158 APPENDIX. HYDBOMETBIDjE. 



macropterous form ; abdomen above ochraceous with the segmental 

 margins black. 



Length, macropt. form 5; apt. form 4| inillim. 



Hob. Travancore; Pallode, 20 miles N.E. of Trivandrum 

 (Annandale). 



" On roadside jungle-stream" (N. Annandale). 



Genus METROCORIS. (Vol. II, p. 188.) 

 METEOCORIS STALL (Vol. II, p. 190.) 



The description previously given was after Dohrn and referred 

 to the apterous form of the species. Since then from large 

 collections that have passed through my hands I am now able to 

 largely extend its distribution and describe the macropterous 

 form. 



Macropterous form. Head as in apterous form of the species ; 

 pronotum ochraceous, with a broad central longitudinal fascia 

 (not reaching apex), on each side a broad moderately curved 

 longitudinal fascia (united posteriorly but not reaching anterior 

 margin), and the anterior margin, which is dilated backwardly 

 and maculately on each side, black ; hemelytra black. 



This is the form described by Mayr under the name of 

 M. brevis. 



Add: Hab. Sikhim ; Gangtok, 6150 ft., Shamaang, 3000 ft, 

 (Ind. Mus.\ Kurseong, 5000 ft. (Ind. Mus.). United Provinces; 

 Sath Tal, Kumaon, 4000 ft. (Annandale) Nepal; Pharping, Kat- 

 mandu (Ind. Mus.). Ceylon; Haputta (Green), Madulsima, 

 Bandarawela, Maskeliya (Bainbrigge-Fletcher}. 



2931. Metrocoris nepalensis, List. A. M. N. H. (8) v, p. 148 (1910). 



Head ochraceous, with a large central oblong black spot; 

 antennae 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 ; coxae, 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 ; antennae 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 distinctly inwardly spinous at apex ; intermediate femora 

 slightly longer than posterior femora ; body above shortly and a 

 little more palely pilose. 



Length 4| to 5 millim. 



