MEXIDA. 229 



with the latex'al margins aucl tour luiigiturlinal furrowed punctured 

 lines greenish-black : antennae pilose, luteous, apex of the first 

 joint and apical half of the third black ; fourth and fifth black, 

 narrowly luteous at base ; rostrum luteous, apex piceous ; pro- 

 notum with an anterior submarginal line of greenish-black 

 punctures, and two transverse sub-auuulate punctured spots of the 

 same colour on anterior disk ; scutellum with a large central sub- 

 basal greenish-black spot, and a small indistinct one of the same 

 colour on each lateral margin a little before apex ; membrane 

 colourless : body beneath and legs luteous, sparingly punctured 

 with black. Abdominal spine reaching the intermediate cox*. 



Length 6 millim. 



Hah. Murree ; Sind Valley, Kashmir {StoUczka). 



368. Menida labecula, Dist. A. M. N. H. (7) v, p. 396 (1900). 



Ochraceous, thickly and coarsely brownly punctate ; head with 

 the lateral and basal margins and the margins of central lobe 

 piceous ; prouotuin with two transverse foveate spots on anterior 

 area ; scutellum with a large discal castaneous spot near base and 

 two smaller spots of the same colour near apex, behind which is a 

 small linear spot, the apex paler and less punctate ; connexivum 

 ochraceous, spotted with castaneous : body beneath and legs 

 ochraceous : lateral margins and apical segment of abdomen 

 castaneous ; a cluster of black punctures near anterior coxae and 

 some silky piceous transverse patches on lateral areas of meso- and 

 metasterna ; antennae ochraceous, apical joint sometimes castaneous. 



Length 5 millim. 



Hah. Ceylon {Green cf- Lewis). 



369. Menida atkinsoni, Uisf. Tr. E. S. 1900, p. 171, pi. ii, f. 10. 



Black ; a central discal quadrate spot to pronotum, a large 

 oblique spot near each basal angle of scutellum, apical margins of 

 scutellum, narrow lateral margins to pronotum and corium, legs, 

 abdominal spine, and a broken lateral linear margin to abdomen, 

 ochraceous ; antennae ochraceous, basal and third joints some^'hat 

 inf uscated, fourth and fifth joints mutilated in specimen described ; 

 the body above is thickly and coarsely punctate excepting the 

 ochraceous markings, \\hich are almost impunctate. 



Length 6 millim. 



Hah. Sikhim ; Mungphu {Atkinson Coll.). 



370. Menida rubriplaga, IVal/c. (Rhaphigaster) Cat. Hef. ii, p. 365 



(1867). 

 8tramineous ; posterior area of pronotimi and the corium 

 coarsely punctate ; head, anterior area of pronotum, and scutellum 

 finely punctate ; a transverse fascia between pronotal angles, two 

 central basal and two subapical spots narrowly connected to 

 scutellum, and apical angles of corium pale sanguineous : body 



