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LYG-.EID.Ti. 



Genus C^NOCORIS. 



C^nocoris, Fieh. Etir. Hem. pp. 44 & 166 (1861) ; St8.l, Of v. Vet.-Ak. 

 Fork. 1872, n. 7, p. 43; id. En. Hem. iv, p. 99 (1874). 



Type, C. nerii. Germ. 



Distribution. Palsearctic, Ethiopian, Oriental, and Australasian 

 Regions. 



Allied to the preceding genus (Arocaius), but differing by having 

 the fourth joint of the antennae distinctly longer than the second ; 

 the other distinguishing characters are of secondary importance. 



In distribution Ccenocoris, unlike Arocaius, is only represented 

 in the Palaearctic Eegion, and is an Oriental genus, recorded also 

 from the Ethiopian and Australasian Eegions. 



'12. Csenocoris nerii, Genu, (hy o:iBUs)F(mn. Ins. Furop. i^. 24 (1817); 

 Fieb. Em: Hem. p. 166 "'(1861); Pidon, Spiopsis, 1878, p. 13; 

 Dist. A. M. N. H. (7) vii, p. 539 (1901). 

 Lygseus semirubes, Walk. Cat. Het. v, p. 58, u. 147 (1872). 



Piceous ; lateral areas of 

 head at the regions of the 

 eyes, lateral angles of the 

 pi'onotum, apex of scutellum, 

 l3asal angles and inner and 

 apical margins of corium, 

 and body beneath sanguine- 

 ous ; large lateral spots to 

 each sternal segment and a 

 double series of discal spots 

 to abdomen black ; body, 

 legs, and antennae pilose ; 

 membrane black, its apical 

 margin pale fuliginous. 

 Length 7k to 9 millim. 

 Hah. iSind {Coll. Dist.). 

 Hindostan" (Brit. Mns.) — A \vell-kno^vn Palaearctic species. 



Fig. 10. — CcBuocoris nerii. 



713. Caenocoris marginatus, TMmb. (Alydus) Hem. rostr. Cajj. iii, 

 p. 3 (1822) ; StcV. (Tetralaceus), Eerl. ent. Zeitschr. x, p. 163 

 (1866) ; id. En. Hem. iv, p. 116 (1874). 

 Csenocoris dudgeoni, Kirh. Wien. ent. Zeit. xxii, p. 17 (1903). 



Sanguineous, gi-eyishly pilose ; antennae, rostrum, a spot at base 

 of head (sometimes occupying the whole central area), disk of 

 pronotum, scutellum (excepting apex), clavus, and sometimes the 

 whole of corium (excepting lateral margin), body beneath, and 

 legs piceous ; lateral margins of sternum and abdomen and some- 

 times transverse fasciae to abdominal segments sanguineous ; 

 membrane violaceous-black, the apical margin pale hyaline. 



Var. Legs testaceous ; abdomen beneath pale sanguineous, its 

 apical area infuscated. 



