324 APPENDIX. NAUCOEID^, 



broad at base between eyes as medially long ; body proportionally 

 narrower and more elongate. 



Length 9 milliin. 



Hah. W. Bengal : Manbhum {Hallowes). 



Montandon's type is here figured. 



Heleocoeis elongatus. (Vol. Ill, p. 31.) 



I now figure a dark variety of this species, of which several have 

 been recently received. " Indes orientales " being the only habitat 



Fig. 185.— Heleocoris elongatus, var. 



then recorded, it is satisfactory to be now able to locate it more 

 precisely. 



Add : Sah. Bengal ; Paresnath (Annandale, Ind. Mus.), 

 Matheran {Pusa Coll). 



Genus NAUCORIS. 



Naucoris, Fabr. Sysf. Ent. p. 693 (1775); Fieb. Gen. Hydroc. p. 16 



(1851) ; id. Eur. Hem. pp. 32 & 102 (1861) ; St&l, Hem. Afr. 



iii, p. 176 (1865) ; id. En. Hem. y, p. 142 (1876) ; Saund. He?n. 



Het. Brit. Islds. p. 325 (1892) ; Oshan. Verz. Fal. Hem. Het. 



iii, p. 959 (1909). 

 Ilyocoris, StaX. Of v. Vet.-Ak. Fork. 1861, p. 201 ; id. Hem. Afr. iii, 



p. 175 (1865) ; id. En. Het. v, p. 142 (1876). 



Type, iV. maculatus, Fabr., a Palaearctic species. 



Distribution. Palaearctic, Ethiopian, Oriental, Malayan, and 

 Australasian Regions. 



" Broad, oblong, oval ; head and eyes buried in the pronotum so 

 that the sides of the pronotum, eyes, and front of the head form a 

 continuous curve ; head very wide, twice as wide as long ; rostrum 

 short, three-jointed, almost triangular : pronotum with the base 

 only slightly wider than the anterior margin ; elytra nearly 

 (or quite) covering the apex of the abdomen ; connexivum clothed 

 at the sides with long hairs, with the posterior angles of the seg- 

 ments produced ; anterior femora very much dilated, tibiae curved, 



