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pronotum only narrowly visible in front ; davits and corium dull 

 yellow-brown at tbe base, brown or piceous posteriorly. Sides 

 bebind the pronotum parallel. 



Head shining. Antennce ; 2nd joint yellowish, or reddish-brown ; 

 base narrowly, and the upper 3rd piceous or black, extreme apex 

 brown. JEyes black. Ocelli red. Bostrum black. 



Tliorax, — Fronotum ; side margins only visible on the 1st 3rd, very 

 narrow and thin ; disk shining, the callosity smooth, the rest finely 

 punctured, the posterior 3rd sometimes brown or yellow-brown. 

 Scutellmn shining, delicately punctured, apex crenate. Elytra; 

 Clavus dull, smooth ; base more or less yellow, red-brown, or piceous, 

 sometimes with only a long reddish spot on the inner side ; rarely 

 entirely piceous black ; Corium dull, smooth ; base yellow or yellow- 

 brown ; posteriorly dark brown or piceous ; JSmholiujn at the end 

 narrowly yellow-brown, the colour widened internally into a small 

 spot ; Oimeus with longer hairs, finely punctured, shining, black or 

 piceous, the outer margin sometimes yellowish ; Membrane shining, 

 white, apical Brd, and 3 long, broad streaks above it, between the 

 nerves, fuscous black ; cell-nerve brown. When the elytra are closed 

 the membrane appears black, with 3 large white spots in a triangle, 

 1 at the base and 1 on each side under the apex of the cuneus. Ster- 

 num shining, delicately crenate. Legs : Fulcra yellow-brown ; thighs 

 entirely yellow-brown, or brown-black on the upper side ; or piceous- 

 black, with the apex yellow-brown ; tibice yellow-brown, the apex 

 usually piceous or black ; tarsi black-brown, the 2 basal joints usually 

 yellowish ; claws brown. 



Abdomen beneath delicately crenate, shining, the genital segments 

 with a few projecting yellowish hairs. 



Length, 1^ — 2 lines. 



Common on various trees from July to September. 



Species 3. — Anthocoris Sarothamni. 



Black, shining, with fine, longish, yellow hairs. AntenneB stout ; 

 black ; 2nd joint rarely reddish in the middle. Pronotum ; sides 

 almost sinuate, the margin very narrow, and perceptible only 

 on the 1st 3rd. Clavus dull, yellow-brown, toward the apex 

 piceous ; Corium shining, the base and sometimes the anterior 

 margin yellow-brown ; Cuneus black, lustrous, with a punctured 

 coriaceous surface. Sides behind the pronotum pai^allel. 



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