402 Mr. W. L. Distant on Heteroptera. 



pronotal lobe more purplish black, with an ochraceous sub- 

 marginal line near each lateral angle; scutellum black ; 

 coriura ochraceous with dark punctures, inner margin and 

 apex of clavus, inner marginal area and apical margin of 

 corium black ; membrane fuscous brown, with curved longi- 

 tudinal whitish lines ; body beneath, legs, and rostrum 

 black ; second joint of rostrum, apices of anterior femora, 

 apical halves of intermediate femora, and anterior and 

 intermediate tibiae and tarsi, ochraceous, the latter infuscate 

 at apices ; (posterior legs mutilated in typical specimen ;) 

 antennse black, the apical joint with its basal half stramineous, 

 first joint slightly passing apex of head, second and fourth 

 joints subequal in length, each a little longer than third ; 

 pronotal collar broad, anterior pronotal lobe about one and 

 a half times as long as posterior lobe and very distinctly 

 narrower; corium with the dark punctures in longitudinal 

 series ; anterior femora finely but prominently spined beneath ; 

 rostrum reaching the anterior coxae. 



Length 5 mm. 



Hab. Ceylon (Vienna Museum). 



Adauctus, gen. nov. 



Subovate ; head about as long as broad, subtriangular, 

 obliquely narrowed anteriorly, the central lobe prominent ; 

 ocelli near base and close to eyes ; antennae with the basal 

 joint slightly passing apex of head, second joint a little 

 longest ; rostrum reaching the intermediate coxae, basal 

 joint not reaching base of head, second joint extending to 

 anterior coxae; pronotum not transversely constricted, the 

 lateral margins strongly carinate, and anteriorly moderately 

 rounded and narrowed, posterior margin truncate ; scutellum 

 a little longer than broad, the lateral margins obliquely 

 -"'traight ; corium apically strongly broadened, the apical 

 ma.^gin wide, obliquely straight, claval ridges prominent ; 

 memb.vane slightly passing abdominal apex (veins to both 

 coriuni c*nd membrane will be shown in figure) ; anterior 

 femora thickened, finely spined beneath, tibiae somewhat 

 longly spinuiiose ; sternum coarsely punctate, the presternum 

 more finely pu.nctate. 



In the enumeration of the Oriental Lygaeidae to be 

 placed near DinieiUa and Microcoris. 



Adixtuctus cupreus, sp. n. 



Head, pronotum, anci! scutellum pale cupreous ; lateral 

 margins of the pronotum^ (not extending to the lateral 



