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LYG.lilDyi:. 



733. Iphicrates subauratus, Dist. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. 1903, p. 44. 



Ochraceous ; head, anterior lobe 

 of prouotum, scutellum (excluding 

 apex), and sternum black ; anterior 

 process to head in male, rostrum, 

 posterior angles to prosternum, lateral 

 margins of meso- and metasterna, 

 luteous ; antennse piceous or very 

 dark castaneous ; anterior lobe of 

 pronotum sparingly, posterior lobe 

 thickly and coarsely punctate ; mem- 

 brane reaching the penultimate abdo- 

 minal segment ; anterior femora 

 thickened and spined beneath ; an- 

 tennae with the first and third and the 

 second and fourth joints subequal in 

 leneth. " 



Fig. 19. 



Iphicrates subauraitis, cj • 



Length 5 to 5 1 millim. 



Hah. Ceylon ; Pundaluoya ( Green'). 



Genus BLISSUS. 



Blissiis, Kluq, Symh. Phys. v, pi. xliii, f. 10 (1845) ; Burm. B 

 ii, 1, p. 1^90 (1836) ; Stdl, Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Fork. 1872, no. 7, p. 



Type, B. Mrtulus, Klug, a southern Palfearctic species. 



Handh. 

 45. 



Distribution. Palaearctic, Nearctic, Neotropical, Ethiopian, and 

 Oriental Eegions. 



Body less elongate and more oval than in the preceding genera ; 

 apical margin of tlie corium sinuate near the apex of the clavus. 



734. BlisSUS gibbus, Fabr. (Acanthia) Fnt. Si/st. iv, p. 75 (1794) ; id. 

 (Coreiis) S'l/xf. BhytH/.-p. 202 (1803) ; Stal, Hein. Fahr. i, p. 69 



(1868). 



Black ; corium very pale ochrace- 

 ous, with a large black spot at apical 

 angles ; membrane greyish-white ; 

 antennse and legs piceous, tibiae 

 and tarsi and the apices of femora 

 ochraceous ; posterior lobe of pro- 

 notum coarsely punctate. Mem- 

 brane in fully-developed specimens 

 about reaching the apex of the 

 abdomen. 



Length 4^ millim. 



Hah. Bombay; Bor Ghat(Z)«.i'0»). 

 Cawnpore. 



We have here figured theCjmmar-' 



ture J. form, because it is in that 



more destructive insert, In recent years the late 



U 



Fig. 20. — Blissus gihbus. 

 Immature form. 



.•ondition a 



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