14 



LYG.MD^. 



brown band on each side of each segment, the apex black or 

 dark brown ; sternum red, punctured, with the edges of the 

 segments testaceous ; femora pale testaceous at the base, dark 

 brown at the apex ; tibite and tarsi bro\^nish ; rostrum black ; 

 antennaj dark brown or blackish, with a whitish ring at the apex 

 of each of the first three joints." (Dallas.) 



Length 4 millim. 



Hab. India ( Wooley's Coll., Brit. ]\his.). Burma : Karennee (Fea). 



Genus PYRRHOBAPHUS. 



Pvrrhobaplius, Stal, Hem. Fabr. i. p. 73 (1868) ; id. En. Hem. p. 99 



'(1874). 



Type, P. leucurus, Fabr. 



Distribution. Oriental, Malayan, and Austraksian Regions. 



Antennae long, moderately robust, second and fourth joints 

 longest ; rostrum long, passing the posterior coxae, the first joint 

 almost extending to the anterior coxae : prouotum with a partially 

 obsolete central carina, basal margin straight ; scutellum apically 

 centrally carinate ; metasternum posteriorly obliquely subsinnately 

 truncate, its posterior angles acutely rounded : femora unarmed. 



709. Pyrrhobaphus leucurus, Fabr. (Cimex) 3Iant.\i, p. 299 (1787) ; 

 ill. (Lygteus) Ent. Syst. iv, p. 154 (1794) ; Dall. (Lygajus) List 

 Hem. \\, p. 535 (1852) ; StSI, Hevi. Fabr. i, p. 73 (1868) ; Dist. 

 A. M. N. H. (7) ix, p. 45 (1902). 

 Melamphaus ruhidus, Walh. Cat. Het. vi, p. 14 (1873). 

 Var. tyraniuis, Bredcl. Mitt. Nut. Mus. Hamb. xvi, p. 173, t. ii, f. 6 

 (1899). 



Black : base of first joint of 

 antennae, head, posterior latera 

 areas of pronotum, and the corium 

 dark sanguineous ; basal angle 

 and apical margin of membrane 

 greyish white ; posterior lateral 

 areas of prosternum and meta- 

 sternum, lateral areas of head 

 beneath, and lateral abdominal 

 margins sanguineous. 



Var. Head almost or wholly 

 black. 



Length 14 to 15 millim. 



Hah. Trivandrum {Coll. Dist.). 



Ceylon (Thwaites). ■ — Scattered 



throughout the islands of the 



Malayan Archipelago ; found in 



common in New Hebrides {Coll. 



Fig. 8. — Pi/}-rhoha2)Jncs leucurus. 



some of the Pacific Islands 

 Dist.). 



