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Exithemus similis, sp. nov. 



One specimen from above Tura, ix.igiy. 



Resembling E. assaynensis but differing from it in the absence 

 of the linear, levigate fascia on the anterior area of the pronotum 

 and head ; the scutellum is not paler in hue on its central disk, 

 but is concolourous and evenly punctured throughout and has 

 two small, almost contiguous, black spots near the centre of disk; 

 the abdomen is pale yellowish ochraceous and the black fascia 

 on the lateral area is less distinct, and extends to the apex of the 

 fifth abdominal segment, a large, longitudinal, black fascia oc- 

 cupies the centre of the remaining apical segments ; there is no 

 large, black spot on the femora beneath a little before the apex, 

 the apices of the tibiae and tarsi are brownish ochraceous ; the 

 antennae are pale ochraceous with the apices of the second and 

 third joints narrowly, and the apical halves of the fourth and 

 fifth joints brownish- black. 



Length 12 millim.; breadth between pronotal angles 7*5 

 millim. 



Type No. 8369/Hi in the collection of the Zoological Survey 

 of India. 



Compastes bhutanicus (DalL). 



Four specimens from above Tura. 



Recorded from Bhutan, Sikkim, Assam and Burma. 



Priassus exemptus (Walk,). 



One specimen from above Tura. 



Known from the Naga Hills and Tenasserim. 



Rhynchocoris humeralis (Thunb.). 



One specimen from Tura, 1,400 ft., x.1917 and one specimen 

 from above Tura. 



Recorded from Sikkim, Assam and Burma. 



Catacanthus incarnatus (Dru.). 



One specimen from Tura, 1,200-1, 500ft., 15.vi-15.vii.1917. 

 Almost universally distributed. 



Nezara viridula (Linn.). 



One specimen from above Tura. 



Common all over India, Burma and Ceylon. 



Menida varipennis (West.). 



Three specimens from above Tura, 15.vii-3i.viii and ix.1917; 

 occurring in Sikkim, Khasi Hills and Tenasserim. 



