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shorter than any of the remaining joints, which are subequal, a 

 somewhat deep, longitudinal sulcation on disk of abdomen 

 beneath extending to the apical margin of the sixth segment. 



Length i6*5 millim., breadth between pronotal angles 5 millim. 



Type No, 8371/H1 in the collection of the Zoological Survey 

 of India. 



Hygia touchei (Dist.) var. 



Three specimens from above Tura. 



These specimens differ from the typical form in being black 

 instead of piceous brown; the legs are entirely black with no 

 ochraceous markings. 



Recorded from Sikkim. 



Dasynus relatus, sp. nov. 



Described from three specimens from above Tura. 



Brownish ochraceous, thickly and darkly punctate; corium 

 purplish; membrane fuscous brown, its basal angle darker ; anten- 

 nae black, the apical joint ochraceous with the base narrowly 

 black ; legs and underside ochraceous; antennae with the first joint 

 slightly incrassated towards apex, first and second joints equally 

 long, longer than the third and fourth, which are subequal; head 

 a little longer than breadth between eyes, with a few minute 

 scattered black punctures, which are most dense in a central 

 longitudinal groove situated between the ocelli ; apex of head 

 broad, pale ochraceous; rostrum ochraceous, its extreme apex 

 black, extending to base of mesosternum ; pronotum densely punc- 

 tate, the lateral margins narrowly black, posterior pronotal angles 

 prominent, obtusely angulate and slightly recurved, disk of 

 pronotum with a pale, faint, central, longitudinal carina, posterior 

 marginal area of pronotum with a somewhat deep, transverse sul- 

 cation; scutellum brownish ochraceous, its apex pale and impunc- 

 tate, the anterior area deeply punctured, transversely rugulose ; 

 coriaceous portion of hemelytra blackly punctate, outer portion 

 of corium purplish, remainder brownish ochraceous, costal mar- 

 gin of corium ochraceous; abdomen above reddish ochraceous, 

 the lateral margins of the sixth and the greater part of the apical 

 two segments dull black ; connexivum ochraceous ; a small black 

 spot on the lateral areas of the meso- and metasterna and a 

 similar spot near the middle of the lateral areas of the second, 

 third, fourth and fifth abdominal segments below. 



Length 17-21 millim., breadth between pronotal angles 6-8 

 millim. 



Type No. 8372/Hi in the collection of the Zoological vSurvey 

 of India. 



Cletus punctulatus (Westw.). 



One specimen from above Tura. 



Recorded from Sikkim and the hills of Assam. 



