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ProiiotiiDi (Plate X, fig. 2) covered with fine slmrt jiale hairs, its niaxinuiin wicUh aliout 

 two and a quarter times the median length (1.06, 0.47 mm.), anterior collar moderately well 

 developed, its width (0.38 mm.) just over one-third the maximum width of the pronotum, 

 lateral margins immarginate feebly rounded from the collar and quite straight throughout the 

 greater part of their length, posterior angles obtusely pointed, disc strongly rugose, save a 

 longitudinally impressed raised transverse area immediately in front of the transverse fovea, 

 which is set in the middle of the mid-line of the pronotum and occupies more than one- 

 third of the width of the pronotum at that level, posterior part of disc with traces of a longi- 

 tudinal central depression, posterior margin widely emarginate before the base of the scutellum. 

 Scutellum covered with fine short pale hairs, longer (0.62 mm.) than the pronotum and 

 about one and a cpiarter times as wide (0.77 mm.) as long, with a well-marked transverse 

 fovea behind the middle, anteriorly somewhat swollen and remotely punctate, apex somewhat 

 rugose. 



Prosternum with its posterior margin somewhat marginated, except centrally where it 

 is produced backwards as a short xyphus betwesn the anterior coxae, its disc somewhat rugose, 

 with an indistinct transverse carina behind the middle. 



Mesosternum smooth, its posterior margin rounded and centrally a little emarginate, 

 disc with a fine longitudinal groove running forward from the emargination almost to the 

 anterior coxae. 



Metasternum rounded posteriorly and elevated. 



Orifices of metathoracic scent-glands curved slightly forward externally and \\ith a very 

 fine carina running forward from the outer end of the orifice (Plate X, fig. 4). 



Legs with fine pale hairs on all joints, slightly sparser than those of the antennae, 

 tibiae slightly incrassated apically, anterior femur very slightly shorter than the tibia, which 

 is just over three times the length of the tarsus, the latter just under three times the length 

 of the curved claws (0.73, 0.80, 0.25, 0.09 mm.), intermediate femur very slightly shorter 

 than the tibia, which is just under three times the length of the tarsus, the latter just over 

 three times the length of the curved claws (0.76, 0.84, 0.31, 0.09 mm.), posterior femur 

 about five-sixths the length of the tibia, which is a little over three and a half times the length 

 of the tarsus, the later about three times the length of the straight claws (1.02, 1.20, 0.33, 

 0.11), last tarsal joint of each leg just over half the length of the tarsus. 



Elytra surpassing the apex of the abdomen, covered with fine short pale hairs, coarsely 

 but obscurely punctured and sub-nitid throughout, cuneus entirel}' Ijehind the apex of clavus, 

 its marginal length (0.62 mm.) about three-fifths that of the embolium (1.16 nun.), embolial 

 margins straight and subparallel, all membranal veins save the outer one more or less obsolete. 



S . Left paramere narrow, sickle-shaped, and angulate (Plate X, fig. 5). 



Length 3.52 mm., maximum breadth 1.24 mm. 



Indian Tibet. S (holotypc) Leh, Residency Garden, apparently IjIdwu from Pupitlics 

 sp., 19 September, 1932. 



The present species, in its rostruiu, metasternum, odoriferous glands, runeus and pro- 

 notum agrees sufficiently well with Antliocoris to be included in that genus. It differs from 

 its previously described congenus in its almost unicolorous elytra which are perhaps more 

 clearly punctate than usual in Antliocoris. A. gyalpo appears to belong to that section of the 

 genus in which the antennae are longer than the head and pronotum together, of which 

 A. syh'cstris (Linn.) is the best known member, but is easily distinguished from var. nigri- 



