PB1OSACA. CATACANTHU8. 130 



punctate and rugulose, with scattered ochraceous mottlings, a 

 central ochraceous line nor reaching base, on each side of which 

 is a levigate ochraceous spot, lateral angles robust, somewhat 

 strongly, laterally and a little upwardly produced, their apices 

 shortly acute, their margins serrate, lateral pronotal margins 

 shortly obtusely dentate ; scutellum thickly punctate, three levigate 

 ochraceous spots at base, one at each basal angle, and the third 

 central, the lateral and apical margins very narrow Iv and obscurely 

 dull ochraceous ; corium thickly punctate, a somewhat large 

 irregular im punctate ochraceous spot a little behind middle of disk ; 

 membrane pale bronzy-brown ; connexivum pale testaceous spotted 

 with black ; sternum black, greyishly tomentose, finely punctate ; 

 abdomen dull ochraceous, the spiracles and lateral marginal spots 

 black ; coxae and femora ochraceous, apical areas of femora, and 

 the whole of the tibiaa and tarsi, black ; rostrum just reaching 

 the posterior coxae, its apex black ; abdominal spine not extending 

 beyond the posterior coxae ; sternum distinctly centrally sulcate. 



Length, d !), $ 10| ; breadth between pronotal angles, 

 cJ 7, $ 8 millita. 



Hab. Sikkira ; Kurseong. 



Genus DEGONETUS. (Vol. I, p. 208.) 

 DEGONETUS SEREATUS. (Vol. I, p. 209.) 

 Add: Hab. Bombay; Matheran (Puna Coll.). 



Genus PLACOSTERNUM. (Vol I, p. 209.) 

 3713. Placosternum fictisius, sp. n. 



A short, broad species allied to P. taurus (vol. i, p. 209, fig. 132), 

 but with the lateral margins of the pronotum much less strongly 

 dentate, the punctures finer and less confluent, the lateral spines 

 shorter and only iinisinuate ; scutellum more finely and regularly 

 punctate, the punctures non-confluent; corium more finely and 

 less confidently punctured ; apex of scutellum more broadly 

 rounded. 



Length 19; breadth between pronotal angles 14 inillim. 



Hab. Simla (on Banian tree). Dehra Dun. 



Genus AMBLYCARA. (Vol. I, p. 217.) 

 AMBLTCABIA GLADIATORIA. (Vol. I, p. 217.) 

 Add : Hab. Australia ; Queensland (F. P. Dodd). 



Genus CATACANTHUS. (Vol. I, p. 218.) 



Breddiu (Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. liii, p. 276 (1909)) has described 

 a species (G. horni) which he had recorded as a variety of 

 C. incarnatus in 1903. It is from Ceylon. 



