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LYG^ID^. 



piceous, with an arcuated fascia near base and the apical margiu 

 white. Antennae with the second and fourth joints longest ; 

 third a little longer than first. 



Length 7 millim. 



Hah. North Bengal (Camj)beU, Brit. 3Ius.). 



705. Aspilocoryphus mendicus, Fabr. (Cimex) Sijst. Ent. p. 720 

 (1775) : id. (Ciniex) Ma7it. ii, p. 300 (1787) ; Stal (Lvg^us), 

 Hem. Fahr. \, p. 74 (1868). 



I have not seen this species ; Stal has thus described it : — 



Testaceous, remotely greyisbly sericeous ; central lobe and a large 

 spot at base of head, antennae, rostrum, four large spots arranged 

 in two series to pronotum, scutellura, membrane, a large spot on 

 each lateral area of the sternal segments, a small spot in the 

 basal angles of all the abdominal segments, and an abbreviated 

 apical fascia to the third, fourth, and fifth segments, the anal 

 appendage and sixth segment, and legs black ; a small shining 

 black spot to the sternum " subbasali media laterum partium " : 

 two small obscure spots and apical central carina to scutellum 

 testaceous ; an anterior fascia internally abbreviated, and the 

 apical margin to membrane, white ; the first joint of rostrum 

 produced a little beyond base of head. 



Length, § , 7 millim. 



Hnh. " Lidia Orientalis. Dom, Daldorff " {Copenhagen Mus.). 



Genus MELANOTELUS. 



Melanotelas, Heut. Hev. d'Ent. iv, jjp. 200 & 202 (1885). 



Type, M. argillaceus, Eeut., from the Mauritius. 

 Distribviion. Southern Palaearctic, Ethiopian, Oriental, and 

 Australasian Regions. 



Dr. Eeuter apparently relies on the following characters to 

 separate this genus from Graptostethus and its allies : — " Hemelytra 

 narrower than the abdomen ; abdomen testaceous or sanguineous, 

 the sixth and anal segments black ; the posterior angles of the 



metapleuroe externally strongly 

 produced," 



706. Melanotelus hipunctatus, 

 Dall. (LvgaBus) List Hem. ii, 

 p. 547 (1852) ; Reut. Rev. 

 d'Ent. iv, p. 203 (1886). 



Dull reddish, greyishly pilose ; 

 head, a spot near each basal angle 

 of the pronotum, membrane, a 

 spot on lateral area of each sternal 

 segment, and apex of abdomen 

 black : antennse, rostrum, and legs 

 piceous ; membrane with the apex, 

 spot, and a spot at apical margin of cerium white. 



Fig. 6.- 

 a basal 



-Melanotelus bipunctatus. 



