110 f^i«.^' 



Two females, one completely abraded. Sepai'alile at once from 

 M. Idtifrons and 31. nigrij^>ilis, 5 , 1'}^ the testaceous legs and much 

 smaller eyes. 



Hedybius (?) crista f us, n. sp.* 



cj . Moderately elongate, shining, clothed with whitish pubescence, inter- 

 mixed with long, erect, black hairs; black, the antennal joints l-o on their 

 outer edge, and the apices of the anterior and intermediate tibiae, testaceous, 

 the elytra violaceous: closely, niiinitely, the elytra nuich more distinctly 

 punctate. Head short, about as wide as the prothorax, very deeply, sharply, 

 triangularly excavate in the middlp, and with a stout, matted, tuft of curled 

 hairs in the centre in front, the eyes prominent, moderately large ; antennae 

 rather elongate, strongly pectinate. Prothorax transverse, convex, narrowly 

 margined, rounded at the sides. Elytra parallel, .-lightly wider than the pro- 

 thorax, moderately long. Legs hairy; anterior tarsal joint 'J with a long 

 claw-like extension above, which nearly reaches the apex of 3. 



Length 3j mm. 



Hah. W. Almora Division of Kumaon {JH. G. C. : iii.ll)17). 



One male, somewhat doubtfully referred to the genus Tleilijhii(s, 

 differing from Malacliioinimus latifroiis ( cJ ) in having comparatively 

 small eyes, strongly pectinate antennae, a triangularly excavate, cristate 

 head, parallel elytra, etc. H. cristatus could not very well be included 

 under Attains, even in the wide sense ; the two Indian Attall noted 

 above must be nearly allied to it. 



(Tu he coutinued.) 



AN ABERRANT GENUS OF GEOCORIN.E. 

 BY BR. E. BERttKOTH, C.M.Z.S. 



My friend, Mr. E. A. Butler, has sent me several specimens of a 

 small bug, the systematic place of which he was unable to determine. 

 It was found by Mr. T. V. Campbell at the roots of grasses at Chikka- 

 ballapura, not far from Bangalore, in South India, and he writes to say 

 that " it works its way along the ground like a small mouse." A micro- 

 scopical examination of its characters shows that this insect should be 

 referred to the subfamily Geocorinae, fam. Mijodocliidae. It differs, 

 however, from that family in the absence of ocelli and in the two-jointed 

 tarsi, but the ocelli are missing in many other Myodochidae with 

 undeveloped membrane, and as two-jointed tarsi are found also in many 

 Pentatomidae and in some Beduviidae, we must be prepared for the fact 

 that they in exceptional cases can be met with in other families with 



* Enumerateil under the name Malachiomimus (!) cristatus, antea, p. 71; it would be bettor 

 placed under Hedybius for the present. 



