Mr. W. L. Distant on l*iiitatoniina?. 421 



on basal area, more tliiekly ami bruwnly punetale on pustcrior 

 area; a lary;e spot in each basal area, a larj^'er sjxjt on each 

 lateral mar;^in belure mitldle, and a smaller (often obscure) 

 diseal spot between tliem black. Coriiun ocliraceous, broadly 

 black at base, brownish towards apex. Connexivuni, body 

 beneath, and le^s ocliraceous; head and margins of pro- and 

 nitsosternum widely black, lateral margins of metasternum 

 \\ idely castaneous ; stigniatal abdominal spots fuscous. An- 

 tennoi brownish ocliraceous, the two ajjical joints ])iceous. 

 Kostrum brownish ocliraceous, its apex piceous. 



Anterior lateral angles of the pronotum moderately and 

 subacutely produced ; scutellum broad, concavely sinuate 

 before middle, its apex about reaching apex of abdomen, 

 strongly depressed posteriorly. 



Long. 5 millim. ; exp. pronot. angl. ."Ji— 4 millim. 



JJab. Ceylon (Atkinson Coll. : Jirit. .Mus.) ; Pegu (Atkin- 

 son Coll. : JJrit. Mus.). 



Genus Piezodorus. 



Piezodorus rithrofasciatus. 



Vimex rtibrofascUitus, Fabr. Mant. lus. ii. p. 293 (1787). 

 Jihajj/iii/atiter e.ih'iiuutit.i, Walk. Cat. Ilet. ii. p. 371. u. 84 (1867). 

 IthiphiyasUr pdUi'scenSy ^^'aIk. loc. cit. iii. p. 568 (1868). 



Piezodorus puiictiventris. 



Ithaphiijaster punvtiventriK, Dall. List Hem. i. p. 284. u. 31 (18-31). 

 Antestia punctiientris, Walk. Cat. Ilet. ii. p. 280. n. 8 (18G7). 



Piezodorus ? inexpertus, 

 Rh(q)hiy aster ine.i-pertus, Walk. Cat. Ilet. ii. p. 363. n. 56 (1867). 



The type and only si)ecimen of this species upon which 

 \\ alker tounded his description is in bad condition and unlit 

 for exact determination. 



Piezodorus incarnatus. 



Cijne.v incarnatus, Gerin. Faiui. Ins. Eur. iv. p. 23. 



IHezodurus incarnatuK, .Mulsant .K: Key, Ann. 8oc. Linn, de Lyon, 18(57, 



p. 224. 

 lihaphii/aster parilis, Walk. Cat. Ilet. ii. p. 374. ii. !)5 (1867). 



Genus Thoreyella. 

 Tltoreyella concolor, 

 Munnidea concolor, Walk. Cat. Ilet. ii. p. 256. n. 27 (1867). 



