TIABOCOBIS. 15 



beneath, prosternum, lateral margins and posterior angles of tneso- 

 and metasterna, rostrum, legs, and broad ray-like marginal fasciae 

 to abdomen, ochraceoiis ; apex of rostrum piceous. 



Length 5 ; max. breadth 4 millim. 



Hab. Burma ; Shan Yoma. 



19. Tiarocoris consertus, Bist. A. M. N. H. (7) viii, p. 285 (1901). 



$ . Head ochraceous, the margins, margins of central lobe, an 

 oblique line a little in front of eyes, and the basal margin piceous ; 

 pronotum with the anterior area ochraceous, glabrous, containing 

 two large transverse discal black spots, the anterior margin black 

 and an inner linear series of black punctures to the dilated anterior 

 margins, posterior area ochraceous, thickly covered with very 

 coarse black punctures, the apical margin and basal circumscribed 

 area much more sparingly punctate ; sternum piceous, opaque ; 

 abdomen shining black. Head beneath, prosternum, legs, antennae, 

 rostrum, abdominal margin, and two ray-like fasciae at apex of each 

 abdominal segment, ochraceous ; antennae with the fourth and 

 fifth joints piceous. 



Length 2 5 ; max. breadth 4-j^ millim. 



Hah. Burma ; Ruby Mines {Dolierty). 



Distinguished from the preceding species ( T. contestatus, Montand.) 

 by the punctate and not black posterior area of the pronotum, by 

 the sparsely punctate apical margin of the scutellum, longer ray- 

 like fasciae to the abdomen, &c. 



20. Tiarocoris luminatus, Montand. Rev. d'Ent. 1892, p. 307 ; Ann. 



Sac. Ent. Bdg. xxxvii, p. 660 (1893). 



$ . Above black, shining ; anterior area of the head from 

 between eyes almost wholly ochraceous ; pronotum with the lateral 

 margins, broadly, and the angles of the anterior margin ochraceous, 

 with coarse scattered black punctures, an inner oblique dividing 

 line of black punctures at the anterior dilated margins, a black 

 spot at each lateral angle ; scutellum uith the lateral and apical 

 margins narrowly joined to an oblique spot near each basal angle 

 ochraceous, the last distinctly punctured with black ; connexivum 

 ochraceous ; sternum piceous, opaque ; abdomen black, shining. 

 Head beneath, anterior areas of prosternum, antennte, rostrum, legs, 

 lateral margins of the abdomen, and two ray-like fasciae at the apex 

 of each abdominal segment, ochraceous. 



Length 4-|- ; max. breadth 4 millim. 



Hah. Burma ; Euby Mines (Doherty). — The type was described 

 from Malacca. 



21. Tiarocoris signatus, Dist. A. M. N. H. (7) viii, p. 236 (1901). 



5 . Ochraceous, reticulately marked with piceous. Head 

 ochraceous ; anterior margin, margins of central lobe, and central 

 basal margin narrowly piceous ; eyes pale castaneous ; pronotum 



