82 MB. W. F. KIRBY ON THE 



^fMoRMIDEA TLORElSrS. 



Momiidea florens, Walk. Cat. Het. Hem. B. M. ii. p. 263, n. 62 (1867). 



A well-known aud rather variable East-Indian species. Mr. 

 G-reen's collection contains a specimen from Pundaloya, with a 

 reddish-tawny stripe running across the front of the thorax 

 from the tip of one projection to the tip of the other. Tlie 

 projecting angles beneath are of the same colour, edged outside 

 with black. The round spot at the end of the scutellum is of a 

 distinctly greenish white. Without a larger series from various 

 localities, it is impossible to determine whether this Cinghalese 

 form should be regarded as a species or not. 



*tMORMIDEA SIMILIS, Sp. n. 



Long. corp. 8 millim. ; lat. 5 millim. 



G-reenish olive, with large punctures ; antennae and legs paler ; 

 shoulder-angles broad, moderately long and pointed ; thorax 

 with a transverse, smooth, black depression at the extremity ; 

 basal angles of the scntellum with large ivory-white smooth 

 spots, between which a pale pear-shaped mark, punctured with 

 black, rises from a semicircular ivory-white mark with only 

 a few punctures, at the tip of the scutellum ; tegmina with a 

 reddish shade, most distinctly seen as an oblique red streak, less 

 strongly punctured than the rest ; projecting part of the corium 

 hyaline. 



Under surface paler than above and much less strongly punc- 

 tured, witli scattered black spots. 



Closely allied to the Indian M. socia, Walk., but in that 

 species there is no red shade on the tegmina, the scutellar 

 spots are much less sharply defined, and the under surface is 

 marked with smaller and more regular dots. In M. contigua, 

 Walk., from Java, the reddish shade extends over the greater 

 part of the tegmina, and the shoulder-angles are longer and more 

 acute. 



The type is labelled " Putlam." 



*t (?) tEscheus obscueus. 



JEschrus obscurus, Dallas, List Hem, Ins. B. M. i. p. 221, n. 1 

 (1851). 



A somewhat rare species, recorded from India and Java. An 

 immature specimen in Mr. Green's collection, without special 

 locality, seems to be referable to this insect. 



