HELEOCORIS. 



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oehraceous, irregularly ispeckled and fasciated with black, the 

 lateral margins pale ocliraceous, distinctly subampliate and in a 

 line with the lateral margins of the head, the posterior margin a 

 little paler than the disk and finely spotted with black ; sciitellum 

 black, its apex oehraceous ; hemelytra black, lateral margin of 

 cerium pale oehraceous from the base nearly to middle, the black 



Fig. 183. — Heleocaris viciuus. 



coloration encroaching on it in the form of two macular suffusions ; 

 membrane black, scarcely extending beyond the abdominal apex ; 

 connexivum pale oehraceous with the posterior segmental margins 

 black ; body beneath and legs pale oehraceous, the inner margins 

 of the tibiae, especially of the posterior tibiae, black ; as seen 

 beneath, the margin of the head between the eyes is black ; 

 posterior tibiae somewhat longly spinulose. 



Length 9 to 10 millim. 



Hub. W. Bengal ; Maubhum {Halloives), Arabanga (Fennor). 

 Travancore : Temalai, W. Ghats {Annandale). 



Montandon's type is here figured. 



3099. Heleocoris bengalensis, Montand. Bull. Soc. Sd Bucarest, 

 xix, p. 653 (1910). 



Somewhat closely resembling the preceding species, H. vicinus, 



Fig. 184. — Heleocoris bengalensis. 



in general appearance, but with the head longer, not twice as 



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