1918.] C. Paiva: Rhyiichotn of the inle LaJce. ^5 



Propleura with a black spot almost touching the lateral spot on the 

 pronotiim. Mesopleura with a black impressed line, silvery pubescent, 

 slightly sinuate anteriorly, not reaching the posterior margin. All the 

 acetabula with a silvery pubescent black spot at base. 



Sternum pale ochraceous with scanty silvery pubescence ; a central 

 and two lateral black lines, the central line extending from the proster- 

 num to the apical segment of the abdomen, the lateral lines from the 

 front acetabula to near the intermediate acetabula. 



Length 4-25 millim. 



Type No. 7124/11. 1. in the collection of the Zoological Survey of 

 India. 



Ventidius distanti, sp. nov. 

 (Plate VIII, fig. 4.) 



Described from several specimens in alcohol, from the top of the 

 gorge of the He-Ho River, Yawnghwe State, ca. 3,500 ft., 7-iii-1917. 



Apterous form. — Head black with a large patch at base, and a 

 transverse fascia at apex of face yellowish ochraceous ; eyes silvery 

 grey, with a black patch on the disk ; antennae black, basal half of 

 first joint yellowish. 



Pronotum very short, black, a narrow ochraceous waved fascia 

 at basal margin, anterior margin slightly concave, posterior margin 

 almost straight. Mesonotum large, about as long as its greatest breadth, 

 covered with decumbent hairs, disk obliquely striate on anterior area, 

 ochraceous, with two broad lateral black fasciae curved inwards 

 anteriorly and meeting narrowly on anterior margin, each extended 

 posteriorly to meet a curved fascia on the intermediate acetabula ; a 

 large subtriangular patch at centre of posterior margin ; the posterior 

 lateral angles narrowly dull black. 



Metanotum dull black with a small ochraceous spot near each basal 

 angle. 



Abdomen above dull white, the basal segment, a spot at lateral 

 margin of each segment and the apical segment black. 



Underside pale ochraceous ; legs black, base of anterior femora 

 ochraceous. 



Length 3 millim. 



Type No. 7125/H. I. in the collection of the Zoological Survey of 

 India. 



Metrocoris nigrofasciatus, Dist. 



Meirocoris niyrofasciatus, Distant, Faun. Brit. I ml., Bhyn. V (Appendix), p. 159. 



Several specimens from foot of Elephant Hill near Yawnghwe, 

 17-ii-1917, and 6-iii-1917. 



A few from a pool at the western foot of Pagoda Hill, He-Ho, 3,800 

 ft., Yawnghwe State, 9-iii-1917. Four specimens from a small stream 

 near Fort Stedman, Yawnghwe State, ca. 3,500 ft., 3-iii-1917. 



A somewhat variable species with a wide distribution having been 

 recorded from the base of the Western Himalayas, Lower Burma, the 

 Malay Peninsula and Siam. It probably also occurs in the Eastern 

 Himalayas and Assam. 



