from the Oriental Region and China. 475 
beneath ochraceous, sternum coarsely brownly punctate, disk 
of abdomen black; legs brownish ochraceous, spotted with 
fuscous; antennz with first and second joints brownish 
ochraceous, remainder mutilated. 
Long. 43-53 millim.; exp. pronot. angl. 34-4 millim. 
Hab. Malayan Archipelago: Tomia (Brit. Mus.). 
Fam. Hydrometride. 
Subfam. Vezr2z. 
ALARDUS, gen. nov. 
Body elongate; pronotum narrow, longer than broad, 
posteriorly angularly produced, the areas before and behind 
the latitude of the lateral angles about equal, lateral margins 
slightly and obscurely reflexed, lateral angles subnodulose ; 
antenne pilose, first jot longest, second, third, and fourth 
joints subequal; hemelytra not quite reaching abdominal 
apex; legs pilose, posterior legs a little longest, the tibie 
distinctly longest; tarsi three-jointed, intermediate tarsi 
scarcely longer than the posterior tarsi. 
Alardus typicus, sp. 0. 
Head and pronotum ferruginous, the last (excluding 
central fascia and lateral margins) fuscous; hemelytra 
brownish ochraceous, with a discal longitudinal line and 
suffusions on apical area piceous; basal angles, three large 
spots (one elongate and apical, one anteriorly rounded at 
about one third from apex, one linear and submarginal), and 
a number of minute spots on apical half greyish white; 
body beneath piceous, palely pilose ; connexivum above and 
beneath, acetabula, cox, and legs luteous; femora with a 
subapical annulation, anterior and intermediate tibize with 
basal and apical annulations, and posterior tibiz with a basal 
annulation pale brownish. 
Long. 43 millim. 
Hab. Malay Peninsula: Province Wellesley (HZ. N. Ridley, 
Brit. Mus.). 
Fam. Reduviidee. 
Tribelocephala ornata, sp. u. 
Anteocular portion of head, antenne, rostrum, legs, and 
corium ochraceous; postocular portion of head and anterior 
