22 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



EHYNCHOTA INDICA (HETEROPTERA). 

 By W. L. Distant. 



With vol. v. of my Rhynchotal portion of the ' Fauna of 

 British India,' the Heteroptera, so far as that publication is 

 concerned, must be considered as a completed subject. Fresh 

 material, however, continues to reach my hands, and, as the 

 Editor of this Magazine has offered me the hospitality of his 

 pages, I propose from time to time to continue the description 

 and enumeration of such species as have not previously been 

 included in the fauna. 



The Homoptera will be supplemented in another volume of 

 the original work. 



Fam. PENTATOMID^. 



Mliomorpha jietcheri, sp. n. 



$ . Body and legs pale brownish-ochraceous ; head punctate, 

 the lateral margins strongly sinuate, central lobe prominent, de- 

 pressed at apex ; antennae ochraceous, the second and third joints 

 infuscate, first joint short, not reaching apex of head, second very 

 short and subobsolete, third slightly longer than either fourth or 

 fifth, which are subequal in length ; pronotum granulose, more dis- 

 tinctly so on basal half, a central narrow levigate hne, the lateral 

 margins sinuate, the lateral angles subprominent and broadly sub- 

 acute ; scutellum more or less wrinkled and finely punctate, a small 

 pale levigate spot near each basal angle; corium thickly finely punc- 

 tate, inner margin at apical area of scutellum narrowly blackish ; 

 membrane hyaline, distinctly passing abdominal apex ; connexivum 

 ochraceous with large segmental brownish spots ; lateral areas of 

 sternum and abdomen beneath thickly punctate ; rostrum reaching 

 posterior coxae, its apex black. Long, i millim. 



Hob. Ceylon ; Hambantota (Bainbrigge Fletcher— Brit. 

 Mus.). 



This is the second species of the genus at present described 

 from Britisii India. 



Hahjomorpha illuminata, sp. n. 



Ochraceous, more or less punctured with olivaceous-green or 

 fuscous ; head thickly olivaceously punctate, the margins moderately 

 reflexed, the apex subtruncate, lateral lobes very slightly longer than 

 the central lobe ; antennae blackish, basal joint ochraceous with an 

 outer black line, first joint almost but not quite reaching apex of 

 head, second shorter than third, third and fourth subequal in length, 

 fifth a little longest with the base ochraceous ; pronotum ochraceous, 

 thickly olivaceously punctate, excepting a discal transverse ochraceous 

 area between but not reaching the latei-al angles, this area is almost 

 impunctate, but usually contains two maculate chisters of dark punc- 

 tures, extreme margins narrowly ochraceous, lateral angles sub- 



