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ventral surface concave. First joint of the antennae shorter than the second ; the anterior 

 femora feebly thickened, non-tuberculate. The body, limbs and antenna; finely pilose. 

 The head, rostrum, pronotum, dorsal surface of the abdomen and the femora dull black; 

 the ventral surface shining black ; hairs piceous ; antennae, tibiae and tarsi ferruginous. 

 A single specimen, taken at Ramanad in a manure-heap in a garden. 



XLV. Eygus biseratensis, Distant. 



L. biseratensis, Distant in Annavdak and Robinson, Fascic. Malay. Zool. i, p. 269, 



pi. XVI, fig. 11. 



A single specimen, from the flowers of Cassia auriculata at Mandapam. 



This individual agrees closely with Distant's figure P, the type from the Malay Penin- 

 sula, except that the cuneus is slightly paler in colour. 



The species, found in Ceylon, Burma, and the Siamese Malay States, does not appear 

 to have been previously recorded from India proper. 



Hemiptera Homoptera. 



Of this suborder, only a few individuals were seen. In addition to the common Lepto- 

 centrus taunts (Fabr.) one or two minute Jassids and a small Fulgorid were obtained. 

 These I have not been able to identify. 



ARACHNIDA FROM RAMANAD. 



The Arachnida, speaking generally, are even more poorly represented than the 

 Insects during the dry season in Ramanad. Among the spiders, a few Attidae were 

 common on the walls of houses ; while numbers of Scorpions, belonging to the two forms 

 noted above, were brought me at all my halting places. Trombidium grandissimum and 

 a Tick, which attacked dogs and cattle, must have been extremely abundant both on 

 Rameswaram Island and on the mainland. An unnamed spider of the family Thomisidse 

 was observed in the yellow flowers of Cassia auriculata to which it was admirably 

 adapted as regards colour. 



XLVI. Buthus tamulus (Fabr.). 



All the specimens examined belonged to the typical form of this species, which, 

 according to Pocock, is the common variety of Southern India. In life, the female has a 

 greenish tinge, which soon disappears in spirit. 



XLVII. Palamn^us swammerdami subsp. lucidipes, Smn. 



This subspecies, distinguished from the typical form by its yellow legs, occurs 

 commonly all over the Ramanad desert, in which I did not see the typical form. The 

 yellow of the legs is far browner in life than would appear from the examination of 

 specimens preserved in spirit. Pocock gives Ramanad and Trichinopoly as localities. 



