284 1C1[NEU>[0NID^. 



Bassics insifpiis, Gravenhorst, op. cit. p. 349 ; llolnigreu, oj). cit. 



p. 360; Erischke, Schr. Nat. Ges. Danz. 1878, p. 112 ( $). 

 Bat^sus indchellns, Desvignes {7iec Ilolmg.), Tran?. Ent. Soc. Lond. 



1862, p. 221 (c?). 

 Bassus desvif/zii'sii, Marsliall, Cut. Brit. Ilyni. 1872, p. 82. 

 Homopurus tursatorins, Thomson, Opusc. P]nt. xiv, 1890, p. Io03; 



Morley, Traus. Ent. Soc. Lond. lUOo, p. 427 (d" $)• 

 Basms indicus, Cameron,* Journ, Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 1909, 



P.728(c?). 

 Var. Basnus Jhinis, Desvignes, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 18G2, 



p. 219 (J). 



A black and somewhat shining spocies, with the head, thorax, 

 and scutelluni broadly, and apices of all the abdominal segments 

 narrowly stramineous ; the legs entirely pale fulvous with only 

 the hind tarsi, and apices of their tibia), black. V^ertex more or 



Fig. 72. — Iloiiiocidus farsa/orius, Panz. 



less emargiuate; metathoracic carinas entirely wanting ; scutellum 

 simply convex and, like the postscutellum, pale ; hind tibiae red, 

 •wdth only the a])ical third black ; areolet almost invariably 

 wanting. 



Length 6 millim. ' 



, Punjab : Simla, viii. 98 (Co7. Muse). Europe. 



Ty2)^- Location unknown ; that of Bassiis indicus in Col. 

 Nurse's collection. 



This is the only species of Bassides I know that may or may 

 not possess an areolet ; when present (var. Jlavas, Desv.) it is 

 very small and oblique, consisting of little more than the dupli- 

 cation of its basal nervure ; this form is, however, very rare 

 indeed. 



The typical male of B. indicus, which I have examined, differs 

 from the usual European form of this species in nothing but its 

 more deeply transitnpressed metanotum, which is in no way 

 carinate, and its somewhat less prominent petiolar spiracles ; 

 there can remain no doubt respecting their identity. 



