344 COEEID^. 



560. Ochrochira nigroriifa, Walk. (Phvsomerus) Oaf. Het. iv, p. GO 



(1871) ; Bht. A. M. N. B. (6) xii, p. 121 (1893). 



Allied to the preceding species (0. biplagiata), from which it 

 differs hy the mucli less produced pronotal angles, which have 

 their posterior margins obliquely straight, not dentate ; the 

 lateral pronotal dentation less profound ; spine to posterior femora 

 in the male slightly longer; in general appearance more resembling 

 a species of the genus Mictis. 



Length 25 to 28 ; breadth between pronotal angles 9 to 9^ 

 laillim. 



Hah. KhasiHWls (CJienndl). Burma; Karennee (Fea, Doherti/), 

 Euby Mines {Doherty). 



This species varies in frequently having the colour above of a 

 dark reddish-ochraceous ; the central longitudinal impression to 

 the pronotum sometimes fuscous ; while in other examples the disk 

 of the corium is more or less fuscous. 



Genus MICTIS. 



Mictis, Leach, Zool Misc. i, p. 92 (1814) ; Amy. S^- Serv. Hem. p. 189' 



(1843). 

 Myctis, Westiu. in Hope Cat. ii, p. 10 (1842). 

 Cerbus, Halm, Wanz. 2ns. i, pi. 1, f. 1 (1831) ; Burm. Handh. 2, i, 



p. 339 (1835). 

 Subg. Aspilosterna, Stal, En. Hem. iii, p. 46 (1873). 



Ty]ie, J/, iirofana, Fabr., an Australasian species. 



Distrlhutioii. Ethiopian, Oriental, Australasian, and Eastern 

 Palsearctic Regions. 



In this genus the posterior tibise are not dilated on both sides, 

 and only inwardly dentate in the male ; the abdomen beneath is 

 distinctly tuberculate in the male ; the pronotum is anteriorly 

 provided with a more or less distinct collar. 



561. Mictis tenebrosa, Fahr. (Cimcx) Mant. ii, p. 288 (1787); I)ist.. 



P. Z. >S. 1901, i, p. 327. 

 Cerbus unibilicatus, Hen\-ScJi. Wanz. Ins. \i, j). 29, pi. 190, f. A 



(1842) ; id. t. c. p. 51, f. 611. 

 Myctis fasciatus, Wcstw. in Hope Cat. ii, p. 11 (1842). 

 Mictis nigricornis, DaU. List Hem. ii, p. 400 (1852). 

 StoU, Pun. f. 277. 



Greyish-brown or brownish-ochraceous ; antennae, legs, and 

 body beneath somewhat darker in hue ; abdomen above black, 

 with two large central ochraceous spots sometimes narrowly 

 connected : posterior femora in the male strongly curved and 

 incrassated, in the female much less curved and only moderately 

 thickened : postei'ior tibise in the male inwardly strongly dentate 

 before middle, thence serrated to apex, in the female slender and 

 non-dentate ; abdomen beneath in male with the median apex of 

 second abdominal segment produced into a long ilat rounded 



