CATALOGUE OF 



near the tip, which is sometimes brown; membrane pellucid. Length of 

 the body 7 lii}es. 



a. Mysol, From Mr. Wallace's collection. 



b, c. Dory, New Guinea. Presented by W". W. Saunders, Esq. 

 d — -/. Dory, New Guinea. From Mr. Wallace's collection. 



25. DiNDYMUS VENUSTULUS. 



Mas. Niger, fusiformis ; rostrum segmenti venlralis \i marginem posti- 

 ctim atlinyens ; anlennce corpore .sat breviores, arliculi 4i dimidio 

 basali albo ; prothorax anlice albo postice luteo marginalus ; venter 

 iuteo marginatus et univitlatus ; pedes femoribus anlicis subincras- 

 satis, femoribus tarsisque quatuor posterinribus basi albis ; corii 

 casta fasciaque subapicalis alba. Var. /3. — Prothorax albo margi- 

 natus ; antennarum articulus 4us totus niger. 



Male. Black, fusiform, hardly punctured. Head triang;ular, shining, 

 smooth. Eyes very prominent. Rostrum extending to the hind border of 

 the first ventral segment. Antennae somewhat shorter than the body ; first 

 joint as long as the head ; second a little shorter than the first; third much 

 shorter than the second ; fourth a little shorter tiian the first, white for 

 nearly half the length from the base. Prothorax with a well-defined trans- 

 verse middle furrow, and with a narrow border which is luteous behind and 

 white in front. Abdomen beneath with a luteous border and a broad 

 irregular luteous stripe. Fore femora slightly incrassated, with subapical 

 spines beneath ; four posterior femora and tarsi white towards the base. 

 Corium with a white costa and a white subapical band. Var.^. — Prothorax 

 with a white border. Fourth joint of the antennae wholly black ; stripe 

 beneath the abdomen indistinct. Length of the body 4 — 4^ lines. 



a. New Guinea. Presented by W. W. Saunders, Esq. 



b. New Guinea. From Mr. Wallace's collection. 



26. DiNDTMUS ROTILANS. 



Mas. Niger, fusiformis ; rostrum segmentum 2um ventrale attingens ; 

 antenute corpore multo breviores ; prothorax postice fortiler punclatus, 

 margine antico albo ; segmenta pectoralia albo marginata ; abdomen 

 coriique dimidiam basale rufa ; membrana diaphana. 

 Male. Black, fusiform, smooth, shining. Head triangular. Eyes 

 very prominent. Rostrum extending to the second ventral segment. 

 Antennae much shorter than the body ; first joint longer than the head ; 

 second much shorter than the first ; third shorter than the second. Pro- 

 thorax with a strongly-marked transverse furrow at somewhat in front of 

 the middle; hind part roughly punctured; fore border white. Pectoral 

 segments bordered with white. Abdomen bright red. Corium bright red 

 for half the length from the tip. Membrane pellucid. Length of the body 

 4j lines. 



o. Siam. Presented by W. W. Saunders, Esq. 



