142 Mr. W. L. Distant on 



Gem's nepalensis, sp. n. 



Body above and hemelytra black ; body beneath silvery 

 pubescent; lateral margins of head silvery pubescent; antenna? 

 with the first and second joints castaneous brown, their extreme 

 apices and the whole of the third and fourth joints piceous 

 black ; pronotura with an obscure longitudinal, central, 

 brownish ochraceous line, usually only discernible on the 

 anterior area; anterior femora black with silvery pubescence, 

 their base and a spot near apex ochraceous; intermediate and 

 posterior femora brownish ochraceous, their apices black ; 

 intermediate and posterior tibias and all the tarsi black, 

 anterior tibije brownish ochraceous, their apices black ; 

 antennas with the first joint longest, fourth slightly longer 

 than third ; head moderately convex, longer than broad ; 

 pronotum with the margins of the anterior area slightly 

 convex, a little transversely ridged between the humeral 

 angles, which are slightly prominent and then globosely 

 posteriorly deflected, the posterior margin sublaminate, the 

 posterior area sparsely coarsely punctate ; hemelytra about as 

 long as the posterior femora ; intermediate and posterior 

 femora about equally long ; rostrum black, slightly passing 

 the anterior cox as. 



Length $ macropt. 8 mm. 



Bab. Nepal ; Soondrijal and Chonebal ; Katmandu ; 

 Lucknovv (Annandah). 



Allied to G. sahlberyi, Dist. 



G err is raja, sp. n. 



Head ochraceous, eyes black ; antennas with the first 

 joint ochraceous, its apex black, remaining joints black or 

 piceous; pronotum with two anterior and two large cliscal 

 spots ochraceous (in some specimens these spots are united in 

 pairs) ; hemelytra black ; body beneath, rostrum and anterior 

 femora ochraceous ; apex of rostrum and linear streaks to the 

 anterior femora black ; tibies, tarsi, and intermediate and 

 posterior femora piceous or black ; antennas with the first 

 joint a little longer than second, which is shortest, third 

 longest, fourth shorter than third but longer than first; head 

 a little convex, longer than broad ; pronotum with the 

 humeral angles not prominent ; hemelytra about as long as 

 the posterior femora ; intermediate and posterior femora sub- 

 equal in length ; rostrum passing the anterior coxas. 



Length 5 mm. 



Hab. Travancore Coast ; Vurkalay {Annandah). 



