GOKATAS. 89 



ochraceous ; antennae piceous, base of second joint castaueous, 

 nearly apical half of third joint creamy-white. 



Length 8 to 9 millini. 



Hah. Ceylon {Green). — Walker's type was from Siam. 



b. Corhim u'ith distinct siihapical pale macular patch. 



825. LethaBUS descriptus, Walk. (Rhyparochromus) Cat. Het. v, 

 p. 103 (1872). 

 Rhyparochromus alienus, Walk. torn. cit. p. 105. 

 Lethfeus signatus, Dist. A. M. N. H. (7) viii, p. 506 (1901). 



Head, pronotum, and scutellum piceous ; pronotum with two 

 small ochraceous spots on each side of posterior margin, and the 

 lateral and anterior margins very narrowly ochraceous ; corium 

 ochraceous, punctured with brown, a spot near base, a large 

 median patch, and the apex piceous, between the median patch and 

 apex is enclosed a pale luteous irregular macular space ; clavus with 

 two small ochraceous spots on each side ; antennae fuscous, base of 

 first joint and sometimes the whole of second joint pale castaneous 

 or ochraceous, apex of third joint pale luteous ; membrane greyish 

 brown with the veins darker : body beneath black, legs dark 

 castaneous; lateral margins of sternum, anterior margin of meso- 

 sternum, tibioe, tarsi and rostrum ochraceous ; apex of rostrum 

 piceous. 



Length 9 millim. 



Hub. Naga Hills {Dolierty). Ceylon ; Kandy, Yatiyantota 

 {Green). Tenasserim ; Myitta {Dohertii). — North Borneo {Brit. 

 Mas.). 



A somewhat variable species in the ochraceous markings. 



Genus GONATAS. 

 Gonatas, Dist. Biol. Centr.-Amer., Rhijnch. \, p. 219 (1882). 



Type, G. ti/picus, Dist., from Central America. 



Distribution. Neotropical and Oriental Regions. 



Head rather longer than broad and, including outer margins of 

 eyes, a little narrower than anterior margin of pronotum ; antennae 

 with the thi-ee basal joints more or less hirsute, first joint passing 

 apex of head, second longest ; pronotum broader than long, 

 anterior margin narrower than basal, the lateral margins mode- 

 rately ampliated, anterior angles rounded and with an obscure 

 central transverse impression, posterior margin more or less 

 concave at base of scutellum ; scutellum triangulai-, a little longer 

 than broad ; anterior femora moderately thickened, with a few 

 small spines beneath near apex ; intermediate and posterior tibiae 

 setose ; rostrum reaching intermediate coxae, first joint reaching 

 base of head. 



