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the lateral margins and the posterior angles impunctate, a slight 

 transverse ridge on the anterior area indicating the position of 

 the cicatrices and containing one or two series of black punctures ; 

 scutellum entirely black, a little narrowly pale brownish colour 

 on the edges near the apex, very strongly punctate, and centrally 

 obsoletely longitudinally carinate ; corium entirely yellow, brilliant, 

 shining, distinctly punctured on apical area ; membrane passing 

 the abdominal apex, paler and more greyish than the corium ; head 

 beneath yellow, body beneath brilliant black, connexivum beneath 

 with a small yellow spot on the external margin of each of the 

 segments ; rostrum and legs yellow, the femora slightly annulated 

 with brownish near apices. 



Length "3'3 to 3'6 millim." 



Hab. Madura District ; Shembaganur (Dubreuil, Coll. Montand. 

 $ Brit. Mus.}. Pulney (Paris Mus.). 



In this enumeration G. dubreuili may be placed after G. lituratus, 

 Fieb. (vol. ii, p. 30) ; the British Museum contains co-types of the 

 species received from Dr. Montandon. 



GrEOCORls ANNULICOKNIS, Sign. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, xv, 

 p. 539 (1880) : Montand. Bull. Soc. Sci. Bucarest, xvi, p. 85 (1907). 

 Geocoris fenestellus, Bredd. Soc. Ent. xvi, p. 10 (1901). 

 Geocoris splendidus, Dist. (vol. ii, p. 30). 



Montandon (supra) has compared the types of the above species 

 and has satisfied himself as to their identity, though the species 

 is of a variable character. The name G. splendidus, Dist. must 

 therefore be suppressed and G. annulicornis, Sign, substituted for 

 it. It is also found in India (Trichinopoly) and extends as far as 

 New Guinea. 



2801. Geocoris maindroni, Montand. Bull. Soc. Sci. Bucarest, xvi, 

 p. 90 (1907). 



" In form robust ; flavous, varied with brown and black spots, 

 bristling on all the upper part with hairs somewhat long and a little 

 dense; head blackish, almost glossv, moderately shiny on the 

 middle, with the apex of the central lobe and a spot on each side 

 of the anterior margin near the eyes navous-browii; prolonged 

 subcircularly in front of the eyes with the central lobe and the 

 extremities of the cheeks a little prominent, about twice as broad 

 between the eyes as long ; eyes of moderate size, not very globose 

 but lengthened behind over the anterior angle of the prouotum ; 

 antennae slender, flavous, the second joint a little brownish, rather 

 densely clothed with oblique hairs which are somewhat longer than 

 the thickness of the joint ; the fourth joint a little shorter than 

 the second and a little longer than the third ; pronotum flavous 

 brown, moderately transverse, trapezoidal, with the anterior angles 

 truncated behind the eyes, distinctly broader posteriorly than the 

 median length, the surface a little rugulose, the punctuation 

 irregular and very dense, leaving only the posterior margin 



