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2745. Hoinceocerus fratenius, .sp. u. 



Brownisb-ochraeeous, thickly blackly punctate; lateral margins 

 of bead, pronotum and coriuin p;de ocbraceous or greenish-ochra- 

 ceous, impunctate ; scutellum paler, a little more sparingly punctate, 

 a small cluster of black p\uictures a little before apex ; abdomen 

 above bright carmine-red with a central broad longitudinal luteous 

 fascia, the connexivum pale greenish-ochraceous ; body beneath 

 pale ocbraceous, the legs and lateral abdominal ir.argins pale greenish- 

 ochraceous ; membrane pale bronzy, the basal angular areas black ; 

 extreme apical angle to corium black ; antenna brownish, first jonit 

 longest, considerably longer than fourth, which is a little longer 

 than third, fourth joint piceous with a broad pale subbasal annu- 

 lation ; rostrum with the third joint slightly shorter than the fourth; 

 pronotum with a pale central longitudinal hne, the lateral margins 

 nearly obliquely straight, the posterior angles subaeutely sub- 

 prominent, more strongly punctate than the head, the basal area 

 of which behind and between the ocelli is almost impunctate. ^ 



Length 12 to 15; breadth between pronotal angles 3 to 

 3h millim. 

 'Bab. Ceylon : Kandy (Green). _ ^ 



This species is allied to H. albiventris, Dall. (vol. i, p. ob2), troiu 

 which it structurally differs in having the first joint of the antennae 

 considerably longer "than the fourth ; it is also a smaller, narrower, 

 and darker insect. 



2746. Homceocerus javanicus, Da//. Li>^/ Hem. ii, p. 444 (1852). ^ ^ 

 Gonoeerus abbreviatus, Hevr.-Schitff. IVanz. Ins. vi, p. 81, t. boL 

 (1842), iiom. prjBOCc. 



" Head testaceous, very finely punctured with brown ;_ pronotum 

 pale dull fulvous, very thickly and finely punctured with brown, 

 with the posterior margin greenish, the lateral angles somewhat 

 prominent and acute ; scutellum testaceous, very finely punctured 

 with brown ; coriaceous portion of the elytra dull reddish testaceous, 

 thickly and finely punctured with brown, with the apical portion 

 blackish, the lateral margin pale greenish-testaceous, and an 

 indistinct broken transverse line near the apex ; membrane brownisU 

 semitransparent, with the base blackish; back of the abdomen 

 bright red, with the tip blackish ; abdomen beneath yellow, wi U 

 the sides greenish : breast pale green, rather thickly punc ured ; 

 legs dusky testaceous, tarsi green ; rostrum pale dull fulvous ; 

 antenn® dusky, with the apical portion of the last joint tulvous. 



(Dallas.) , , ,. „ 



Body elongate, narrow, the "indistinct broken transverse Ime 

 near the apex " of tegmina usually coalesced into a short transverse 

 narrow pale ocbraceous fascia extending from near inner angle 

 lialf way across tegmen; rostrum extending about bait ^^tl^ 

 between anterior and intermediate coxae, first joint extending, to 

 about middle of head, second joint not quite reaching anterior coxaj, 



