HOM(EOCBEUS. 367 



first and third subequal ia length, fourth shortest, much shorter 

 than first ; pronotum with the lateral margins obsoletely serrate, 

 the lateral angles moderately angulately prominent. 



Length 12 to 14; breadth between pronotal angles 4 to 

 4i millim. 



Hah. Khasi Hills (C7je»ne^Z). Ceylon (Z^^t-is). Burma; Karennee, 

 Prome, Bhamo {Feci). Tenasserim ; Myitta (DoJiertt/). — Also 

 found in the Malay Peninsula and Java. 



Very closely allied to H. unipunctams from China and Japan, 

 but a narrower and slightly smaller species. 



609. Homceocerus marginiventris, Dolum, Stett. ent. Zeit. xxi, 



p. 402 (1860) ; Stal, En. Hem. ill, p. 59 (1873). 



Ochraceous, thickly brownly punctate, pronotum and scutellum 

 with a central pale levigate line ; body beneath and legs ochra- 

 ceous, sternum very coarsely punctate, and with a small fuscous 

 spot on lateral area of each segment : abdomen subrugulose, 

 nebulously fuscous-punctate, lateral margins above and beneath 

 spotted with black ; antennse dull ochraceous, apex of first joint, 

 the second joint, and sometimes third joint piceous, basal joint 

 thickly covered with small black points, second joint longest, third 

 a little longer and fourth a little shorter than first joint ; head 

 with a prominent central jiiceous incision ; rosrrum with the third 

 joint a little shorter than fourth, lateral pronotal angles sub- 

 prominent. 



Length 121 to 13 ; breadth between pronotal angles 3^- millim. 



Hah. Ceylon {Green). 



Var. Antennse pale castaneous, apices of second and third 

 joints black. 



Length 13^ to l^ millim. 



Hah. Burma ; Bhamo (Fea). 



610. Homceocerus laevilineus, StSl, En. Hem. iii, p. 60 (1873). 



Very closely allied to the preceding species, but margins of the 

 abdomen luteous, unspotted ; anterior lateral margins of the corium 

 distinctly luteous ; pronotal angles a little less prominent and 

 more rounded. 



Length 11 to 14| ; breadth between pronotal angles 3 to 4 

 millim. 



Hah. Khasi Hills (CJienneU). Bombay: Bor Ghilt (Dixon). 

 Ceylon {Vienna Mas.). Burma ; Karennee, Metanja {Fea). 



Species doiihtfully recorded from British hidia. 

 erus ahhreviatus, Fabr. {Li/r/ams) Ent. Syst. i 



Lethierry & Severin, in their Cat. Gen. He'm. ii, p. 35, give 



Homceocerus ahhreviatus. Fabr. {Lt/r/ams) Ent. Syst. iv, p 150 

 51 (1794). 



