IIOMOCIUL'S. 283 



200. Homocidus ductus, Grav. 



Basst(.< ciucfus, Gravenhorst, Iclin. Eur. iii, 18i'0, p. oiT : ILilin- 

 irren, Sv. Ak. Ilandl. I800, p. 8")G; Volleuhoven, Piiiac. pi. i, 

 tig. (3 ( c?) ; id., Tijds. Eut. 1878, p. 162 ( $ ). 



BassHs lateralis, Graveuhorst, op. cit. p. 341* ( J ) : Holmgren, op. 

 cit. p. o5.) ; A'olleuhoveii, Piiiac. pi. i, fig. o ( J § ). 



Jjagsns albkinctus, Desvigiie.'^, Trans. Ent. Soc. Loud. 1862, p. 218 



Bassiis hyperhoreus, Marshall,* Ent. Month. Mag. xiii, 1877, p. 241 



(J). 

 Mo7)ioporuslaferalis,Thomsn)n, Opusc. Eut. xiv, ]8!I0, p. 1492 ( (J 9 )• 

 Homoporus ductus, Morlev, Trans. Ent. Soc. l^ond. 1905. p. 420 



Kitidulous, puuctulate. black. Head iTiDv as broad as thorax ; 

 frons anterior]}" impresseil aud subcaualiculate ; mouth, clypeiis, 

 inner orbits ( $ ), or whole face (c?), flavous. Antenna' shorter 

 than body ; scape of <£ stramineous beneath. Thora.v stout and 

 gibbous, with (typical form) or without (var. scabriculus) a mark 

 before the pale tegula?. and rarely in cJ (var. nlhicinctus) pleural 

 suture and pale spots, ilavous ; areola quite distinctly delineated^ 

 entire, transAerse or subquadrate ; metathorax siibrugulose. 

 Scutellvm and sometimes postscutellam apically stramineous. 

 Abdomen with the subscabriculous three or four basal segments 

 apically Havescent throughout (typical form) or with their lateral 

 angles alone pale (var. lateralis) ; basal segment of $ subquadrate, 

 of S a little longer than broad, basally dilated, \\ith the discal 

 carinjc not very distinct. Leijs red, with the hind tarsi and apices 

 of their tibise blackish ; anterior coxa? entirely aud the hind oiiea 

 apicalh% with all the trochanters, tla\ous. Winris with transverse 

 anal nervure intercepted in or slightly below the centre. 



Length ',')h,-Q millim. 



SiE:KiM:'Darjiling, 0000 ft., ix. OS {E. Bru;ietti—l\u\. Mus.). 



EUKOPE. 



Tyjie in the Ereslau Museum. 



This species is entirely distinct in its complete metathoraeic 

 areola and pale hind femora. The synonymy of Marshall's insect, 

 which I have examined in his collection in tlie British Museutn, 

 has not before been brought forward. 



H. cinctiis has not been very widely noticed in Europe, and I 

 do not find it given anywhere as occurring further east than 

 Germany ; in Britain it is common and frequently beaten from 

 undergrowth in woods in June, but its economy is unknown. A 

 single male was taken by my friend Mr. Brunetti by sweeping 

 grass and low herbage at Darjiling. 



201. Homocidus tarsatorius, Pz. 



Bnssus tarsatorius, Panzer, Faun, (lerni. ix, 180'"), p. 1(12 : (iraven- 



horst, lehn. Eur. iii, 1829, ]>. 9;52. 

 Baasus c.ridtans, Gravenliorst, op. cit. p. .'528 (d): Katzeburg, 



Ichn. d. Forst. i, p. 122: Holmgren, Sv. Ak. Ilandl. 1805, p. ;{59- 



( c? ? ), excl. var. I . 



