208 APPENDIX. — REDUVIID.E. 



scutellum is as Stal described it. My desci-iption aud figure of 

 S. collaris {siipra) must perforce, as suggested by Bergroth, be 

 taken to represent S. leucomesus. Walk. 



On the Binding Islands Mr. H. N. Eidley reports this species 

 as "doing good work in killing the Sphingid Moth, Cephoriodes 

 hylas." 



2985. Sycaims collaris, Fabr. (Keduvius) Spec. Ins. ii, p. 380 (1781) ; 



Sm, En. Hem. iv, p. 28 (1874) ; Dist. (part.) toI. ii, p. 351. 



In markings aud coloration almost exactly resembling 8. leuco- 

 mesus. Walk., but differing by the short, cylindrical obtuse spine, 

 the apex of which is entire and uot bifid. 



Length S 22-23 millim. 



Uab. Bengal; Cej^on {Green). — Malacca. 



2986. Sycanus albofasciatus, Bergr. Beutsche ent. Zeitschr. 1908, 



p. 590. 



Black ; a transverse fascia behind middle of corium, and con- 

 nexivum above and beneath, very pale stramineous or reddisli 

 ochraceous (in the S 'ind $ specimens now before me the 

 markings in the $ are stramineous and in the J reddish 

 ochraceous) ; elongate ; palely pilose ; antenna with the basal 

 joint as long as head, second about half the length of first ; 

 prouotum with the anterior lobe with two oblique bands on each 

 side which are densely pilose, a short obtuse tubercle at each 

 anterior angle, the posterior lobe strongly rugulose ; scutellum 

 armed with an erect conical tubercle ; hemelytra passing the 

 abdominal apex ; corium transversely rugulose ; abdomen laterally 

 moderately dilated and sinuate, with the apices of the segments a 

 little prominent. 



Length, 6 18, $ 24 miUim. 



Hah. Madras Province ; Palni Hills, Kodaikanal {coll. Dist.) ; 

 Trichinopoly {fide Bergroth). 



Allied to S. indagator, Stal (vol. ii, p. 355). I have to thank 

 Dr. Montandon for giving me co-types, c^ and $ , of this 

 species. 



Genus MACRACANTHOPSIS. (V^ol. II, p. 362.) 



2987. Macracanthopsis nigripes, Dist. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. liii, 

 p. 371 (1909). 



Head, pronotum, scutellum, aud body beneath luteous ; antenna) 

 and spines behind their base, eyes, hemelytra, legs, and lateral 

 margins of abdomen beneath, black : abdomen beneath more 

 stramineous than luteous ; autennae with the first joint as long as 

 the head, pronotum, and scutellum together; head about as long 

 as pronotum, transversely impressed between the eyes ; spines 



