HEMIPTEEA HETEUOPTERA OF CETLON. 115 



*tAPECHTIA METAPYEEHA. 



Apechtia metapyrrha. Renter, Act. Fenn. xii. p. 321 (1881). 

 Described from Ceylon. 



Opikus pteehtjs. 



Lenseus pyrrhus, St°al, CEfv. Vet.-Akad. Fork. xvi. p. 187 (ISfiO). 



Described from Ceylon. 



*t (?) Opintjs eugicollis. 



Opinus rugicollis, Walk. Cat. Hem. Het. B. M. viii. p. 3 (1873). 



Described from Ceylon. Mr. Grreen's collection contains an 

 immature specimen from Maskaleya whicb. appears to belong 

 to tbis species. 



Ceeilocus discoloe. 



Cerilocus discolor, Stal, Stett. ent.Zeit. xxii. p. 146 (1861). 



Described from Ceylon. 



TiAEODES ELEGANS. 



Tiarodes elegans, Stal, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, (4) iii. p. 55 (1863). 

 Described from Ceylon. 



*tTlAEODES VAEICOLOE. 



Tiarodes varicolor, Stal, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, (4) iii. p. 55 

 (1863). 



Eecorded from tbe Philippines, Java, Penang, and Ceylon. 



Mr. Green's specimen, which seems to belong to this variable 

 species, is without special locality. 



Grenus Dicephaltjs, g. n. 



The entire insect sparingly clothed with short diverging hair. 



Head. — Eyes rounded, very prominent, as broad as the front 

 lobe of the pronotum. 



Frontal lobe commencing at the back of the eyes, with nearly 

 parallel sides and subtruncated in front. 



Hinder lobe broader and shorter, forming a long oval, very 

 convex above, and with a very large ocellus on each side in 

 front. 



Antennae 4-jointed, rising in a stout oblique process on each 

 side of the frontal lobe ; scape thickened, about three times as 

 long as broad; second joint the longest, about four times as long 

 as the scape and fully half as long again as the third joint ; fourth 

 joint about as long as the third and pointed at the tip. 



