28 APPENDIX. LTG.^ID.'E, 



and abdomeu stramineous ; legs black, apices of femora and the 

 tibiae and tarsi more or less ochraceous ; corium stramineous with 

 a large blackish discal spot widening to membranal division ; 

 membrane dull greyish, sometimes infuscate ; antenna? robust, 

 with short semi-erect hairs, second joint longest, third shortest, 

 rostrum piceous, about reaching ])osterior coxa? ; head with an 

 oblique foveate depression on each side before the eyes ; pronotum 



Fig. 11. — Geocor/s puri. 



coarsely punctate except on lateral margins, with a faint central 

 longitudinal carination and two transverse cicatrices on anterior 

 area ; scutellum less strongly punctate, the apical area spai'ingly 

 punctate and with a faint central paler carinate line; corium 

 finely and sparsely punctate, the punctures more distinct and in 

 longitudinal series on the claval area and on subcostal area of 

 corium. 



Var. Corium nearly wholly black, the basal angle and costal 

 areas stramineous. 



Length 3 millim. 



Hab. Bengal ; Orissa ; Puri (Annandale). 



Geocoris jucundus. (Vol. II, p. 31.) 



Mr. E. E. Green has recently sent me two specimens of this 

 species from Ceylon, one is typical, the other varietal. 



A^ar. a. Basal and anterior margins as Mell as the lateral 

 angular areas of the pronotum pale ochraceous. 



A third specimen also received from Mr. Green appears to be 

 only a blanched form, but its position, pending the examination of 

 more matei'ial, is uncertain. 



Add: — Hab. Cejdon ; Colombo (Green). 



"Erom sandy compound, amongst short wiry grass." (E. E. 

 Green in Hit.) 



