356 



COEEID.E, 



pi'onotum with the lateral angles moderately and subacutely pro- 

 duced, between them the disk is sometimes indistinctly iufuscated; 

 abdomen in the female slightly ampliated. 



Length 13 to 16 ; breadth between pronotal angles 4 to 

 4| millim. 



Hah. Sikhim {Coll. Dist.). Pondicherry (Stocl-JiQlm Mas.). 

 Burma ; Rangoon (Brit. Mus.). — Also recorded from China. 



578. Homceocerus signatus, Walk. Cat. Het. iv, p. 97. 19 (1871) ; 

 Kirby^ J. Linn. iSoc, Zool. xxiv, p. 91 (1891). 

 Homceocerus biplagiatua, Stdl, En. Hem. iii, p. 59 (1873). 



Ochraceous ; a broad basal fascia to the pronotum between the 

 lateral angles and the coriura pale castaneous ; corium with a 



Fig. 214. — Homoeoccrus signatus. 



large transverse macular spot at inner angle and the lateral 

 margins luteous ; head with a narrow fascia on each side before 

 eyes, and the subgranulous lateral margins of the pronotum, 

 black ; antenna; with the first and second joints pale castaneous, 

 third joint luteous, apices of second and third joints black, second 

 joint longer than the first, third a little shorter than first ; meso- 

 and metasterua with a black spot on each lateral area ; lateral 

 angles of the pronotum moderately and subacutely produced. 



Length 19 to 21 ; breadth between pronotal angles 6 millim. 



Hah. Sikhim (Knyvett). Bombay (Leith). Khandala {Dixon). 

 Ceylon {Templeton Sf Green). 



Mr. Dixon writes me that at Khandala he found this species to 

 be nocturnal and very fond of brilliant light. 



•579. Homceocerus sigillatus, Stal, En. Hem. iii, p. 59 (1873). 



Closely allied to the two preceding species, but differing by the 

 more slender antennae, the luteous spot to the corium smaller, not 

 transverse, but posteriorly oblique and confined to the inner 

 angular area. 



Length 14 to 18 ; breadth between pronotal angles 5 to 6 millim. 



Hah. Sikhim {Coll. Hist.); Mungphu (Coll. Atkinson). 



