208 Mr. W. L. Distant on Harpactorliiffi, 



reddish ocliraceous ; apex of first and the whole of the 

 remaining joints of antennae, scutellum, corium, membrane, 

 connexivum, coxa?, intermediate and posterior legs, lateral 

 areas of meso- and metasterna, and anal segment of abdomen 

 black ; two somewhat bioad annulations to intermediate and 

 posterior femora, head, sternum, and abdomen beneath 

 luteous ; apices of intermediate and posterior tibiae brownish 

 ochraceous. Body pilose ; head and pronotum prominently, 

 and legs, especially basal areas of tibiae, longly pilose ; discal 

 sulcation to pronotum distinct and profound ; head longer 

 than posterior lobe of pronotum. In fresh specimens the 

 disk of the corium is suffused with cretaceous white. 



Long. 18-20 millim. 



Bab. New Guinea; Dorey ; K^ Islands (Wallace, Brit. 

 Mus.). 



Genus BiASTicus. 

 Biasticus Horsfieldi, sp. n. 



^ . Black ; a lateral spot on each side of head in 

 front of eyes, head beneath, posterior margins of first and 

 second abdominal segments, linear spots to connexivum above 

 and beneath, lateral margins of apical abdominal segment, 

 and anterior margin of anal segment luteous ; margins of 

 third, Iburth, and fifth abdominal segments brownish ochra- 

 ceous ; antennae piceous, first joint (excluding base and apex) 

 brownish. 



? . Abdomen with about the apical fourth sanguineous. 



Head with the postocular portion a little longer than 

 the anteocular ; first joint of the rostrum a little shorter 

 than the second ; anterior pronotal lobe profoundly centrally 

 sulcate, posterior lobe distinctly ridged on anterior disk ; 

 body and legs finely pilose ; femora obscurely apically 

 nodulose. 



Long. 10| millim. 



Hah. Ja\ii{BorsJidd, Brit. Mas.). 



Genus Sphedanolestes. 



Sphedanolesles suhjlaviceps. 



Harpador sttbfiaviceps, Sign. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1860, p. 965; Leth. & 



Sev. Cat. G(5n. Hem. t. iii. p. 162 (1896). 

 Beduvhts giihsus, St§.l, Hem. Afr. iii. p. 91 (1865). 



Sphedanolestes hicoloripes, 



Redvvius hicoloripes, Dist. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, p. 106. 



Harjjnctor bicolvripes, Leth. & Sev. Cat. G^n, Hem. t. iii. p. 158 (1896). 



