212 APPENDIX. BEDUVIIDjE. 



rately globose and sculptured, with a distinct short suberect spine 

 at each anterior angle, posterior lobe with a much longer almost 

 straight slender spine at each lateral angle, and two shorter erect 

 spines on disk a little before base, posterior margin sinuate ; 

 scutellum with two spines, one near base almost straight, the 

 other at apex long and strongly recurved ; anterior femora mode- 

 rately regularly thickened, straight, the anterior tibise only very 

 slightly shorter than the femora, curved, their apices slightly 

 dilated and truncate ; intermediate and posterior legs slender ; 

 membrane not reaching the abdominal apex. 

 Allied to Alcmena, Stal (vol. ii, p. 



2990. Occamus typicus, Dist. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. liii, p. 372 (1909). 



Head, antennae, and pronotum brownish ochraceous ; body 

 beneath, rostrum, and legs ochraceous ; apical area of abdomen 

 above and beneath piceous or black, but even there the connexivum 

 is ochraceous ; corium ochraceous ; membrane dull greyish ; body 

 finely pilose, legs much more longly pilose ; femora obscurely 

 fuscously annulate near apices ; apex of first joint of antennae 

 fuscous ; structural characters as in generic diagnosis. 



Length 12 millim. 



Hob. Ceylon ; Peradeniya (Green). 



Genus LANCA. 

 Lanca, Dist. A. M. N. H. (7) xviii, p. 369 (1906). 



Type, L. kandyensis, Dist. 



Distribution. Ceylon. 



Body narrow, elongate ; head about as long as pronotum, post- 

 ocular portion much longer than anteocular, profoundly trans- 

 versely incised between eyes, attenuated towards base, a short 

 tubercle or spine behind the antenniferous tubercles ; ocelli placed 

 just behind eyes ; rostrum with the first joint slightly longer than 

 second; antennae slender, first joint about as long as posterior 

 femora, second joint about one-third the length of first ; pronotum 

 with the anterior lobe much shorter than the posterior lobe, the 

 latter with two moderately long, erect, discal spines, and with a 

 long, slender, porrect spine at each lateral angle, its basal margin 

 strongly emarginate, the anterior lobe convex, faintly medially 

 incised, and with its anterior angles tuberculously subprominent ; 

 scutellum apically somewhat tuberculous, not spined ; hemelytra 

 not quite reaching the apex of abdomen, membrane longer than 

 corium ; abdomen not projecting beyond the lateral margins of 

 the hemelytra. the sixth abdominal segment with the connexivum 

 subangularly dilated on each side ; anterior femora slightly thick- 

 ened and a little longer than the tibiae, posterior femora and tibiae 

 longest and subequal in length. 



To be placed near PJaterus, Dist. (vol. ii, p. 375). 



