340 Mr. W. L. Distant on Hetcioptera. 



The memlirane reaching the abdominal apex in tliis speojVs 

 ■will require a corresponding modification in the generic 

 diagnosis. 



NEOLETHiEUS, gen. nov. 



Head about as long as broad (including eyes), central lobe 

 a little prominent at apex, ocelli near base, much closer to 

 eyes than to each other ; antennae with the first joint mode- 

 rately thickened, not quite as long as head, second and third 

 joints slender, second longer than third ; rostrum reaching 

 the intermediate coxae, first joint reaching base of head ; pro- 

 notum subquadrate, slightly transversely impressed before 

 middle, much more coarsely punctate behind the impression 

 than before it, and containing a central longitudinal carinate 

 line, the anterior margin truncate, more sparsely punctate, 

 and extending on each side a little beyond eyes, the lateral 

 margins almost obliquely straight, the anterior angles 

 rounded, bai-al margin truncate, the basal lateral angles longi- 

 tudinally ridged ; scutellum triangular, about as long as 

 broad, discally depressed ; membrane slightly passing abdo- 

 minal apex, venation generally as in Lethceus ; femora incras- 

 sate, the intermediate less and the posterior femora a little 

 more so, the anterior femoi'a shortly spined beneath, the 

 intermediate and posterior femora somewhat spinously hirsute, 

 tibiffi spinulose, posterior tarsi with the basal joint twice as 

 long as the remaining joints together. 



NeoletJicBus typicus, sp. n. 



Black; two small spots to c'avus, two on corium (one near 

 middle, the other near apical margin), second and third joints 

 of antennje, rostrum (excluding basal joint), tibiaa, and tarsi 

 more or less ochraceous ; basal joints of antennae and rostrum, 

 femora, and apices of tibia*- and tarsal joints castaneous 

 brown ; head (excluding central lobe) punctate ; pronotum 

 before the faint transverse impression finely, behind it 

 coarsely punctate ; scutellum foveately impressed and some- 

 what sparingly punctate, the lateral marginal areas more 

 thickly and coarsely punctate; corium thickly and finely 

 punctate, the veins prominent, clavus with two longitudinal 

 series of punctures ; membrane brownish ochraceous. 



Long. 9^ mm. 



Hab. Burma ; Palon. 



