104 MK. W. r. KIEBY ON THE 



*tODONTOPUS VAEICOENIS. 



Cimex varicornis, Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. p. 298, n. 194 (l/S/). 

 Eecorded from India, Ceylon, and Java. 

 Mr. Green's specimen is from Kandj. 



*tODO]SrTOPUS LINEATIPES. 



Odontopus lineatipes, Stdl, (Efv. Vet.-Akad, Handl. xv. p. 44 1 

 (1858). 



Dysdercus lineatipes, Dohrn, Stett. ent. Zeit. xxi. p. 405, n. 65 

 (1860). 



A very handsome species. Mr. Green's specimen is without 

 locality. 



*tDTSDEE,CUS CINGIJIiATUS. 



Cimex cingulatus, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 719j n. 108 (1775). 



Abundant from India to Australia. The typical form, with 

 black legs and a black band on the front of the thorax, seems 

 to be scarcer in Ceylon than the redder varieties. 



Mr. Green's specimens are from Pundaloya and Hambantotta. 



*tDiNDYMUS SiTA, sp. u. (Plate IV. fig. 18.) 



Long. corp. 13 millim. 



Eufo-testaceous, inclining to sanguineous towards the lateral 

 margin of the thorax, and at the edges of the corium, espe- 

 cially beneath ; clothed with fine yellowish-grey pubescence, 

 most thickly on the pectus ; antennae black, the basal half of the 

 last segment white. Thorax with the front and sides of nearly 

 equal length, but widened behind, so that the hind border is about 

 half as long again as the others ; the lateral margins are slightly 

 raised, and a groove runs across the middle, behind which the 

 thorax is closely and thickly punctured, as are also the edges of the 

 corium bordering on the scutellura. Membrane fusco-hyaline, 

 with a large oval black spot at the base. The rostrum extends 

 to the middle coxae. Temora rufo-testaceous ; knees, tibiae, and 

 tarsi blackish ; front femora thickened and denticulated, several 

 of the intermediate teeth being larger than the others. 



Pundaloya. 



Much resembles a species from Hong Kong, Philippines, Dorey, 

 &c., ticketed Dysdercus ononostigma by Walker ; but all the spe- 

 cimens of the latter species are much longer and narrower, with 

 the antennae black, or with the penultimate segment, and some- 



