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Heteropt. i, p. 371 (1909)), that S. porrectus, Dist., and S. macrinus, 

 Dist., were the sexes of one species. As both these species were 

 figured (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1887, pi. xii, figs. 7 & 9), where 

 they can both be seen to be female specimens, the suggestion 

 always appeared to me to be bizarre, but until I received the male 

 of S. porrectus, the refutation could well be deferred. 



Genus SEPONTIA. (Vol. I, p. 164.) 

 3702. Sepontia nigrofusca, sp. n. 



Head shilling brassy-black, thickly, somewhat coarsely punctate, 

 its apex rounded, lobes about equal in length ; antennae ochraceous, 

 apical area of the fourth and nearly the whole of the fifth joint 

 piceous, first and second joints short, third a little longer, but much 

 shorter than either fourth or fifth ; pronotum declivous, bronzy- 

 brown, somewhat thickly punctate, the lateral margins palely 

 levigate, two larger transverse black spots on each side of anterior 

 area, and a transverse series of more or less rounded black spots 

 near basal margin; scutellum pale bronzy-brown, thickly, some- 

 what finely punctate, generally a little darker on basal area, three 

 small pale spots" on basal margin one central and one at each 

 basal angle ; body beneath dark castaneous, coxae, legs, and 

 narrow sternal and abdominal margins paler and more ochraceous; 

 apices of tarsal joints black. 



Var. Pronotum without the transverse series of basal black 

 spots. 



Length 4; breadth between pronotal angles 3| millim. 



'Hob. Nilgiri Hills (T. V. Campbell). 



SEPONTIA VARIOLOSA (Vol. I, p. 165) ; Bredd. Ann. Soc. Ent. 



Belg. liii, p. 271 (1909). 



Add : Hob. Ceylon ; Matala, Kandy, Bandarawella, Negombo 

 (fide Breddin). 



SEPONTIA IMPUKA, Bredd. Arch. Naturg. Berl. 1913, p. 102. 

 This species was described from Madras. Length 3| ; breadth 

 between pronotal angles 3 millim. 



Genus EUSARCOCORIS*. (Vol. I, p. 165 & Vol. IV, p. 439.) 



EUSARCOCORIS GUTTIGER. (Vol. I, p. 165.) 



Add : Hal. South India ; Chikkaballapura (T. V. Campbell). 



EUSARCOCORIS VENTRALIS (Vol. I, p. 167) ; Bredd. Ann. Soc. 

 Ent. Belg. liii, p. 273 (1909). 



Breddin has recorded this species from Ceylon ; Mihintale, 

 Kanthalay, Anuradhapura. India ; Sara Ghat (H. H. Mann at 

 light). 



* Bergroth in a paper which I have only just seen (Journ. Bomb. N. H. Soc. 

 xxiv, p. 172, 1915), has described a species, E. proximus from Bombay which 

 is stated to differ from E. guttiger, " by the considerably narrower post-frenal 

 part of the scutellum. 



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