MICBONECTA. 345 



length, the posterior margin subangularly convex ; elytra ochra- 

 ceous mottled with castaueous, the costal margin broadly ])i(le 

 ochraceous shaded with oa.staneous ou its apical area ; body be- 

 neath and legs ochraceous, face with the lateral margins straight 

 not oblique ; posterior tarsi streaked above with blackish. 



Length 5g millim. 



Hah. Nepal ; Khatmandu. 



Allied to the preceding species by the narrower head, but 

 differing by the head and face not margined with blackish and by 

 the latter having the lateral margins straight and parallel, not 

 oblique, the fewer transverse blackish lines to the pronotum, &c. 



Genus MICRONECTA. (Vol. IIJ, p. oU.) 



Only two species were included when previously enumerating 

 those of Micronecta as found in British India. Fourteen are now 

 added, bringing up the total to sixteen species. Three of these 

 were described and figured by Fieber under the locality " Ost- 

 iudien." These I then hesitated to include on such a loose 

 habitat without corroboration, but as some of my colleagues have 

 dissented from that restriction I have followed their opinion, 

 especially as of the four described by Fieber I have now received 

 two species. Figures are given of the species described as new. 

 Fieber has figured his ; and the only problems are those described 

 by Kirkaldy, which are in some cases insufficiently diagnosed and 

 which 1 have had no opportunity of seeing. 



3122. Micronecta hicina, sp, u. 



Head ochraceous ; eyes black ; pronotum, scutellum and elytra 

 olivaceous-brown marked with pitchy-black fasciate lines ; pro- 

 notum with two transverse lines, the anterior one broken in the 



Fig. 207. — Micronecta lucina. 



middle ; scutellum with a transverse fasciate line near base ; 

 clavus with three oblique fasciate lines on each side, the outermost 

 marginal ; corium with four longitudinal fasciate lines, the outer- 

 most and innermost united before apex, two lateral marginal lines, 

 the intervening paler space between them a little notched near 



