1908.] Records of the Indian Museum. 145 



spinous^ anterior margin a little excavate for the reception of the 

 head ; scutellum broad ^ subtriangular^ about as long as broad at 

 base J transversely impressed before apical area which is centrally 

 longitudinally carinate; tegmina long and narrow, much longer than 

 abdomen, valvate beyond clavus, three long apical cells, one or more 

 small subapical cells beyond clavus (inconstant in number) ; legs 

 very robust, excluding posterior femora longly spinulose, posterior 

 femora strongly broadened and spinulose at their apices, tibiae 

 moderately flattened and sulcate beneath. 



Type D. laudata, Dist, 



I have placed this genus provisionally in the Gyponince. 



Doda laudata, sp. nov. (PI. vii, figs. 9, 9a.) 



Vertex, pronotum and scutellum black finely mottled with 

 ochraceous, vertex more or less anteriorly ochraceous ; pronotum 

 with a greyish spot on the central carination ; scutellum with a 

 spot on each lateral margin and the apex greyish white, body beneath 

 and legs black, basal area of face margined with ochraceous, and 

 with two small greyish spots at base ; anterior femora obscurely 

 spotted with dull ochraceous beneath ; tegmina black, largely spot- 

 ted with white, the largest spots on costal and inner margins, some 

 minute reddish-ochraceous spots on disk ; wings pale fuliginous. 



Long excl. tegm. 5 mm. ; incl. tegm. 8-| mm. 

 Hab. — Siam, Malay States ; Bukit Besar (Annandale and 

 Robinson ; Brit. Mus.), Borneo ; Kuching (Hewitt). 



Sub-fam. Jassinae/ 



Genus Hecalus. 



Hecalus, Stal, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (4), iv, p. 65 (1864). 

 Type H. paykulli, Stal. 



Hecalus parvus. 



Ledra parva, Walk., List Hom., iii, p. 828 (1851). 

 Selenocephalus parva, vStal, Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Forh., 1862, p. 494. 

 Hab. — Hongkong. 



Genus Dabrescus. 



Dabrescus, Stal, Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Forh., 1870, p. 738. 

 Type D. reniotus, Walk. 



Dabrescus ineffectus. 



Bythoscopus ineffectus, Walk., List Hom. Suppl,,p.266 (1858). 



Hab.— North China. 



Dabrescus metallicus. (PI. viii, figs. 12, 12a.) 



Bythoscopus metallicus, Walk., Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond.Zool., i, 



P- ^7Z (1857). 

 Hab. — Borneo. 



Iiuiudir.g the AcoC('pJia!iiia'. 



