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42. Polididus armatissimus, Stal. 

 *43. Nagusta macroloha, Bergr. 



En his Indian Fauna Distant has translated my Latin description of this 

 species into English, but in two places the word ocelli is rendered with 

 " eyes", the description of the pale markings of the head is quite incor- 

 rectly rendered, and the strongly produced lateral lobe of the female 

 abdomen — one of the principal characters of the species — is not mentioned 

 at all. I must therefore refer to my original description. 



44. Rihirbus trochantericus, Stal. 



The specimen (a c? ) resembles Renter's variety testacea, but the head 

 is black above, excluding the base. This species is so variable in colour 

 that scarcely any two specimens are quite alike. It is not advisable to 

 give names to these varieties. The black colour is more dominant in the 

 female. 

 *45. Eindaus alternus, n. sp, 



Fusco-testaceus, abdomine lateribus fusco, sed dimidio postico limbi 

 lateralis segmentorum quattuor mediorum albido, articulo primo antenna- 

 rum basin versus pallescente, femoribus anticis ferrugineis, annulo obso- 

 lete medio et distincto dimidii apicalis femorum annuloque dimidii basa- 

 lis tibiarum albescentibus, pronoto et pectore breviter ochreo-sericeis. 

 Caput pone antennas tuberculo parvo obtuso instructum, articulo primo 

 antennarum capite, pronoto scutelloque unitis longiore, medium corporis 

 superante, articulo primo rostri ceteris conjunctis teque longo, marginem 

 posticum oculorum subattingente. Pronotum capiti seque longum, tub- 

 erculo angulorum apicalium brevi, sed apice acuto, spinis lobi postici 

 longiusculis, acutis, asquilongis, spinis humeralibus extrorsum et sursum 

 directis, marginibus lateralibus posticis pone spinas humerales dente desti- 

 tutis, angulis basalibus levissime obtuse prominiilis. (Scutellum aculacsum, 

 baud describendum.) Hemelytra apicem abdominis nonnihil superantia, 

 corio subglabro, maculis parvis tomentosis destitute, cellula discoidali 

 longiuscula, antice latiore et valde obliquata. Abdomen ( § ) a basi sua 

 fere usque ad medium segmenti sexti sensim leviter dilatatum, marginibus 

 lateralibus hujus segmenti mox ante medium rotundato-angulatis, deinde 

 fortiter convergentibus. Femora antica posticis paullo breviora, hsec 

 articulo primo antennarum sat multo breviora. Long. $ 18'6 mm. 



In size and colour, and in the shape of the abdomen, this species much 

 resembles E. kandyensis, Dist., but the first antennal joint is longer, the 

 pronotum is not mottled with ochraceous pile but evenly and not verj^ 

 densely sericeous the hemelytra are longer, and the lateral borders of the 

 abdomen alternately coloured with fuscous and whitish. 



On Kandyensis Distant founded the genus Lanca, which is" a plain 

 synonym of Epidaus, Stal. Distant (Rhynch. Brit. Ind. II., p. 365) cites 

 Pnirsus, Stal, ni conformity with Stal's arrangement, as a subgenus of 

 Endochus, but gives " disk of posterior lobe [of pronotum] unarmed" as a 

 character of this genus, having apparently overlooked that the posterior 

 pronotal lobe in the subgenus Pnirsus is armed with two discal spines. As 

 a matter of fact Endochus contains in Distant's work only species without 

 discal spines on the pronotum, and it is therefore possible that some or 

 all of the new species described by him as belonging to JSpi<:ZaMS really belong 

 to the subgenus Pnirsus of Endochus, as understood by Stal. The genera 

 Endochus (incl. Pnirstcs) and E^yldaus were distinguished by Stal almost 

 only by the structure of the scutellum, but this is variable to some extent 

 in these genera. Distant's generic apportionment of the species of Epidaus 

 and Endochus seems to me to be more natural than that of Stal, and 



