480 APPENDIX. — COU^IDJE. 



of the iutsertion of the antennae to near base ; pronotum with the 

 anterior marginal area less strongly punctate than the remaining 

 surface, which is also moderately rugulose, a fine central longi- 

 tudinal carinate line ; scutellum a little centrally foveately depressed 

 near base where there are a few coarse punctures ; corium with 

 the veins prominent, clavus very thickly and coarsely, remaining 

 surface more sparingly punctate ; membrane subhyaline, closely 

 finely veined ; sternum thickly and finely punctate ; abdomen 

 beneath with a central longitudinal narrow black fascia, smooth, 

 with three approximate brownish punctures on each side of the 

 black line at the base of the third segment, and two or three 

 similar punctures on the second segment ; apex of the rostrum 

 black ; other structural characters as detailed in the generic 

 diagnosis. 



Length 19 to 20 millim. 



Ilab. Ceylon; Kandy (Green). — China (Brit. Mns.). 



2761. Acestra malayana, Bist. Fascic. Malay, i, pt. ii, p. 245, t. xv, 



f. 7 (1903). 



Ochraceous with an olivaceous tint ; eyes black, between eyes, 

 including the ocelli, a posteriorly curved fascia of black punctures ; 

 two small linear black lines on disk of anterior pronotal area ; head 

 above finely punctate, a very short central black line between the 

 latitude of the antennae and that of the eyes, produced central lobe 

 not haired as in A. sinica ; antennae olivaceous or brownish, 

 smooth, non-pilose, first and fourth joints longest and subequal in 

 length, first moderately thickened towards apex, second and third 

 slender and subequal in length, fourth slender, curved, a little 

 paler near base ; pi'onotum thickly coarsely punctate, except a 

 subauterior marginal area which is almost smooth, and at lateral 

 margins of which there is a curved black line ; scutellum punctate, 

 the apical area smooth and on which there is a foveate spot ; corium 

 with the veins prominent, coarsely punctate, the clavus more 

 densely punctate ; membrane subhyaline, closely finely veined ; 

 abdomen above testaceous, marginally piceous ; the connexivum 

 pale brownish, posterior margin of the third and fourth segments 

 broadly paler ; mesosternum with two longitudinal black lines ; 

 metasternum with a central black line ; abdomen beneath with a 

 faint and indistinct central longitudinal darker line ; rostrum about 

 reaching posterior coxae, its apex black. 



Length 18| millim. 



Hub. Burma; Taunggyi (Thompson). — Siamese Malay States 

 (Annandale Sf Robinson). 



Genus DULICHIUS. (Vol. I, p. 407.) 



2762. Dulichius thompsoni, Uist. Ann. Soc Ent. Bcl(/. xlvii, p. 43 



(1903). 



Piceous; hemelytra and antennae brownish-piceous ; rostrum, 



