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which is large and broad, a large aréole occupying the inner apical 

 area of coriuni and reacliing the membrane; eyes very large and 

 almosl meeting beneath the head ; prosternum centrally longitu- 

 dinaiiy sulcate and posteriorly centrally triangularly dilated between 

 the anlerior cox;e ; abdomen beneath with a line central longitudinal 

 carinate line; legs slender, anterior femora net thickened, anterior 

 and intermediate femora about equal in length and moderately 

 curved; posterior legs long, the femora not quite reaching 

 abdominal apex and shorter than the tibitc; posterior tarsi with the 

 second joint shorter than the third, posterior coxœ much wider 

 apart than the intermediate coxse which are again more widely 

 separated than the anterior coxse. 



A genus to be placed after Caunus in the British Indian 

 enumeration. 



Bardesanes signatus sp. n. — Fuscous-brown ; eyes, a large 

 spot between and behind ocelli, inner claval margins, the central 

 aréole to hemelytra and a curved posteriorly attenuated elongate 

 spot to middle cell of membrane, black; pronotum with narrow 

 latéral margins and a central longitudnal linear fascia, single 

 anteriorly and duplex posteriorly, piceous; tibise palely annulate 

 near base, femora piceous-brown at apex; head finely granulose 

 the ocelli bright golden-yellow; membrane very slightly passing 

 abdominal apex; other structural characters as in generic diag- 

 nosis. 



Length 14 mill. 



Hab. : Burma; Karennee (coll. Dist.). 



Epirodera bengalensis sp. n. — Black; anteocular portion 

 of head, an oblong spot at apex of corium, rostrum, legs and abdo- 

 men beneath ochraceous; femora and tibia^. more or less annulated 

 with piceous ; anteocular portion of head longer than postocular 

 which is globose behind eyes ; pronotum with the anterior lobe 

 very strongly defined, the anterior angles prominent, two central 

 longitudinal ridges which are curved inwardly near middle; scu- 

 tellum witli the apex narrowly spatulate ; membrane reaching 

 abdominal apex; abdomen beneath with a sublateral segmentai 

 séries of black spols on each side; connexivum ochraceous, spotted 

 with spiceous. 



Length 9 mill. 



Hab. : Bengal; Pusa. 



Reduvius delicatula sp. n. — Head, pronotum and scutellum 

 castaneous-brown ; eyes black; antennœ brownish-ochraceous; head 



