ARTEMIDORUS. 



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742. Malcus flavidipes, Stdl, Free/. Bug. Resa.Ins. Hem. p. 242, pi iii 

 f. 2 (-1859). 



Castaneous ; apical angles of 

 corium fuscous ; membrane pale 

 fuliginous, the veins and some 

 irregular spots fuscous ; legs stra- 

 mineous : body beneath fuscous or 

 castaneous ; antennae castaneous, 

 the second and third joints stra- 

 mineous ; corium coarsely punctate, 

 pronotum granulate. 



Length 3| to 4 millim. 



Hah. Assam ; Margherita. 

 Burma; Karennee {Fea). Tenas- 

 serim ; Myitta {Doherty). — Java. 



743. Malcus scutellatus, Bid. A. M. 

 N. H. (7) viii, p. 472 (1901). 



Fig. 22.— Malcus flavidipes. Ochraceous, coarsely brovvnly 



punctate, the corium paler and 

 almost impunctate on basal disk and lateral margin ; scutellum 

 brownish, with a prominent, pale, ochraceous, levigate spot near 

 each basal angle ; membrane greyish, clouded with fuscous and 

 with the veins fuscous ; legs and antennte very pale ochraceous, 

 the last with the basal joint castaneous and the apical joint 

 fuscous. 



A species to be differentiated from 21. Jlavidipes, Stal, by 

 the prominent ochraceous angular spots to the scutellum ; the 

 pronotum is also more tumid posteriorly. 



Length 3 to 4 millim. 



Hah. Assam ; Margherita, Shillong. Sikhim ; Kurseong. Ceylon 

 (^Lewis), 



Genus ARTEMIDOKUS. 



Artemidorus, Dist. A. M. N. H. (7) xi. p. 73 (1903). 



Type, A. pressus, Dist. 



Distribution. Oriental Region. 



Elongate ; abdomen concavely narrowed near middle. Head 

 bi'oad, convexly narrowed in front of eyes, central lobe prominent 

 and > lightly produced; antennae with the first joint almost as 

 long as the head and moderately iucrassate at apex, second joint 

 slightly longer than third or fourth, all longer than first ; rostrum 

 just passing the anterior coxae, first joint shorter than head, 

 second longest, ocelli close to posterior margin, nearer to eyes than 

 to each other ; pronotum elongate, strongly laterally sinuate, 

 transverse constriction distinct, anterior lobe not prominently 

 globose, posterior lobe deflected anteriorly, lateral angles rounded, 

 their posterior margins slightly lobately produced ; scutellum 



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