"320 APPENDIX. NAUCORID^. 



rather elongate einboliuin scarcely contracted near its base, the 

 basal tvA'o-thirds of the embolium lighter and narrowly yellow on 

 the margin, the pale colour uneven at its internal edge ; claval 

 commissure shorter than the scutellum ; membrane well developed 

 and valvular, entirely black ; connexivum plainly visible above . . . ; 

 body beneath uniformly black, except the lateral edges of the 

 prosternum and the underside of the corium which ax'e yellow ; 

 h-gs pale yellow." (Montandon.) 



Length 10 millim. ; max. breadth 5*4 millim. 



Hah. Trichiiiopoly {Dxibreuil^ Coll. Montand.). 



I have not seen this species. 



Genus HELEOCORIS. (Vol. Ill, p. 29.) 



I am now able to add four more species to the British 

 Indian enumeration of this genus, and to figure three of the 

 species formerly included but then not seen by the -writer. 

 Dr. Montandon, who is the special authority on these insects, has 

 greatly assisted me in the determinations. 



Heleocoris beeviceps. (Vol. Ill, p. 29.) 



I now figure a specimen of this species which I have received 



Fig. ISO. — Heleocoris hrcvicejis. 



from the Bombay State, and which has also been identified as such 

 by Dr. Montandon. 



3096. Heleocoris majusculus, Montand. Anyi. Mus. Nat. Jiumj. vi, 

 p. 301 (1908). 



" Oval in form, posteriorly enlarged, a little attenuated anteriorly, 

 of a uniform dark brown, with the margins of the pronotum, the 

 embolium and the connexivum yellow ; head transverse, intraocular 

 space a little less than twice as broad as long and very plainly 

 more than twice broader than the width of an eye, internal margius 

 of the eyes subparallel, slightly obtusely sinuate ; . . . surface of the 

 head superficially punctate, the punctuation a little granulose, more 



