1 78 PEXTATOMID.i:. 



This description agrees with that of Dallas, aud refers to fresh 

 specimens ; ordinary examples are of a uniform ochraceous hue 

 'both above and beneath. 



Length 8 ; breadth between pronotal angles 7 millim, 

 Bab. Sikhim. Ntiga Hills {Chenuell). Burma; Ashwe Keba, 

 Karennee (Fea). — Also taken by Anderson in West Yunnan. 



296. Hoplistodera recurva, Dist. Tr. E. S. 1900, p. 170, pi. ii, 

 f. 9. 



Ochraceous, coarsely, sparingly, aud darkly punctate ; head with 

 some basal castaneous spots ; pronotum with two anterior discal 

 subfoveate spots, a central submarginal spot, and a spot at base of 

 posteriorly produced angles castaneous ; scutellum paler ochraceous 

 on basal half, where there are four castaneous fascise, two central 

 and one near each lateral margin ; membrane pale obscure hyaline: 

 liody beneath ochraceous ; sternum sparingly, coarsely, and darkly 

 punctate ; presternum centrally castaneous, meso- and metasterna 

 more or less suffused with castaneous ; abdomen with a longi- 

 tudinal fascia of dark punctures on each lateral discal area ; 

 antenna? pale castaneous. The pronotal posterior angles are well 

 produced, moderately recurved, A^ith their apices acute. 



Length 8 ; breadth between pronotal angles 7| millim. 



Hab. Chakrata, North-western Himalayas (Anderson). 



Genus PAKACRITHEUS. 



Astyanax, Stal, Of v. Vet.-Ak. Fork. 1867, p. 511, nom. iynpoce. 

 Paracritheus, Beryr. liev. d'Entom. x, p. 214 (1891). 



Type, P. trimaculatus, Lep. & Serv. 



Distribution. Oriental Eegion. 



Body broadly obovate ; head and anterior area of pronotum 

 moderately detlected ; head shghtly narrowed for\\ardly and a 

 little sinuate before the eyes, its apex rounded, punctate in longi- 

 tudinal series, lobes of equal length ; rostrum extending a little 

 beyond the posterior coxa^ ; basal joint of antenna; not reaching 

 apex of head ; pronotum with 1 he lateral angles strongly and 

 acutely produced ; scutellum broad, about as long as broad at base, 

 a little narro\Aed posteriorly ; corium about reaching the apex of 

 abdomen, the apical angle rounded ; membrane with longitudinal 

 veins ; jjiesosternum carinate ; abdomen narrowed at base. 



297. Paracritheus trimaculatus, Lep. ^- Serv. (Scutellera) Enc. Metk. 

 10, p. 411 (1825) ; Germ. (Graphosoma) Zeitschr. \, p. 54 (1839); 

 Dull. (Hoplistodera) List Hem. \, p. 217 (1851); <S?(?/ (Astj-anax), 

 Ofc. Vet.-Al: Fork. 1870, p. 629. 



Ochraceous, thickly brownly punctate ; head with six longi- 



