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LYG^ID^. 



a. Femora spined beneath. 



691. Lygaeus militaris, Fabr. (Cimex) St/st. Ent. p. 717 (1775) ; id. 



Fnt. Syst. iv, p. 147 (1794) ; pro syn. cf. Zeth. 8r Sev. Cat. Gen. 



Hem. ii, p. 144 (1894). 

 LygfBus elegaus, Woljf, Ic. iii, p. 112, f. 106 (1802). 

 Var. civilis, Fabr. (Cimex) Mant. ii, p. 298 (1787) = militaris, 



Herr.-Sch. Wanz. ix, p. 198 (1853) =lagenifer, Duf. Itech. Hem. 



pp. 45, 282, pi. iii, ft". 22-24 (1833). 

 Far. surinamensis, Wolff, Ic. iii, p. Ill, f. 105 (1802). 

 Far. asiaticus, Kolenati, Melet. Ent. ii, p. 72, pi. viii, f. 12 (1845). 



Pale sanguineous ; apex of bead and a spot at inner margins of 

 eyes, antennse, rostrum, pronotum (with the central anterior 

 margin connected with two long arcuated fasciae reaching posterior 

 margin near lateral angles), scutellum, a small spot near apex of 

 clavus, a transverse fascia (sometimes abbreviated) to corium, pro- 

 sternum, margins of meso- and metasterna, abdominal segmental 

 margins and stigmatal spots, and the legs black ; membrane pale 

 brownish-ochraceous, some of the basal veins black, and usually 

 with a white spot at base, and two, sometimes coalescing, about 

 middle, femora distinctly spined beneath ; rostrum reaching the 

 intermediate cox«. 



A very variable species throughout its \Aide distribution ; the 

 pronotum has usually two large obscure ochraceous spots on basal 

 area, while the membrane is also highly variable in hue, but seems 

 constant, as described above, in the Oriental examples. 



Length 13 to 10 millim. 



Hah. Punjab; Murree (Stoliczka) ; Hardwar (Tf^ood-IIason) ; 

 Bombay (Leith cf- Dixon); Bangalore (Cameron). Mysore (CoZ?. 

 Hist.). Burma; Mandalay (Fea), Minhla (Comotto). — Pound in 

 the Malay Archipelago and Australia (Queensland, CoU. Dist.) ; 

 a common Palaearctic species and abundant in South Africa. 



b. Femora unarmed. 



692. Lygaeus hospes, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iv, p. 160 (1794) ; id. Syst. 



Ithyng. p. 219 (1803); Stal, Hem. 

 Afr. ii, p. 136 nota (1865). 

 Lya-feiis affinis, Wolff, Ic. iii, p. 110, 



f. 104 (1802). 

 Lvgseus lanio, Ilerr.-Sch. Wanz. vii, 

 'p. 21, f. 705 (1844), et ix, p. 197 

 (1853). 

 Lvgseus squalidus, Montr. (§• Siqn. Ann. 

 "Soc. Ent. Fr. 1861, p. 66. 

 Far. faruiliaris, Fabr. (pro parte") Spec. 

 Ins. ii, p. 363 (1781). 



Pale sanguineous ; apex of head 

 and a spot at inner margins of 

 eyes, antennae, rostrum, two broad 

 central discal fasciae to pronotum 

 (narrowed anteriorly and connected with an anterior marginal 



Fig. 3. — LygcBus hospes. 



