HEMIPTEBA HETEEOPTEEA OF CETLOIT. 113 



Allied to P.fuscicornis, Dohrn, and to P. ypsilon (infra) ; but 

 differs in the colour o£ the legs, antennae, abdomen, &c. 



*t Pirates TPsiLoif, sp. n. (Plate lY. fig. 8.) 



Long. Corp. 13 millim. 



Dull black ; antennae testaceous ; scape dark reddish brown ; 

 scutellum with a T-shaped carina, the part behind the branches 

 of a more velvety black. Tegmina dull black, with a large tes- 

 taceous blotch on the middle of the inner margin ; inner margin 

 to half the distance to the base, and the centre of tlie tegmina 

 beyond to the crossing of the nervures (which at this point 

 are slightly testaceous), velvety black. Rostrum shining black, 

 testaceous at the extremity. Abdominal margin spotted with 

 testaceous. Legs testaceous, the base of the coxae, the trochanters, 

 the front femora, and the basal half of the four hinder femora 

 black ; tibiae blackish above towards the tips. 



Allied to the last two species. 



Pundaloya. Pound under decaying leaves (^E. E. G.). 



Pirates qfadrinotatus. 



Reduvius quadrinotatus, Fabr. Ent. Syst. Suppl, p. 544 (1798). 

 yPeirates biguttatus, Dohrn, Stett. ent. Zeit. xxi. p. 407, n. 96 

 (1860). 



Recorded from India and Ceylon. 



*t Pirates pictus. 



Pirates (?) pictus, Herr.-S chaff. Wanz. Ins. viii. p. 63, pi. 268. f. 827 

 (1848). 



Recorded from India, China, and Ceylon. 



The locality of Mr. Grreen's ispecimens is not noted. 



EUMERUS INSIGNIS. 



Eumerus insiguis, Renter, Act. Fenn. xii. p. 317 (1881). 

 Described from Ceylon. 



Prostemma cardfelis. 



Prosteirima carduelis, Dohrn, Stett. ent. Zeit. xix. p. 229, pi. i. f. 8 

 (1869). 



Described from Ceylon. 



Nabis cribraticollis. 



Gorpis cribraticollis, Stal, CEfv. Vet.-Akad. Forh. xvi. p. 377 (I860). 



Described from Ceylon. 



