Mr. W. L. Distant on Lygeide. 469 
waved fascia near base and a subapical spot brownish grey ; 
antennee with the second joint a little longer than the third, 
fourth long and moderately clavate ; body finely and obscurely 
pilose above, much more distinctly so beneath. 
Long. 54 millim. 
Hab. Ceylon (G. Lewis). 
HeEINsIvs, gen. nov. 
Allied to Ischnodemus in general shape and structure, from 
which it differs principally by the antenne, which in Heinsius 
are clavate, with the first, second, and third joints prominently 
_ hirsute, basal joint shortest and thickest, second joint about 
equal in length to fourth and slightly longer than third, 
fourth joint cylindrical and non-hirsute ; femora incrassated, 
anterior femora armed beneath with about two very fine and 
subobsolete spines. 
Heinsius explicatus, sp. 0. 
Brownish ochraceous; posterior area of the pronotum, 
clavus, and corium pale ochraceous ; membrane greyish with 
the veins fuscous ; adark spot at the apical angles of corium ; 
body beneath greyishly pilose, lateral margins of the abdomen 
greyish. 
Head and pronotum somewhat coarsely punctate, the 
corium more sparsely punctate. 
Long. 4 to 5 millim. 
Hab. N.W. Australia: Troughton and Baudin Islands 
(J. J. Walker, Brit. Mus.). 
GEOCORINE. 
Genus GEocoRIS. 
Geocoris tricolor. 
Cimex tricolor, Fabr. Ent. Syst. Suppl. p. 536. 176-7 (1798). 
Geocoris tricolor, Stal, Hem. Fabr. 1. p. 76 (1868). 
Ophthalmicus cinerascens, Walk. Cat. Het. v. p. 188 (1872). 
Geocoris marginicollis, Dohrn, Stett. ent. Zeit. xxi. p. 405 (2860). 
Geocoris ethiops, sp. n. 
Ophthalmicus ruficeps, Dall. nec Germ, List Hem. ii. p. 584. 5 (1852). 
Pronotum and scutellum bluish black; head, lateral and 
basal margins of pronotum (the last sometimes obsolete, 
except at centre), and extreme apex of scutellum ochraceous ; 
corinm and membrane obscure whitish, corium with a 
large, apical, piceous patch ; sternum black, abdomen beneath 
