444 APPE2fDIX. — PEKTATOMID.¥. 



Genus PLACOSTERNUM. (Vol. I, p. 209.) 



2724. Placosteninm bos, Dist. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. l, p. 406 (1906).- 



Above ochraceous, punctured and mottled with black : antennae 

 ochraceoiis, apices of fourth and fifth joints black, second and third 

 joints black, their bases ochraceous, third and fourth joints longest 

 and subequal in length : head with scattered coarse black punctures, 

 its surface and anterior area and lateral angles of pronotuni palely 

 testaceous ; pronotum rugulose, coarsely blackly punctate, some of 

 the punctures confluent on basal half and there forming four ir- 

 regular spots, a longitudinal ridge ou central disk, lateral angles 

 bi'oadly produced, their apices truncate, toothed anteriorly and 

 posteriorly, the anterior tooth preceded by a sulcus, lateral margins 

 coarsely serrate ; scutellum very coarsely punctate at base, more 

 finely punctate beyond base where it is very distinctly depressed, 

 the disk testaceous ; corium thickly blackly punctate, excepting a 

 nearly impunctate lateral space a little beyond base, and some 

 confluent punctate spots on its ajiical area ; membrane bronzy- 

 brown, the veins more or less sutt'used with black ; connexivum 

 blackly punctate, the apical segmental angles black ; body beneath 

 and legs ochraceous, blackly punctate, disks of meso- and meta 

 sterna, and a longitudinal central abdominal tascia, black ; coxoe and 

 bases of femora impunctate, lateral margins of abdomen with more 

 or less well defined ochraceous spots ; rostrum reaching the inter- 

 mediate coxre. 



Length 20 ; breadth between pronotal angles 16 millim. 



Hah. Ceylon; Maskeliya ((r^Ym). 



Allied to P. urns, Stal, but larger, more elongate, scutellum more 

 strongly hasally depressed, head with the apices of the lateral lobes 

 much more rounded and upwardly recurved, the produced pronotal 

 angles with their apices spinously produced both anteriorly and 

 posteriorly. 



GLAUCIAS to replace Zangis. (Vol. I, p. 221.) 



The generic name Zangis having recently been found to be pre- 

 occupied, Kirkaldy (Entomologist, 1908, p. 124) has proposed 

 Glaucias as a substitute, and this must now be used. 



Genus MENIDA. (Vol. I, p. 226.) 



2725. Menida pundaluoyae, sp. n. 



Subelongate, shape and form of M. flavoria, Dall. Head pale 

 ochraceous, with the lateral margins and four longitudinal series of 

 punctures black, thus defining five longitudinal pale ochraceous 

 areas ; pronotum pale ochraceous, sparingly coarsely brownly 

 punctate, ^^■ith t\^■o transverse callous spots margined with black 



