ACANTIIOr.UACHVS. 



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its lateral margins rouudly sinuate, posterior lobe broadly ridged at 

 base ; siaitellum foveately impressed on disk ; corium moderately 

 ampliatelv rounded near middle; membrane slightly passing 



Fig. 120. — Nabix 77ins>'oo)-icnsis, 



the abdominal apex : abdomen beneath thickly, finely, greyishly 

 sericeous. 



Length $ 9 millim. 



Hab. N.W. India ; Mussoorie. 



This species appertains to the subgenus JS)?afs,'Hahn, and is 

 allied to the South- African N. (JEptus) hottentota, Eeut. 



Genus ACANTHOBRACHYS to replace LoricMus. 

 (Vol. II, p. 402.) 



Acauthobracbvs, Fieh. Eur. Hem. p. 43 (1861) ; Bredd. Mitt. Nat. 



Mus. Hamb. xxii, (2) p. 14r) (1905). 

 Arbela, Stal, Hem. Afr. iii, pp. 38-42 (ISGo) : Eeid. Mem. Soc. E)d. 



Belli. XT, p. 12o (1908). 

 Loriciiius, Dht. (vol. ii, p. 402). 



Breddin (s»j>rrt) pointed out the identity of the above genera. 

 Eeuter has advocated the substitution of the later name 

 Arbela, Stal, because Fieber, who described liis genus Acantho- 

 bracJiys in his ' Die europiiiscben Hemiptera,' stating in a foot- 

 note it was "exotisch," had neither given nor described a 

 representative species. This certainly is a practice to be deplored, 

 but Stal himself verv considerably pursued that practice in his 

 ' Hemiptera Africanaj' where genera without types are frequently 



