328 Mr. W. L. Distant on Hcteroptera. 



shorter and evenly thickened posterior femora, not attenuated 

 towards base and incrassate at apices as in Ariemidorus, 



Nerthus dudgeoni, sp. n. 



Head, antennae, pronotum, scutellura, abdomen above, 

 rostrum, and body beneath black ; posterior margin of pro- 

 notum, central apical longitudinal carination to scutelluni,and 

 elongate (almost connected) spots to connexivum very pale 

 ochraceous ; base of first joint of antennas and the legs 

 reddish yellow ; apical angle of covium and the tarsi black ; 

 bases of intermediate and posterior femora stramineous ; 

 head, pronotum, and sternum thickly coarsely punctate ; 

 clavus longitudinally punctate ; corium with the subclaval 

 margin and the costal margin longitudinally punctate; body 

 beneath (especially the abdomen) finely greyishly pilose ; 

 other structural characters as in generic diagnosis. 



Long. 9 mm. 



Hah. Kangra Valley, 4500 feet {Dudgeon). 



Chauliops nigrescens, sp. n. 



Head pale castaneous brown, with an obscure darker longi- 

 tudinal fascia on each side between the bases of antennse and 

 the ocelli ; antennse pale ochraceous, the first and fourth 

 joints brownish ochraceous; pronotum sordidly ochraceous, 

 thickly piceously punctate, a black subanterior marginal 

 fascia (interrupted at middle) and a pale central longitudinal 

 line ; scutellum piceous black ; corium sordidly ochraceous, 

 the clavus and apical area of corium piceous black ; membrane 

 sordidly greyish, with piceous suflTusions ; connexivum pale 

 luteous, spotted with black ; body beneath and legs dull 

 black ; coxae, bases of femora, a broad central annulation to 

 tibise, and the tarsi pale ochraceous ; antennse robust, second 

 and third joints slender, second longest, fourth slightly longer 

 than third ; pronotum gibbously rounded, much as in G. loha- 

 tula, Bredd. ; corium distinctly shorter than membrane, which 

 very slightly extends beyond abdominal apex ; abdomen 

 beneath coarsely granulose. 



Long. 3 mm. 



Hab. N.W.India; Kumaon, Bhim Tal (End. Mus. and 

 Coll. Dist.). 



Epibomius, gen. nov. 



Subelongate ; head about as long as breadth between eyes, 

 somewhat abruptly pointed in front, the lateral margins 



