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with the second and third joints bhick ; rostrum kiteous, first 

 joint longer than the second; membrane pale semihyaline : body 

 beneath imperfectly seen, owing to the unique example described 

 being in a carded condition. 



Length 3g miilim. 



Hah. Burma ; Kareunee (Fea).* 



b. Bead red, concolorous with hodtj. 



739. Geocoris rutilus, sp. n. 



Body above and beneath with legs bright coral-red ; apical 

 angle and extreme lateral margin of corium black ; membrane 

 pale fuscous, the basal area blackish ; antennas mutilated in 

 specimen described ; rostrum with the first joint longer than 

 the second : body above sparingly punctate, head and disk of 

 corium impunctate. 



Length 4| miilim. 



Hah. Burma; Rangoon {Coll. Dist.). 



c. Head more or less hlack. 



740. Geocoris jucundus, Fieb. (Ophthalmicus) Wien. ent. Man. v, 



p. 270 (1861). 



Head and pronotum black ; a marginal spot on each side of 

 head in front of eyes, a small central spot on the anterior and 

 posterior mai'gins, and the lateral angular areas of the pronotum 

 pale ochraceous ; scutellum black ; corium pale ochraceous, on 

 apical margin near inner angle a sm.all brown s])ot ; membrane 

 obscure ochraceous, semihyaline : body beneath black ; anterior 

 margin of presternum and acetabula greyish-white ; coxse and 

 legs luteous ; rostrum ochraceous, bases of first and third joints 

 and the apex black, first joint longer than second ; antennae 

 fuscous, first joint, apex of third, and the whole of fourth joint 

 luteous; body above coarsely punctate; disk of corium im- 

 p luictate. 



Length 3 miilim. 



Hah. Bengal ; Ranchi (Irvine), Calcutta. Burma ; Karennee 

 (Fea). 



B. Lateral margins of corium distinctly convex, attenuated 

 posteriorly. 



741. Geocoris ornatus, Fieb. (Ophthalmicus) Wien. ent. Man. v, 



p. 275 (1861). 



Ophthalmicus discifer, If'alk. Cat. Het. v, p. 139 (1872). 



* Under the vague habitat of " Ostioclien/' Fieber has described and figured 

 a species as Ophthalmicus plagiat us (Ent. Monogr. p. 119, pi. x, f. 3, 1844). I 

 have not seen an example from British India, and therefore do not inchide it 

 in the enumeration. 



