90 ME. W. r. KIEBT ON IHE 



A common Indian insect. There is a specimen in the British 

 Museum from Ceylon, presented by Dr. Templeton. 



Phtsomebus geossipes. 



Lygseiis grossipes, Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. p. 135, n. 4 (1787). 

 A well-known East-Indian species ; recorded as Cinghalese by 

 Dohrn. 



*tHOM(EOCEEUS MAEGINIVENTEIS. 



Homoeocerus margiaiventris, Dohrn, Stett. ent. Zeit. xxi. p. 402, no. 40 

 (1860). 



Described from Ceylon. 



Two specimens in Mr. Green's collection from Pundaloya. 

 The male differs in having the antennse almost entirely yellow, 

 only slightly browned towards the extremities of the joints, the 

 lateral angles of the thorax much more sharply produced, and 

 the abdomen much less speckled with black beneath, and with 

 the lateral margins unspotted. It may be a distinct species ; 

 but I do not like to describe it as new, in the absence of a series. 



*tHoMCEOCEEUS ANTENNATUS, sp. n. (Plate ly. fig. 6.) 



Long. Corp. 13 millim. 



Head and front of pronotum rufo-testaceous, hinder part of 

 pronotum, scutellum, and corium with the ground-colour paler, 

 but so thickly speckled and reticulated with black as to look 

 darker. Antennae with joints 1 and 4 of equal length, the 2nd 

 only slightly shorter, and the 3rd about half as long as the first. 

 Antennse reddish brown at the base, shading into black about 

 the middle of the second joint ; extreme base of the second joint, 

 a ring at the base of the third, and a much broader one just beyond 

 the base of the fourth, pale yellow. Lateral angles of the 

 pronotum hardly prominent ; lateral margins with a black Hue ; 

 the front of the prothorax with two black dots on each side of 

 the pale median line, conspicuous under a strong lens. Towards 

 the hinder part of the pronotum the punctures are much larger 

 and darker, and are arranged in irregular undulating transverse 

 lines. Scutellum and corium thickly punctured with black, the 

 punctures along the nervures arranged in lines ; edges of the scu- 

 tellum and corium narrowly testaceous, and the tip of the 

 scutellum bone-colour. Membrane fuscous, black at the base. 

 Under surface rufo-testaceous ; pectus with the punctures uni- 



