190 Mr. W. L. Distant on Reduviidse. 



Smmthiis Greent, sp. n. 

 Pale sanguineous ; head in front of eyes, eyes, area of the 

 ocelli, a small ppot on each side of base, anterior lobe of pro- 

 notum (excluding base), lateral margins of posterior lobe, 

 corium, nifmbrane, connexivum, prosternum, lateral margins 

 of meso- and nietasterna, lateral areas of abdomen beneath, 

 apices of the femora, and under surfaces of anterior and inter- 

 mediate femora piceous; tibiae ferruginous; antennae brownish 

 ochraceous, ajjical joint and base and apex of second joint 

 piceous ; base of corium and clavus sanguineous. Posterior 

 lobe of pronotum with three distinct longitudinal impressions ; 

 baFG of scutellum centrally sulcate. 



Long. 17 niillim. 



IJab. Ceylon {Green, Brit. Mus.). 



Genus StALIASTES. 



Staliastes riifus. 



Tapeinua rufus, de Casteln. Essai, p. 82, $ (1832). 

 Opinus semicostalis, Walk. Cat. Het. viii. p. 4. n. IG (1873). 



Staliastes strigifer. 



Opinus drigifer, "Walk. Cat. Ilet. viii. p. 3. n. 14 (1873). 



The antennae are not black as described by Walker, but 

 pale fuscous, excluding basal joint and base of second joint. 



Genus Durganda. 

 I) u rga n da n ig ripes. 



Opinus nigripes, "Walk. Cat. Het. viii. p. 4. h. 17 (1873). 



Durganda Signoreti, nom. nov. 



Durganda nigripes, ^^g"- (nom. prseocc), Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. 

 Genov. XV. p. o48(]880). 



Genus TiARODES. 

 Tiarodes ohyanus, sp. n. 



Sanguineous ; head, fifth and sixth segments and apex of 

 abdomen bluish black ; corium (excepting basal angle) and 

 the membrane black ; legs brownish, finely ochraceously 

 pilose, femora bluish-black above; connexivum sanguineous, 

 with the last two segments bluish black; head with an 

 ochraceous collar ; antennae with the first and second joints 

 bluish black, third joint brownish ochraceous ; head faintly 



