28 NAUCORID.B. 



Subfamily II. LACCOCORINtE. 



Laccocorinpe, 3Iontand. Verh. z.-b. Ges. Wien, xlvii, p. 435, 1897. 

 Laccocoiaria (part.)? ^t°'h ^"- Hem. v, p. 142 (1876). 

 Eostrum short; anterior margin of pronotum not or only 

 obtusely sinuate ; gula sliort, neither tumid nor tectiform ; eyes 

 in some genera outwardly laminately marginate, sublobate ; anterior 

 tarsi variable. 



Siino])sis of Genera. 



A. Ej^es with an external process between their 



outer margin and the anterior angle of the 

 pronotum. 



a. Eyes anteriorly divergent Diaphorocoris, p. 28. 



b. Eyes anteriorly convergent Heleocobis, p. 29. 



B. Eyes without external process Ctenipocoris, p. 32. 



Genus DIAPHOEOCORIS. 



Diaphorocoris, Montcmd. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xli, p. 61 (1897) ; id. 

 Verh. z.-b. Ges. Wien, x\yu, p. 436 (1897). 



Type, D. 2)unctatissimus, Kirby. 



Distribution. Ceylon. 



Body oblong ; head large and broad, eyes very divergent, over- 

 hanging the anterior margin of the pronotum, with a triangular 

 external process occupying the space between the middle of the 

 eye and the anterior angle of the pronotum ; pronotum transverse, 

 a little longer than the median line of the head, more than two 

 and a half times broader between the lateral angles than medially 

 long ; scutellum very large ; claval suture a little shorter than 

 scutellum ; membrane well developed, valvular ; connexivum 

 almost invisible above ; anterior femora moderately thickened, the 

 tibise straight and the tarsi two-jointed ; labrum transverse, rounded 

 in front ; mesosternum tumid before the intermediate coxse. 



1501. Diaphorocoris punctatissimus, Kirbi/ (Naucoris?), J. Li7in. 



Soc, Zool. p. 125 (1891); Montand. 

 (Diaphorocoris), Verh. z.-b. Ges, Wien, 

 xlvii, p. 445 (1897). 



Diaphorocoris notatus, Montand. 

 Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xli, p. 61, 1897. 



Keddish-testaceous, very thickly punc- 

 P\ tured ; lateral areas of pronotum, outer 

 ^IS^Pi process to eyes, and basal lateral mar- 



gins of corium, with a detached central 

 'K\ "VmWf"' J" ^^^^^ ^^ same, ochraceous ; body beneath 



u ^SBPw i| and legs almost entirely ochraceous. 



'' A strong peculiarity of this species is 



its thickly punctate upper surface ; the 

 pjt, 18 eyes are black, and the posterior margin 



Biaphorocori^punctatissimiis. of the pronotum and the whole of the 

 scutellum more or less piceous ; the 

 scutellum is finely granulose, with its apex paler; membrane 

 piceous. 



Length 7 to 74 millim. 



