PCEANTIUS. 75 



Allied to Dieuches, from which it differs in having the basal 

 joint of the antennae longer than the first joint of the rostrum ; 

 by the length of the posterior legs allied to Pceantius. 



2850. Uzza karenia, Dist. A. M. N. H. (8) iii, p. 339 (1909). 



Head black ; antennae piceous, base of fourth joint pale luteous ; 

 pronotum with the anterior lobe black, the posterior lobe piceous, 

 with a central longitudinal ochraceous line, the lateral margins 

 (not reaching base) pale ochraceous ; scutellum black, the extreme 

 apex ochraceous ; corium dark castaneous, the basal third, two 

 marginal spots beyond middle, and the apical angles ochraceous, 

 a small spot on each side of claval apex pale testaceous ; membrane 

 black, with a subcentral, waved, transverse, greyish fascia; body 

 beneath black ; rostrum and legs piceous, bases of intermediate 

 and posterior tibiae pale ochraceous ; structural characters as in 

 generic diagnosis. 



Length 6 millim. 



Hob. Burma; Karennee. 



Genus PCEANTIUS. (Vol. II, p. 85.) 



2851. Pceantius lineatus, St&l, En. Hem. iv, p. 162 (1874). 



Pceantius brevicollis, Bredd. Deutsch. ent. Zeitschr. 1907, p. 207. 



Head, anterior lobe of pronotum, and scutellum black, posterior 

 lobe of pronotum ochraceous, thickly blackly punctate ; lateral 

 margins of pronotum (not quite reaching base), a central longi- 

 tudinal line to posterior lobe, and near its anterior margin behind the 

 transverse impression on each side some small impunctate areas, 

 and the corium, pale ochraceous; longitudinal striae to clavus 

 (becoming obsolete towards base), and the apical area to corium 

 dark fuscous-brown, the latter crossed by a whitish transverse line 

 above which this dark area is sometimes broken up into longitu- 

 dinal bands ; membrane obscure greyish, usually reflecting the dark 

 abdomen beneath ; body beneath and legs black ; posterior margin 

 of metasternum, coxae, and bases of intermediate and posterior 

 femora pale ochraceous-yellow ; extreme apex of scutellum pale 

 yellowish ; antennae ochraceous, base of first joint, extreme apex 

 of second, third apically or nearly all, and the fourth piceous ; 

 pronotum only slightly longer than broad ; membrane scarcely 

 reaching or slightly passing abdominal apex. 



Length 4| to 6 millim. 



Hal. Bombay (Dixori). Bengal ; Eanchi (Irvine). Ceylon 

 (fide Breddin). Philippines (fide Stdl). Japan (Lewis, Coll. 

 Dist.). 



To be separated from the other Indian species, P. festivus, Dist. 

 (vol. ii> p. 86), by the relatively shorter and broader prouotuin. 



