432 Mr. W: L. Distant's^rstf report on the 



Blissus paUipes, n. s. 



Head and pronotum black, somewhat shining; antennae 

 with the 1st and 2nd joints castaneous, the 3rd and 4th 

 fuscous ; eyes dark castaneous ; scutellum black, opaque ; 

 corium very pale ochraceous, the apical angles broadly 

 black, and a subclaval brownish oblique line on each 

 side ; costal margin narrowly ochraceous ; clavus with 

 about the basal half black, the outer margin ochraceous ; 

 membrane greyish white, the veins brownish ; body 

 beneath piceous ; legs reddish ochraceous. The body 

 both above and beneath is finely pilose ; the membrane 

 does not quite reach the penultimate segment of the 

 abdomen, which is piceous and finely pilose. Long. 

 5 mm. 



Hob. Niigata, Yokohama. 



Blissus bicoloripes, n. s. (PI. XIX., fig. 12). 



Head, pronotum, and scutellum, black ; antennae 

 piceous ; corium pale stramineous ; basal half and extreme 

 apex of clavus, and apical area of corium, from which 

 extend two short discal streaks, more or less black; mem- 

 brane pale olivaceous-brown, the veins darker ; abdomen 

 above and body beneath black ; femora and tibiae piceous, 

 their bases and apices ochraceous ; tarsi ochraceous. The 

 body is finely pilose ; head and pronotum coarsely punc- 

 tate ; membrane neither reaching the apex nor lateral 

 margins of the abdomen ; anterior femora unarmed. 

 Long. 3g- mm. 



Hab. Nagasaki, Yokohama. 



This species appears to be allied to B. gibbus, Fabr., 

 an Indian species, from the description of which it differs 

 by its smaller size, different colour of the legs, and the 

 scutellum not " dense punctatum," &c. 



Geocoris proteus, n. s. (PI. XX., figs. 1, 2). 



Head black ; eyes castaneous ; antennae black, the 4th 

 joint, the apex of the 3rd, and sometimes the apex of 

 the second joint, brownish ochraceous ; pronotum black, 

 very coarsely punctate, the lateral angles ochraceous, 

 and with two very distinct transverse foveae a little 

 before centre ; scutellum black, coarsely punctate ; 



