PCEANTIUS. 75 



Allied to DieucJies, from whicli it differs in having the basal 

 joint of the antenna) longer than the first joint of the rostrum ; 

 by the length of the posterior legs allied to Poeanthts. 



2850. Uzza karenia, Dist A. M. N. H. (8) iii, p. 339 (1909). 



Head black ; antennae piceous, base of fourth joint pale luteous ; 

 pronotum with the anterior lobe black, the posterior lobe piceous, 

 with a central longitudinal ochraceous line, the lateral margins 

 (not reaching base) pale ochraceous ; scutellum black, the extreme 

 apex ochraceous ; cerium dark castaneous, the basal third, two 

 marginal spots beyond middle, and the apical angles ochraceous, 

 a small spot on each side of claval apex pale testaceous ; membrane 

 black, with a subcentral, waved, transverse, greyish fascia; body 

 beneath black ; rostrum and legs piceous, bases of intermediate 

 and posterior tibioe pale ochraceous ; structunal characters as in 

 generic diagnosis. 



Length 6 millim. 



Hah. Burma; Karennee. 



Genus PffiANTIUS. (Vol. II, p. 85.) 



2851. Pceantius lineatus, Stdl, En. Hem. iv, p. 162 (1874). 



Pceantius brevicollis, Bredd. Deutsch. ent. Zeitschr. 1907, p. 207. 



Head, anterior lobe of pronotum, and scutellum black, posterior 

 lobe of pronotum ochraceous, thickly blackly punctate ; lateral 

 margins of pronotum (not quite reaching base), a central longi- 

 tudinal line to posterior lobe, and near its anterior margin behind the 

 transverse impression on each side some small impunctate areas, 

 and the corium, pale ochraceous; longitudinal striae to clavus 

 (becoming obsolete towards base), and the apical area to corium 

 dark fuscous-brown, the latter crossed by a whitish transverse line 

 above which this dark area is sometinies broken up into longitu- 

 dinal bands ; membrane obscure greyish, usually reflecting the dark 

 abdomen beneath ; body beneath and legs black ; posterior margin 

 of metasternum, coxa», and bases of intermediate and posterior 

 femora pale ochraceous-yellow ; extreme apex of scutellum pale 

 yellowish ; antennae ochraceous, base of first joint, extreme apex 

 of second, third apically or nearly all, and the fourth piceous ; 

 pronotum only slightly longer than broad ; membrane scarcely 

 reaching or slightly passing abdominal apex. 



Length 4| to G millim. 



Hab. Bombay (Dixon). Bengal ; Eanchi {Irvine). Ceylon 

 {fide ^recZfZin).— Philippines (fide ShV). Japan (Lewis, Coll. 

 Dist.). 



To be separated from the other Indian species, P.festivns, Dist. 

 (vol. ii, p. 8G), by the relatively shorter and broader pronotum. 



