HOMOCIDUS. 28$ 



200. Homocidus cinctus, Grav. 



Basstis cinctus, Graveuhorst, Ichn. Ear. iii, 1829, p. 327 ; Holm- 

 gren, Sv. Ak. Handl. 1855, p. 356; Vollenhoven, Pinac. pi. i, 

 tig. 6 ( rf) ; id., Tijds. Ent. 1878, p. 162 ( $ ). 



Bassus lateralis, Gravenhorst, op. cit. p. 342 ( c^ ) ; Holmgren, op. 

 cit. p. 355; Vollenhoven, Piuae. pi. i, fig. 5 ($ ). 



Bassus albicinctus, Desvignes, Trans. Ent. Soc. Loud. 1862, p. 218 

 (d). 



jBfanu hyperboreus, Marshall,* Ent. Month. Mag. xiii, 1877, p. 241 



(d). 



Homoporus later alls, Thomson, Opusc. Ent. xiv, 1890, p. 1492 (d 2 ). 

 Homoporus cinctus, Morlev, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1905, p. 426 

 (<??) 



Nitidulous, punctulate, black. Head I'ully as broad as thorax ; 

 frons anteriorly impressed arid subcanaliculate ; mouth, clypens, 

 inner orbits ($), or whole face (c?), flavous. Antenna shorter 

 than body ; scape of <3 stramineous beneath. Thorax stout and 

 gibbous, with (typical form) or without (var. scabriculus) a mark 

 before the pale tegulte, and rarely in c? (var. dUricinctus') pleural 

 suture and pale spots, flavous ; areola quite distinctly delineated, 

 entire, transverse or subquadrate ; metathorax subrugulose. 

 Scutellnm and sometimes postscutellum apically stramineous. 

 Abdomen with the subscabriculous three or four basal segments 

 apically flavescent throughout (typical form) or with their lateral 

 angles alone pale (var. lateralis) ; basal segment of $ subquadrate, 

 of d 1 a little longer than broad, basally dilated, with the discal 

 carinje not very distinct. Legs red, with the hind tarsi and apices 

 of their tibife blackish ; anterior coxae entirely and the hind ones 

 apically, with all the trochanters, flavous. Wings with transverse 

 anal nervure intercepted in or slightly below the centre. 



Length 3^-6 millim. 



SIKKIM: Darjiling, 6000ft., ix. 08- (E. Bnmetii Ind. Mus.). 

 EUROPE. 



Type in the Breslau Museum. 



This species is entirely distinct in its complete metathoracic 

 areola and pale hind femora. The synonymy of Marshall's insect, 

 which I have examined in his collection in the British Museum, 

 has not before been brought forward. 



H. cinctus has not been very widely noticed in Europe, and I 

 do not find it given anywhere as occurring further east than 

 Germany ; in Britain it is common and frequently beaten from 

 undergrowth in woods in June, but its economy is unknown. A 

 single male was taken by my friend Mr. Brunetti by sweeping 

 grass and low herbage at Darjiling. 



201. Homocidus tarsatorius, Pz. 



Bassus tarsatorius, Panzer, Faun. Germ, ix, 1805, p. 102 ; Graven* 



horst, Ichn. Eur. iii, 1829, p. 932. 

 Bassus exultans, Gravenhorst, op. cit. p. 328 ( c? ) ; Ratzeburg, 



Ichn. d. Forst. i, p. 122; Holmgren, Sv. Ak. Handl. 1855, p. 359 



( d 1 $ ), excl. var. 1 . 



