BiASi'icus. 337 



spotted with black ; rostrum with the first joint reaching- eyes, 

 longer than the anteocular portion of head ; postoeular portion 

 of head slightly longer than anteocular portion ; head about as 

 long as pronotum ; first joint of anteni::oe shorter than anterior 

 femora ; posterior pronotal lobe not quite twice as long as 

 anterior lobe. 



Var. a. Corium testaceous with the basal area black. 



Var. h. Resembling typical form, but with the connexivnm 

 unicolorous, pale sanguineous. 



Var. c. Resembling var. a, but with one or two discal piceous 

 spots to posterior lobe of pronotum ; femora biannulated with 

 ochraceous. 



Length 10 to 11 milliin. 



Bah. Assam ; Margherita (Doherty). Burma ; Karennee, 

 Schwegoo Myo (Fea). Tenasserim. — Penaug {Ridley, Brit. Mus.). 

 China; Hongkong (5/-if. Mas.). 



b. Head Jonyer than pronotum. 



1237. Harpactor longifrons, Stdl (Charoutus), En. Hem. iv. p. 41 



(1874). 



I'erruginous, griseously sericeous, beneath more obscurely co- 

 loured ; lateral areas of liead behind eyes black ; membrane fuscous ; 

 abdominal margin palely spotted ; head a little longer than 

 pronotum, anteocular longer than postoeular portion ; basal joint 

 of rostrum equal in length to anteocular portion of head ; posterior 

 pronotal lobe anteriorly longitudinall) impressed, posterior angles 

 lobate ; first joint of antennae distinctly shorter than head. 



Length, $ , 12 millim. 



Hah. Pondicherry (Stockholm JIas.). 



I have not seen this species. 



Genus BIASTICUS. 



Biasticus, Stal, Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Fork. 1866, pp. 284 & 290 ; id. En 

 Hem. iv, p. 13 (1874). 



Type, B. imjoiger, Stil, a Malayan species. 



Distrihution. Oriental Region. 



Body elongate ; head subelongate, almost as long as the pro- 

 notum, postoeular a little longer than anteocular area ; rostrum 

 with the first joint shorter than the second, a little longer than 

 anteocular area of head ; first joint of antennae a little longer than 

 pronotum ; anterior lobe of pronotum longitudinally impi-essed, 

 posterior lobe with a distinct, central, anterior, longitudinal eleva- 

 tion ; scutellum not apically produced ; hemelytra passing the 

 abdominal apex ; legs moderately long and slender ; femora 

 apically moderately nodulose, anterior femora very slightly 

 incrassated. 



