14 PENT ATOM IDiE. 



intermediate coxae. AntennEe with the second joint very short. 

 Odoriferous apertures very broad and obliquely striate, 



17. Vigetus typicus, Dist. A. M. N. H. (7) viii, p. 235 (1901). 



Above shining olivaceous-black ; thickly, finely, but obscurely 

 punctate ; eyes luteous ; base of lateral margin to corium 

 ochraceous. Head beneath and sternum black, opaque ; abdomen 

 shining black ; iegs piceous, apices of femora, tibiae and tarsi 

 brownish-ochraceous ; lateral margins of the abdomen ochraceous, 

 inwardly angulated. Antennae ochraceous : fourth joint piceous 

 (remainder mutilated). 



Length c? & $ 5 to 6 ; uiax. breadth 4^ to 5^ millim. 



Hah. Assam; Margherita (Do^eri?/)- 



Genus TIAROCORIS. 



Tiarocovip, VoU. Faun. Ind. Neerl. \, p. 51 (1863). 



Type, T. sumatranus, Voll., a Sumatran species. 



Distribution. Oriental Eegion. 



Body large and concave ; head large, the lateral lobes meeting 

 in front of the central lobe in the female, but produced in two 

 large diverging processes in the male ; antennae five-jointed, the 

 second joint very small ; rostrum reaching the first abdominal 

 segment ; scutellum covering the abdomen and the corium, the 

 second only exposed at base ; apex of scutellum concavely excavated 

 in the uiale. 



18. Tiarccoris contestatus. Montand. A^m. Soc. Ent. BeUj. xxxvii, 



p. 561 (1893). 



5 . Head pale brownish-ochraceous, the margins and central lobe 

 darker, eyes castaueous; pronotum ochraceons, glabrous, a very broad 

 basal fascia not quite reaching lateral angles, two transverse waved 

 fasciae on anterior area, and an oblique spot near lateral angles. 

 castaneous, anterior margin and an oblique sublateral line piceous ; 



Fig. S.— Tiarocorifi contestatus, 5- 



scutellum ochraceous, thickly, coarsely, and darkly punctate, a basal 

 patch convexly margined with a piceous line, paler and more finely 

 punctate. Abdomen beneath, meso- and metas-terna black ; head 



