IIALTICI'3. 479 



This genus clearly represents a distinct division, and I have 

 recently described a second species from N.W. Australia. At 

 present its greatest aflfinity is with Nicostratus {ante, p. 475). 



1459. Armachanus monoceros, sp. n. 



Pale brownish-ocliraceous ; a transverse linear white fascia 

 crossing clavus near apex of scutellum, and an oblique similar 

 fascia near middle ot" corium; .scutellum, clavus, and central area 

 of corium darker in hue; cuneus with a large prominent basal 

 black spot ; membrane very pale fuliginous ; eyes slaty-grey ; body 

 beneath and legs unicolorous. 



Length 6 millim. 



Hah. Ceylon; Yatiyantota (/rVce)!). 



Division LABOFABIA. 



Laboparia, Heut. Act. Soc. Sc. Fenn. xiii, p. ."iGZ (1884). 

 Halticaria, Kii-l:. Faun. Ifawaiiensis, iii, pt. ii, p. 139 (1902). 



In this division the pronotum is without a transverse constric- 

 tion ; the head broad ; rostrum very robust ; and the posterior 

 coxae placed somewhat close together and remote from the lateral 

 margin of tlie corium. 



Syno^jsls of Genera. 



A. Antennae longer than body IIalticus, p. 479. 



B. Antennse much shorter than body. 



a. Broad ; lateral margin of corium convex ; 



cuneal fracture very profound Bilia, p. 480. 



b. Elongate ; lateral margin of corium parallel ; 



cuneal tracture indistinct Berta, p. 481. 



Genus HALTICUS. 



Halticus, Hahn, Wcmz. Ins. \, p. 113, pi. 18, ff. a^d (1831); 

 Barm. Handb. ii (1) p. 277 (1835) ; Fivb. Eur. Hem. pp. 09 & 281 

 (1861) ; Retit. Act. Soc. Sc. Fcmn. xxiii, p. 17 (1897), et syn. 



Astemma (part.). Amy. ^- Sew. Hem. p. 284 (1843). 



Halticocoris, Douc/l. 4'" Scott, Brit. Hem. p. 478 (1805). 



Type, ff. ai^terxis, Linn., a Palsearctic and Nearctic species. 



Distribution. Nearctic, Neotropical, Palsearctic, and Oriental 

 Eegions. Probably more widely distributed, though unrecorded. 



Broadly subovate ; head short, broad, laminately flattened pos- 

 teriorly and a little produced above the anterior margin of the 

 pronotum ; eyes large, touching pronotum ; antenna) long, slender, 

 longer than the body ; rostrum robust, reaching the intermediate 

 coxae ; pronotum short, broad, tumid at basal area, deflected ante- 

 riorly ; scutellum of moderate size, subtriangular ; hem elytra 

 convexly deflected on each side, the cuneus and membrane pos- 

 teriorly deflected ; posterior femora strongly incrassate ; tibiaj 

 spiuously setose. 



