586 Mr. W. L. Distant's 



segment and large lateral abdominal spots dark bluish-green ; 

 antennas, legs, two discal spots to pronotum, a series of large 

 marginal spots to connexivum, and central abdominal spots to 

 abdomen, dark indigo-blue ; membrane brassy black ; extreme 

 apices of femora, coxae, lateral margins of meso- and metasterna, 

 posterior margin of metasternum, and basal abdominal spine, 

 ochraceous. 



Second and third joints of antennae shorter than fourth and fifth 

 joints ; lateral margins of pronotum very distinctly reflexed ; 

 pronotum very obscurely punctate, scutellum and corium much more 

 distinctly punctate, apex of scutellum almost levigate ; membrane 

 considerably passing apex of abdomen. 



Long. incl. membrane 28 millim. Exp. pronot. angl. 13 millim. 



Hah. India, Travancore. 



A species by markings more resembling G. nigripes, 

 Sulz., than the common oriental G. incamatus, Drury. 



Axiagastus mitescens, sp. n. 



Head, pronotum and scutellum ochraceous • head with the 

 margins of the central lobe black ; antennae with the basal joint 

 ochraceous, second third and fourth joints black, fifth joint 

 mutilated ; pronotum with the lateral margins, a subanterior 

 marginal series of punctures, four small spots in transverse series on 

 anterior area, followed by a few scattered very coarse punctures, and 

 an irregular series of coarse punctures near posterior margin, black ; 

 scutellum with three large black spots, two — rounded — on anterior 

 disk, the other — sublunate — before apex ; corium ochraceous, very 

 thickly blackly punctate, the lateral margins, veins, and some discal 

 markings, levigate ochraceous ; membrane cupreous ; body beneath 

 and legs ochraceous ; anterior and lateral margins — narrowly — of 

 prosternum, coarse punctures to prosternum, a spot on each sternal 

 segment, stigmata — with an outer and inner row of spots, and narrow 

 posterior margins to abdominal segments, black. 



Long. 13 to 14 millim. Exp. pronot. angl. 9 millim. 



Hah. Hainan Island. 



Allied to A. rosmarus, Dall., from which it differs by the 

 much less and differently punctured head and pronotum, 

 different colour of antennae, etc. 



Brachycoris thoracicus, sp. n. 



Head, pronotum, and antennae black; corium and scutellum 

 ochraceous ; nearly basal half of corium, and less than basal half of 



