IPHICEATES. 



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Genus ISCHNODEMUS. 



Isclmodemus, Fieh. in Weit. Beitr. 1836, p. 337 ; id. Europ. Hem. 



pp. 44 & 163 (1861) ; Stdl, En. Hem. iv, p. 129 (1874). 

 Micropus, Spin. Ess. p. 218 (1840) ; Sic/n. (part.) Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 



18o7, p. 24. 

 Blissus (part.) Stdl, Hem. Afr. ii, p. 122 (1865). 



Type, /. sabuleti, EalL, a Palaearctic species. 



Distribution. Almost universally distributed. 



Principally differs from Macropes by the unarmed and more 

 slender femora, the anterior femora being rarely very finely 

 spinous, the body is more slender and elongate, and the apical 

 margin of the corium is straight. 



Fig. 18. 



Isclmodemus noctidus. 



732. Isclmodemus noctulus, Dist. A. M. N. H. (7) viii, p. 468 (1901). 



Head, antennae, prouotum, scutellum, 

 membrane, and body beneath black; 

 legs piceous, apices of femora, the inter- 

 mediate and posterior tibiae Cexcluding 

 bases), and the tarsi ochraceous ; corium 

 piceous, its margins and an obscure 

 spot at inner angle pale brownish-grey ; 

 membrane with a waved fascia near 

 base and a subapical spot brownish- 

 grey ; antennae with the second joint a 

 little longer tnan the third, fourth long 

 and moderately clavate : body finely 

 and obscurely pilose above, much more 

 distinctly so beneath. 

 Length 5| millim. 

 Hah. Ceylon (Leivis cf Green). 



Injurious to foliage of Mysore Cardamon plant. The irritation 

 caused by the punctures of the insects causes the leaves to roll up 

 longitudinally, under which cover the bugs live and breed. 

 (^Qreen.) 



Genus IPHICEATES, nov. 



Type, I. spinicajmt, Scott, a Japanese species. 



Distribution. Ceylon, Japan. 



Allied to Isclmodemus, but differing by having the head spined 

 on each side in front of eyes, head rather large, the lateral lobes 

 spinously produced a little up\vardly and in front of central lobe, 

 their apices well separated; in the male there is also a long apical 

 bifurcating process, absent in the female, in which sex the lateral 

 lobes are less upwardly spinous. 



