AROC'ATUS. 



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Genus AROCATUS. 

 Arocatus, Spin. Ess. p. 257 (1840) ; Fieh. Eur. Hem. pp. 45 & 167 



(1861) ; Stdl, Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Fdrh. 1872, n. 7, p. 42 ; id. En. Hem. 



iv, p. 99 (1874). 

 Tetralaccus, Fieb. Eur. Hem. p. 44 (1861). 



Type, A. melanocepludus, Fabr., a Palaearctic species. 



Distribution. Palsearctic, Ethiopiau, Oriental, and Australasian 

 Regions. 



Posterior margins of eyes somewhat widely separated from the 

 anterior pronotal angles ; head moderately tumescent ; pronotum 

 punctate; second and fourth joints of the antennee subequal in 

 length, or fourth a little shorter than the second ; body elongate. 



A Palaearctie genus, represented in the Ethiopian, Oriental, and 

 Australasian Regions. 



710. Arocatus pilosulus, Dist. Tr. E. S. 1879, p. 123 ; id. Sec Yark. 

 3Iiss., Rki/nch. p. 9, fig. 5 (1879). 



Testaceous, pilose ; head with the central portion black ; 



antenna? black, pilose, second joint 

 rather longest, third and fourth 

 joints subequal in length ; rostrum 

 piceous ; pronotum obscurely punc- 

 tured, distinctly rugulose ou pos- 

 terior area, anterior lobe with a 

 transverse black fascia and a similar 

 bat more obscure basal fascia ; 

 scutellum piceous, the apex red, 

 and with two large basal fovese ; 

 membrane piceous, opaque, its apical 

 margin greyish ; body beneath tes- 

 taceous, suffused with piceous ; a 

 black lateral spot on each sternal 

 segment ; legs piceous, pilose. 



Fig. 9. — Arocatus pilosulus. 



Length 6 raillim. 



Hab. Punjab ; Murree (StoUczlri). 



711. Arocatus sericans, StS/ (Lygaeus), Freff. Euc/. liesa, Ins. Hem. 

 p. 240 (1859); id. En. Hem^w, p. 116 (1874). 



Black ; margins of head (excluding extreme apex), anterior and 

 lateral margins and a central fascia to pronotum, central fascia to 

 scutellum, basal lateral margins to coriiun, connexivum, head 

 beneath, lateral margins of sternum and abdomen, and transverse 

 segmental suffusions to sternum and abdomen sanguineous ; a 

 piceous lateral spot on each sternal segment ; body finely pilose ; 

 pronotum posteriorly distinctly punctured ; membrane piceous, 

 its apical margin pale fiiliginous. 



Length 7 to 8 millim. 



Hab. Pondicherry {Coll. Signoret). — China ; Japan (Leivis). 



