294 



REDUYIID.E. 



Ectomocoris coloratus, Mai/r, Verh. z.-b. Ges. Wien, xv, p. 438 



(1865). 

 Pirates sexmaculatus, Walk. Cat. Het. vii, p. 116 (1873). 

 Pirates decisiis, Walk. loc. cit. p. 118. 



Piceous-black : posterior lobe of pronotum, antennae, rostrum, 



legs, marginal spots, and some- 

 times the whole of lateral abdo- 

 minal margins, ochraceous; hem- 

 elytra with two subbasal, a 

 transverse discal, and apical spots 

 pale luteous ; antennae finely 

 pilose, second joint about as long 

 as anterior lobe of pronotuin, 

 which is smooth and obscurely 

 longitudinally striate ; legs pilose. 



Length 14 to 17 millim. 



Hah. North Bengal (Brit. 

 Mks.) ; Bombay ; Bor Ghat 

 (Z)/.ro») ; Pondicherry (Coll. Si{/- 

 noret). Ceylon (Green). 



Walker, in his description of 

 P. decisus (suprci), has omitted 

 to mention that the posterior 

 lobe of the pronotum is testaceous. 



Ectomocoris quadrigutfaUis. 



1157. Ectomocoris posticus, Walk. (Pirates) Cat. Het. vii, 

 (1873) ; Dist. A. M. N. H. (7) x, p. 282 (1902). 

 Eumenes flaviger, Stdl, En. Hem. iv, p. 61 (1874). 



115 



Black ; apex of head, antenna?, rostrum, posterior lobe of pro- 

 notum, conuexivum above and beneath, lateral margins of meso- 

 and metasterna, and legs ochraceous ; corium luteous, membrane 

 black, its basal area luteous, its apex obscure greyish : antennae 

 pilose, second joint almost as long as pronotum ; spongy furrow 

 occupying more than two-thirds of under surface of anterior tibiae. 



Var. Membrane with a black basal spot. 



Length 16 to 18 millim. 



Hah. "North Lidia " (Brit. Mas.). — Egypt; Ghizeh (tloiver, 

 Brit. Miis.). 



b. Pronotum unicolorous. 



a. Ler/s ochraceous, unicolorous. 



1158. Ectomocoris ochropterus, Sttd, Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Fork. 1866, 

 p. 256 ; Heut. (Eumerus) Act. Soc. So. Fenn. xii, p. 314 (1881). 



Black ; first joint and basal area of second joint of antennae, 

 rostrum, clavus, corium, basal third of membrane, lateral margins 

 of abdomen and legs ochraceous ; inner margin of clavus, a linear 



