Rhynchota .. . h at middle with two obsoletetubercles, and behind middle (nearer apex) armed with two acuteteeth, the first larger. (Reuter.) I have not quoted Renters reference to the hamus in the cellof the wings, for, as Champion remarks on this character in thegenus Scoloposcelis, which is included, owing to the supposedabsence of the hamus, in Renters division Xylocoraria, in theAmerican species, as well as in one of the European forms, thehamus is often present. This structure is therefore of littlegeneric importance. 3083. Blaptostethus ceylanicus, Popp. Act. Soc Sci. Ferm. xxxvii,no. 9
Rhynchota .. . h at middle with two obsoletetubercles, and behind middle (nearer apex) armed with two acuteteeth, the first larger. (Reuter.) I have not quoted Renters reference to the hamus in the cellof the wings, for, as Champion remarks on this character in thegenus Scoloposcelis, which is included, owing to the supposedabsence of the hamus, in Renters division Xylocoraria, in theAmerican species, as well as in one of the European forms, thehamus is often present. This structure is therefore of littlegeneric importance. 3083. Blaptostethus ceylanicus, Popp. Act. Soc Sci. Ferm. xxxvii,no. 9, p. 40 (1909). Head, pronotum and scutellum shining black; apex of costalarea to corium and the cuneus black, more opaque; clavus andcorium piceous brown, about basal half of costal margin ochraceous ;membrane brownish ochraceous, the basal area reflectiiig tlie dark POLYCTENIDiE. 309 abdomen beneath ; body beneath black ; lateral margins of meso-and metasterna and the legs ochraceous; antennic with the first,. Fig. 173.—Blaptosiefhus ceylanicus. second and third joints ochraceous, remainder mutilated in typicalspecnnen now before me. Length 3 millim. Hab. Ceylon; Peradeniya (fTrc?, Vienna Mus.). 3084. Blaptostethus piceus, Fieh. Wien. ent. Monatschr. iv, p 270 \\Joi\^- ^ (l^^O); ^^^- ^^^^- ^^(^- Sci. Fenn. xiv, p. 667(looo), Var. pallesceus, Fopp. Act. Soc. Sci. Fenn. xxxvii, no. 9, p. 41 Poppius has enumerated a variety of the tvpical B. piceus Fieboxigmally described from Celebes, as found m Bombay and EastAfrica. T have not seen this species or variety, and therefore haveonly drawn attention to it. Family POLYCTENID^. (Vol. Hi, p. Dr. Speiser has recently contributed some notes on this Family(Eec. Ind. Mus. iii, p. 271, 1909). Seven species are enumeratedin this paper, but only one recorded from British India, theF. hjrce, Waterh. (vol. iii, p. 11). Dr. Annandale, in 1908, foundat Trivandrum in Travancore, on a specimen of CynojAerusmarginatus a nymph, which in Spei
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