230 P£NTATOMID,i:. 



beneath and legs stramineous ; stigmata and small marginal spots 

 to abdomen black ; tarsi and antennae ochraceous. Ventral spine 

 reaching the intermediate coxte. 



Length 7 millim. 



Hah. Sind {Coll. Dist.). " Hindostan " {Brit. JIus.). 



371. Menida bisignata, If'alJ:. (Rhaphigaster) Cat. Het. n, p. 366 



(1867). 



"Testaceous, elongate-elliptical, thickly and minutely punctured; 

 punctures black : antenna? black, first and second joints tawny ; 

 thorax transversely and very slightly impressed in front, a transverse 

 triangular black mark with a testaceous disk on each side in front of 

 the impression ; scutellum less thickly punctured thaii the thorax, 

 a blackish dot on each side near the tip ; abdomen black ; cou- 

 nexivura testaceous ; underside witli two testaceous stripes which 

 do not extend to the tip : ventral spine obtuse, extremely short, not 

 extending to the hind coxae ; femora and tibite with tawny tips ; 

 corium with a brown apical patch which is bordered on its inner 

 side by an inconiplete \\ hitish baud, the latter not punctured; 

 membrane lurid." {Wallcer.) 



Length 6 millim. 



Hah. " Hindostan " {Brit. Mas.). 



372. Menida elongata, sp. n. 



Black, somewhat thickly punctate, more sparingly so on corium 

 and apical half of scutellum ; antennae black ; pronotum with the 

 Lateral margins narrowly, some transverse spots on the posterior 

 disk, and a small spot at each latei-al angle ochraceous ; scutellum 

 \\ith a small spot at each basal angle, a cluster of irregular spots on 

 posterior half, and the apex ocliraceous ; corium ochraceous, 

 t!;paringly blackly punctate, punctures somewhat confluent on disk, 

 apical area black ; membrane very pale ochraceous : body beneath 

 and legs black ; coxae, basal halves of femora, abdominal marginal 

 spots, and six spots arranged in pairs on anterior segments of 

 abdomen luteous ; rostrum black, with its two basal joints 

 luteous ; abdominal basal spine in type injured by pinning, but 

 apparently short. 



Length 7 millim. 



Hah. Burma; Temio {Coll. Dist.). 



A narrow elongate species, in shape and form somewhat re- 

 sembling the African M. loriuentris. Germ. 



Stal (En. Hem. v, p. 9<5, 1876) described a species under the 

 name of j\I. sif/noretii with the habitat " India orientalis. Potius 

 Africa ? " This, pending veriflcatiou of the locality, cannot at 

 ju-esent be included in the Indian fauna. 



