PRIOXACA. — CATACANTHUS. 139 



punctate and rugulose, with scattered ochraceous mot Mings, a 

 central ochraceous line not reaching base, on each side of which 

 is a levigate ochraceous spot, lateral angles robust, somewhat 

 stronglv, laterally and a little upwardly produced, their apices 

 shortly' acute, their margins serrate, lateral pronotal marguis 

 shortly obtusely dentate ; sciitellum thickly punctate, three levigate 

 ochraceous spots at base, one at each basal angle, and the third 

 central, the lateral and apical margins very narrouly and obscurely 

 dull ochraceous; corii.m thickly punctate, a somewhat hirge 

 irreo-ular im punctate ochraceous spot a little behind middle ot disk ; 

 membrane pale bronzv-browu : counexivum pale testaceous spotted 

 with black; sternum black, greyishly tomentose, finely punctate ; 

 abdomen dull ochraceous, the spiracles and lateral marguKil spots 

 black ; coxae and femora ochraceous, apical areas of femora, and 

 the whole of the tibi^ and tarsi, black ; rostrum just reaching 

 the posterior cox«, its apex black ; abdominal spine not extending 

 beyond the posterior coxse ; sternum distinctly centrally sulcate. 



Length, d iU, $ 10:1 ; breadth between pronotal angles, 

 J 7, $ 8 millim. 

 Hab. Sikkim ; Kurseong. 



G-enus DEGONETUS. (Vol. I, p. 2()8.) 

 Degonetus serratus. (Vol. I, p. 209.) 

 Add: Rah. Bombay; Matheran (P«.9« Coll.). 



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

 3713. Placosternum ficusius, sp. n. 



A short, broad species allied to P. taurus (vol. i, p. 209, fig. 132), 

 but with the lateral margins of the pronotum much less strongly 

 dentate, the punctures finer and less confluent, the lateral spines 

 shorter and only unisinuate ; scutellum more finely and regularly 

 punctate, the punctures non-confluent ; corium more finely and 

 less confluently punctured; apex of scutellum more broadly 



rounded. 



Length 19; breadth between pronotal angles 14 mihim. 

 Hah° Simla (on Banian tree). Dehra Dun. 



Genus AMBLYCARA. (Vol. I, p. 217.) 



Amblycaria gladiatoria, (Vol. I, p. 217.) 

 Add : Hah. Australia; Queensland (F. P. Bodd). 



Genus CATACANTHUS. (Vol. I, p. 218.) 



Breddin (Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. liii, p. 276 (1909)) has described 

 a species ( C horm) which he had recorded as a variety ot 

 C. incarnatus in 1903. It is from Ceylon. 



