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150G. Heleocoris elongatllS, Montand. Ann. Soc. Ent. Behj. xli, p. 59 

 (1897) ; id. Vevli. z.-b. Ges. Wien, xlvii, p. 440 (1897). 



Elongately oval, of a clear yellow tint densely punctured with 

 black on the head and pronotum ; scutellum and hemelytra brown 

 with the emboliuin largely yellowish ; lateral margins of the intra- 

 ocular area to head marked on each side by three small dark 

 depressions placed longitudinally at inner margins of eyes ; head 

 finply and densely punctured and granulose to the extremity, more 

 or less punctured with brown, but without the longitudinal median 

 brown spot as in H. heviceps : claval suture a little longer 

 than half the length of the scutellum ; body beneath entirely 

 yellow; pronotum with the lateral margins very slightly arcuated, 

 nearly straight, the lateral posterior angles rounded, not prominent 

 behind, the posterior edge straight ; embolium of hemelytra a 

 little enlarged, yellow at base and along the outer margin, the 

 yellow margin bisinuated at its inner edge by t\^"o brown spots ; 

 membrane dark brown, well developed, largely valvular; con- 

 nexivum yellow, with a straight transverse brown fascia on the 

 nosterior margins of the segments. 



Length 8; breadth 4| millim. 



Hab. " Indes orientales " (Stocl-holm 21us.). 



1507. Heleocoris indicus, Montand.Verh. z.-b. Ges. Wien, xlvii, p. 450 



(1897). 



Oval, flavescent with brown punctures more or less dense 

 forming small ill-defined shadings on the head and pronotum ; 

 scutellum and hemelytra dark brown, a median longitudinal line 

 to the scutellum and a large portion of the embolium }'ello\^ish. 



Differs from H. elongatus by its more oval and less elongate 

 form ; the claval suture nearly as long as the length of the scu- 

 tellum ; underside of body entirely yellowish ; pronotum with the 

 lateral margins nearly straight, very slightly arcuated, the pos- 

 tei'ior angles subtruncate ; embolium of the hemelytra yellowish, 

 with a medial brown spot on its inner margin and another spot 

 at its apex ; conuexivum yellow, very narrowly darkened on the 

 outer edge of the posterior angles of each segment. 



Length 8| ; breadth 5| millim. 



Hah. Madras Province ; Bellary (Paris Mns.). 



1508. Heleocoris obliquatus. Spin. (Xaucoris) Ess. p. 54. 4 (1837) ; 



Stal (Heleocoris), En. Hem. \, p. 146 (1876). 



" Size of Naucoris maculata, Fabr. (a Paloearctic species). Head 

 and pronotum regularly spotted with grey or black ; the last pro- 

 portionally shorter and wider; scutellum black, its apex pale; 

 hemelytra black, outer margin pale near base • underside of body 

 and legs pale. Pronotum not distinctly bordered with a marginal 

 furrow, the posterior angles terminating obliquely." (iSpinola.) 



Hah. Bombay. 



This must be considered, at least for the present, a species of 



