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and a linear longitudinal spot on each side, black, the base 

 greyish white, the apex blackish; eyesochraceous or brownish 

 ochraceous ; antennae castaneous brown, the base of first 

 joint much paler, the fourth joint darker; pronotum greyish 

 white, with a large transverse purplish-brown spot in each 

 lateral area; mesonotum greyish white, with a broad longi- 

 tudinal purplish-brown fascia in each lateral area ; abdomen 

 above greyish white, with transverse segmental purplish-brown 

 spots ; body beneath greyish white ; rostrum castaneous 

 brown, the basal joint ochraceous; legs dark castaneous 

 brown or shining piceous, bases of anterior femora broadly 

 pale ochraceous ; structural characters as in generic diagnosis. 



Length 4| to 5 mm. 



Hah. Andaman Sea (Indian Marine Survey — Alcock). 



Metrocoris nepalensis, sp. n. 



Head ochraceous with a large central oblong black spot ; 

 antennse black, base of first joint broadly pale ochraceous ; 

 pronotum black, with two curved transverse ochraceous lines 

 on posterior margin ; mesonotum black, the lateral margins 

 and two discal angularly curved narrow fasciae ochraceous ; 

 body beneath black with silvery white pubescence; legs 

 black ; coxoe, trochanters, a longitudinal streak to anterior 

 femora above, bases of anterior femora beneath and apex of 

 abdomen beneath, ochraceous; rostrum ochraceous, its apex 

 black and reaching the anterior coxae; antennse with the first 

 joint long, only a little shorter than the anterior tibiae, second 

 joint a little more than half the length of first (remaining 

 joints mutilated in typical specimens) ; anterior tibiae dis- 

 tinctly inwardly spinous at apex ; intermediate femora slightly 

 longer than posterior femora; body above shortly and a little 

 more palely piiose. 



Length 4^ to 5 mm. 



ILib. Nepal; Katmandu and Soondrijal (Annandale). 



1 have not seen a macropterous form of this species. 



Gerastratus, gen. nov. 



Head about as broad as long, the apex transversely rounded, 

 the disk between the eyes strongly roundly foveate ; eyes 

 with the inner margins truncately rounded, moderately pro- 

 duced posteriorly over the lateral margins of the pronotum j 

 front of head perpendicularly depressed to rostrum, which is 

 short, stout, and not passing the anterior coxae; antennae 

 moderately long, first joint a little curved and about as long 

 as the anterior tibiae, second, third, and fourth joints subequal 



