286 Mr. W. L. Distant on Piratinsc. 



Genus Easahus. 



Jlasahus maculipennis. 



Jieduviui^ maculipennif!, Lepell. & Serv. Encyl. Meth. x. p. 276 (182o). 

 Pirates bijjlaf/uitus, Walk. Cat. Het. vii. p. 105. n. 34 (187.3). ■ 



Jlasahus jlavovittatus. 



Sphodrocorisjlavomtmus, Stal, Eq. Hem. ii. p. 107 (1872). 

 Virates vittifer, Walk. Oat. Het. vii. p. 106. n. 35 (1873). 



Mr. Chainpioa has compaied the types of Stal and Walker. 



Basahus rufiventris. 



Pirates rtifiventris, Walk. Cat. Het. vii. p. 107. n. 38 (1873), 



Jlasahus (eneus. 



Pirates (sneiis, Walk. Cat, Het. vii. p. 108. n. 40 (1873), 



Genus SiRTHENEA. 

 Sirthenea favipes. 



Jlasahus Jlavipes, StSl, CEfv. Vet.-Ak. Forh. 1855, p. 187. 

 Basahus Cu7nin(ji, Dohrn, Stett. ent. Zeit. xxi. p. 407 (1860), 

 Pirates striyifer, Walk. Cat. Het. vii. p. 116. n. 71 (1873). 

 Pirates basiger, Walk. loc. cit. p. 117. n. 72. 



Sirthenea horrida. 



Lestomerns horridus, Kirbv, Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xxiv. p. Ill, pi. iv, 

 tig. 16(1891). 



Kirby's type is an immature specimen. I liave since 

 received perfect examples from Ceylon and Burma, and the 

 British Museum also contains another Burmese immature 

 but more fully developed specimen than the Ceylonese type. 

 (J , Hemelytra reaching apex of abdomen, piceous, opaque ; 

 apical area of clavus and a fused spot on claval margin of 

 corium and a spot on basal area of membrane pale ochraceous. 



Sirthenea vittata^ sp. n. 



Head, pronotura, and scutellum shining black; corium, 

 membrane, body beneath, rostrum, and legs piceous brown ; 

 a'A elongate longitudinal discal vitta to corium, antennae, 

 apices of intermediate and posterior coxfe, upper surface and 

 a vitta on each side of anterior femora, bases of intermediate 

 jind posterior femora, bases of tibige, and a central and 

 niarginal series of spots to abdomen pale ochraceous. Elon- 

 gate ; finely pilose ; anterior lobe of pronotum longitudinally 



