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Pale fuscous, mottled and spotted with dark fnscous and black. 

 Base of 2nd and ord middle of 4th anteunal segments pale greenish, 

 testaceous. Connexiva and legs banded with dark fuscous, pale fuscous, 

 and testaceous. Base of elytra narrowly sanguineous (concealed by 

 pro-notum) ; membrane pale purplish-brown, at the base pale fuscous 

 with four large irregular black spots. Yenter sordid fuscous, with a 

 broad blackish sublateral longitudinal band ; spiracles pallid-bordered. 

 Abdomen dorsally sanguineous. 



Ceylon: Kandy (E. E. G. XI, 1897--) Collns., Green and Kir- 

 kaldy. The types {$ 'i) have been placed in the British Museum. 

 Sub- family Brachytin.e. 

 = Daladeridae, Leth. and Severin. 



Brachytes bicolok, Westw. 

 Plate A, fig. 13, and Plate C, fig. 4. 



The type of the genus, occurring in India and Ceylon, t^pecimens 

 were sent me by Mr. Green, with the information that they were 

 " swarming in a tangled mass of Asparagus falcatus " in the Royal 

 Botanic Gardens at Peradeniya [Peg. No. 10], " During the daytime 

 they congregate in a mass in the very centre of the plant." The 

 stinkglands in the imago emit a '' strong — rather sweet — scent of 

 Jargonelle," which perfumed iha alcohol in which the specimens were 

 preserved, and the bugs themselves retained the odour for several weeks 

 after transference to my cabinet. 



Three nymphs were also sent, which, despite the difference in their 

 size and in the development of the wing cases, clearly belong to the 

 same instar, doubtless the last. One of the larger is depicted on Pi, 1, 

 fig. 14, and the following description is added :— 



Head, antennae, legs, &c., strongly granulate. Head sulculate 

 anteriorly just behind and between the antenniferous tubercles which 

 are stout and very prominent. Second segment of antennae one-half 

 longer than first, very slightly longer than third which is very slightly 

 longer than fourth. Rostrum reaching to apical margin of meso- 

 sternura. Pro- and meso-notum very narrowly and superficially sulcu- 

 late longitudinally, the former sparingly granulate, more strongly 

 laterally and posteriorly. Pro-notum widened and elevated posteriorly 

 2\ times as wide posteriorly as anteriorly ; lateral and posterior margins 

 sinuate : apex of elytral cases reaching (in the largest specimen) to 

 about the middle of the second abdominal segment. Each of the femora 



