14 Mr. W. L. Distant on Coreide. 
Genus CLORESMUS. 
Cloresmus modestus, sp. n. 
&. Body above brownish ochraceous, sometimes tinged 
with purplish; antenne, rostrum, a central fascia to head 
beneath, and mesosternum, anterior and intermediate legs, 
posterior trochanters and tarsi ochraceous ; posterior legs and 
abdomen beneath reddish brown; abdomen above purplish, 
sometimes pale castaneous, with three pale central ochraceous 
spots—one on second segment and the others at junction of 
third and fourth and fourth and fifth segments; connexivum 
above and beneath ochraceous, spotted with black or casta- 
neous at the incisures; membrane pale fuscous; scutellum 
with the apex and basal angles narrowly ochraceous. 
&. With a very distinct spine on outer edge of posterior 
coxe; rostrum extending about halfway across mesosternum ; 
antenne very hirsute, first and third and second and fourth 
joints almost subequal in length; posterior femora armed with 
a long spine beneath a little beyond centre. 
Long., ¢ 18 millim., 2 16 millim. 
Hab. & 2, British India, North Khasia Hills (Chennell, 
Col!. Dist.); 9, Singapore (H. N. Ridley, Brit. Mus.). 
The Singapore specimen is somewhat paler beneath than 
in the Khasia examples. 
The species is allied to NV. nepalensis, Westw., from which 
it differs by its larger size, longer antenne, different colour of 
the abdomen, &e. 
Cloresmus khasianus, sp. n. 
Above pale shining olivaceous or brownish ochraceous, 
with the head and anterior margin of pronotum olivaceous ; 
antenne with the first, second, and third joints brownish 
ochraceous, with their extreme apices olivaceous, fourth joint 
ochraceous, its base and an apical annulation fuscous ; abdo- 
men above sanguineous, with two small ochraceous linear 
spots at bases of fourth and fifth segments; connexivum 
ochraceous, with large fuscous spots at the incisures; pro- 
sternum, anterior and intermediate legs, and posterior tarsi 
ochraceous ; meso- and metasternum, abdomen beneath, and 
posterior legs castaneous ; lateral margins of abdomen ochra- 
ceous, minutely spotted with fuscous at the incisures; head 
beneath and anterior margin of prosternum shining pale 
olivaceous. 
3. Antenna hirsute, the first and third and second and 
