320 APPENDIX. NAUCOBIDJE. 



rather elongate embolium scarcely contracted near its base, the 

 basal two-thirds of the embolium lighter and narrowly yellow on 

 the margin, the pale colour uneven at its internal edge ; claval 

 commissure shorter than the scutellum ; membrane well developed 

 and valvular, entirely black ; connexivum plainly visible above . . . ; 

 body beneath uniformly black, except the lateral edges of the 

 prosternum and the underside of the corium which are yellow ; 

 legs pale yellow." (Montandon.') 



Length 10 millirn. ; max. breadth 5-4 millim. 



Hob. Trichiuopoly (Dubreuil, Coll. Montand.). 



I have not seen this species. 



Genus HELEOCORIS. (Vol. Ill, p. 29.) 



I am now able to add four more species to the British 

 Indian enumeration of this genus, and to figure three of the 

 species formerly included but then not seen by the writer. 

 Dr. Montandon, who is the special authority on these insects, has 

 greatly assisted me in the determinations. 



HELEOCORIS BBEVICEPS. (Vol. Ill, p. 29.) 



I now figure a specimen of this species which I have received 



Fig. 180. Heleocoris breviceps. 



from the Bombay State, and which has also been identified as such 

 by Dr. Montandon. 



3096. Heleocoris majusculus, Montand. Ann. Mus. Nat. Hung. vi. 

 p. 301 (1908). 



" Oval in form, posteriorly enlarged, a little attenuated anteriorly, 

 of a uniform dark brown, with the margins of the pronotuin, the 

 embolium and the connexivum yellow ; head transverse, intraocular 

 space a little less than twice as broad as long and very plainly 

 more than twice broader than the width of an eye, internal margins 



of the eyes subparallel, slightly obtusely sinuate ; . . . surf* 

 head superficially punctate, the punctuation a little granul 



surface of the 

 ose, more 



