162 APPENDIX. HrDROMETKID.E. 



at base ; pro- and mesonota ocliraceous ; pronotiim auteriorly, 

 sublaterally, and centrally longitudinally black ; mesonotum with 

 three longitudinal black fasciae not reaching the posterior margin, 

 the central fascia straight, the other two broader and slightly 

 cui'ved, a more obsolete black fascia on each lateral margin ; body 

 beneath ochraceous ; anterior femora ochraceous broadly outwardly 

 streaked w ith black, anterior tibia? and tarsi black, intermediate 

 and posterior legs black, intermediate femora beneath streaked 

 with ochraceous, coxse and trochanters ochraceous with black 

 markings ; abdomen above black, with a large longitudinal lateral 

 ochraceous spot and with a small spot of the same colour above the 

 insertion of the intermediate legs ; structural characters as in 

 generic diagnosis. 



Length [i^ millim. 



Hub. Kumaon ; Bhim Tal, 4500 ft. (Aiinandale). 



A single apterous specimen taken b}' Dr. Anuandale and now 

 in the Indian Museum. 



Genus EUODUS. 

 Euodus, Dist. A M. N. H. (8) v, p. 150 (1910). 



Type, E. communis, Uist. 



Distrihaiion. Northern India. 



Head slightly longer than broad, the angles in front of eyes 

 slightly prominent; eyes oblique, their inner margins rounded, 

 moderately extending over the lateral margins of the pronotum ; 

 antennae with the first joint longest, a little curved, shorter than 

 the anterior tibiae, second and third joints about equal in length, 

 each shorter than first and longer than fourth ; rostrum slightly 

 passing the anterior coxae ; pronotum short, shorter tkan head, 

 narrower than mesonotum, the lateral margins a little rounded, 

 posterior margin truncate and very slightly sinuate ; mesonotum 

 large, posteriorly widened, nearly twice broader at base than 

 long, centrally longitudinally impressed, the anterior angles dis- 

 tinctly projecting beyond the pronotum, the lateral margins oblique, 

 the basal margin truncate, laterally obliquely subangularly rounded 

 to humeral angles, the basal area with two transverse, curved 

 carinate lines, the anterior one laterally continued upward ; 

 abdomen above, in male, with the margins upwardly laminately 

 produced and reflexed, tlie lateral margins convexly produced, the 

 posterior segmental margin before the anal a])pendage truncately 

 sinuate ; anterior femora a little longer than anterior tibiae, which 

 are unarmed in both sexes, intermediate femora a little longer than 

 posterior femora, the intermediate tibia; distinctly longer than the 

 posterior tibiae. 



Allied to Metrocoris, from which it differs by the shorter and 

 broader mesonotum, the different structure of the abdomen above, 

 different shape of the head, &c. 



