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black, very slender; first joint piceous, rather stout, a little shorter than the 

 head ; second more than thrice the length of the first. Piothorax contracted 

 in front, with two transverse furrows, and with a large black spot on each 

 side hindward. Legs luteous, slender. Coriuin and membrane hyaline, 

 brownish cinereous; veins brown. Length of the body 4 lines. 



a. Malacca. Presented by W. W. Saunders, Esq. 



7. MONALONION POLITUM. 



Fcem. Rufum, gracile, fere lineare ; caput breve ; oculi vulde promi- 

 nuli ; rostrum coxas anticas attingens ; anletDue nigra, articulo \o 

 piceo valdo capiti aquilongo ; prulkorax anlice arctalus et transverse 

 bisulcatus, angulis posticis acutis ; corium apice fiiscum ; membrana 

 fusca. 



Female. Red, slender, smooth, shining, nearly linear. Head short- 

 triangular. Eyes piceous, very prominent. Rostrum extending to the 

 fore coxae. Antennae black, slender ; first joint piceous, stout, as long as 

 the head; second more than four times the length of the first. Prothorax 

 contracted in front, where there are two well-defined transverse furrows ; 

 hind angles acute. Legs slender. Corium brown at the tip. Membrane 

 and hind wings brown. Length of the body 4 lines. 



a. Sarawak. Presented by W. W. Saunders, Esq. 



9. MONALONION DIVISUM. 



Mas. Nigrum, gracile, suhlineare ; caput rufum, nigra unifasciatum ; 



oculi prominuli ; rostrum coxas posticas paullo superans ; antenncE 



corpore paullo breviores ; prothorax antice bisulcatus, postice striatus ; 



abdomen basi rufum ; pedes rufi ; corium rufo late unifasciatum. 



Male. Black, slender, nearly linear. Head red, triangular, smooth, 



shining, with a black band on the hind part of the vertex. Eyes black, 



prominent. Rostrum red, extending a little beyond the hind coxae. 



AntenncB shorter than the body; first joint as long as the head; second 



about ihrice the length of the first; third as long as the first. Prothorax 



red, with two transverse furrows in front and with a broad hinder band, 



which is transversely striated. Abdomen red towards the base. Legs red, 



slender. Corium wilh a broad red baud at one-third of the length. 



Membrane blackish. Length of the body 4^ lines. 



a. Ternate. From Mr. Wallace's collection. 



Genus 16. EUCEROCORIS. 

 Eucerocoris, Westw. Trans. Ent. Soc. Land. ii. 21. 



1. Eucerocoris nigrxceps. 

 nigriceps, Westw. Trans. Ent. Soc. Land. ii. 22, pi. 2, f. 7. 



2. EaCEROCORIS WESTWOODri. 



Westwoodii, White, Trans. Ent. Soc. Land. iii. 94. 

 Sierra Leone. 



