 black except at the apex. Eyes black. Head beneath and sterna 

 blackish with yellow bairs. Elytra hyaline, membrane infuscated. 

 Abdomen dorsally pale red-brown ; ventrally the same colour with an 

 obscure sublateral fuscate line, the whole thickly covered with very 

 short pale hairs. 



Long. 6 mill. 



Ceylon : Pundaluoya (June 1898, E. E. G.) " Common on the 

 under-surface of leaves of Cardamom, Elettaria cardamomum " (E. E. G.). 

 Sub-family Hygiin.e. 



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= Lybautaria, Stal, 1873. 

 DiSTANTIDEA, gen. nov. 

 Colpura, Berge, aflBnis, sed magis depressa ; capite subporrecto, multo 

 longiore quam inter oculos latiore ; rostro longissimo, segmento prime 

 pone capitis basin distincte extenso ; antennarum segmento quarto 

 tertio multo breviore. Pronoti marginibus lateralibus apicem versus 

 inerscutello piano. Elytris completis, membranse venis furcatis, hie et 

 illio mibus ; anastomosantibus. Femoribus posticis nee incrassatis nee 

 denticulatis Abdomine sulco destitute. Typo D. vedda, Kirk. 



(1'i> « Atbemhoraer" of Fieber 1859, Wien. Ent. Mon. Ill, 207, but tbey appear to be 

 the orifices of the stink glands. 



