190 HYDROMETEID^. 



purplish-brown ; pronotum with two large ovate luteous spots, 

 each divided by an elongate black spot which is clavate at each 

 end ; on anterior disk a curved oblique luteous spot inwardly 

 margined with black on each side of posterior area ; a pale greyish 

 spot on upper sides of both intermediate and posterior coxae ; 

 abdomen with a segmental series of transverse black spots on each 

 side ; body beneath and bases of anterior femora luteous. Ovate, 

 widest at middle, where it is obtusely augulate ; antennte piceous, 

 base of first joint ochraceous ; rostrum luteous, its apex piceous ; 

 intermediate femora slightly longer and stouter than j^osterior 

 femora ; anterior tibiae stout, slightly shorter than femora. 



5. Length 3| millim. 



Hah. Ceylon {Green, Brit. Mas.). 



9S(). Metrocoris stall, Bohm (Halobates), Steft. eiit. Zeit. xxi, p. 408 

 (1860). 

 Metrocoris brevis, Mai/r, J'er/i. z.-h. Ges. Wien, xv, p. Mo (I8G0) ; 

 id. Reise Nov., Hem. p. 179, pi. i, f. 56 (1866). 



Above black, opaque ; head dull flavous-testaceous, with a large 

 central and three smaller anterior spots black ; pronotum with 

 two anterior semicircular spots, on the posterior area two parallel 

 longitudinal spots, one on each side shaped like a comma, another 

 on each side transverse and semicircular, a third smaller spot on 

 each side at the apex of the disk, more posteriorly one transverse, 

 two longitudinal, and three smaller apical spots flavous-testaceous; 

 lateral areas and body beneath flavous-testaceous, the first with 

 longitudinal black streaks ; anterior coxa^ excepting a black spot 

 above, and the femora, excepting three more or less broad black 

 lines, flavous-testaceous ; antenna), intermediate and posterior legs, 

 and anterior tibiae blackish ; rostrum flavous-testaceous, its apex 

 black. 



Length 7 millim. 



Hah. Nilgiri Hills {Maindron). Ceylon {fide Dolirn S,- Mayr). 



Genus CHIMARRHOMETRA. 



Chimarrhometra, Biamhi, Aanuaire Mas, St. Petersb, 1896, p. 71. 



Type, C. orie)italis, Dist. 



Distribution. Oriental Eegion. 



Basal joint of anterior tarsi nearly twice as long as the second ; 

 anterior femora much iucrassated, much thicker than the middle 

 ones ; intermediate and posterior tarsi robust, not nearly hair-like ; 

 second joint of the antennae more than two-thirds the length of 

 the third. 



987. Chimarrhometra orientalis, Hist. (Ilalobates?) Tr. H. S. 

 1879, p. 126; id. (geu. ?) Sec. Yark. Miss., Rhijnch. p. 12, ff". 11, 

 12 (1879) ; Bianchi, Annuaire Mus. St. Petersb. 1896, p. 71. 



Brownish-ochraceous, finely pilose ; antennae with the first joint 



