322 APPENDIX. XAUCOMDiE. 



transversely striate on the anterior area, a distinct trans\erse im- 

 pression a little beyond basal margin but not extending much beyond 

 the basal angles of the scutellum, the lateral margins distinctly 

 rounded ; scutellum black, its apex ochraceous, strongly and 

 mostly transversely wrinkled ; hemelytra black, thickly finely 

 punctate, the basal lateral margins or lateral margins of embolium 

 ochraceous, inwardly irregularly defined, claval suture longer than 

 scutellum and apically spotted with ochraceous ; connexivum 

 ochi'aceous, veiy finely spotted with black : body beneath blackish, 

 very thickly and finely shortly greyishly pilose ; head beneath and 

 legs ochraceous ; abdomen beneath with a central longitudinal series 

 of black spots, the lateral margins ochraceous. 



Length 12 millim. ; breadth 9'4 millim. 



Hah. Trichinopoly {Duhreuil, Coll. Montand. Sf Brit. Mus.). 



The figure is taken from a typical specimen received from 

 Dr. Montandon. 



Heleocobis obliquatus. (Vol. Ill, p. 31.) 



When previously enumerating this species {supra), I mentioned 

 that I neither knew it nor of any collection that contained an 

 authentically identified specimen. I have recently received a 

 specimen from Lower Burma which I submitted to Dr. Montandon, 



Fig. 182. — Hchocoris obliquatus. 



and he has identified it with little doubt as Spinola's ohliqtiatus. I 

 therefore now figure that specimen, and to the Habitat " Bombay " 

 must be added Lower Burma. 



3098. HeleOCOris vicinus, Montand. Bull. Soc. Set. Bucurest, xix, 

 p. 655 (1910). 



Head about twice as broad at base between eyes as medially 

 long, rounded in front, ochraceous, ix-regularly speckled with black 

 and with a central black spot widest at base and narrowed in front ; 

 pronotum more than twice as broad at base as uiedially long, 



