OXYCARENUS. 



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Genus OXYCARENUS. 



Oxycarenus, Fieb. Weit. Beitr. 183G, p. 339 ; id. Exit. Kem. pp. 53 

 & 205 (18G1) ; Stal, Of v. Vet.-Ak. Fork. 1872, no. 7, p. 50; id. 

 En. Hem. iv, p. 141 (1874). 



Stenogaster, Hahn, Wanz. iii, p. 15 (1835) ; Ilerr.-Sch. Wanz. ix, 

 p. 213 (1853). 



Type, 0. lavaterce, Fabr., a Palcearctic species. 



Distribntion. Palsearctic, Ethiopian, Oriental, and Australasian 

 Eegions. 



Body oblong or a little elongate ; head triangular, porrect, pro- 

 duced anteriorly in front of the antenniferous tubercles ; rostrum 

 long and slender ; pronotum trapezoidal, constricted medially ; 

 scutellum triangular, a little broader than long ; hemelytra com- 

 plete, broader and longer than the abdomen, the lateral margins 

 straight and dilated ; legs with the femora moderately incrassated 

 and very finely spined beneath. 



755. Oxycarenus Isetus, Kirbi/, J. Linn. Soc, Zool. xxiv, p. 102 

 (1891). 



Head, antennae, pronotum, scutellum, body beneath, and legs 



piceous ; corium very pale stra- 

 mineous, with a small piceous 

 spot at apical angle ; membrane 

 pale greyish hyaline ; intermedi- 

 ate and posterior tibiae pale stra- 

 mineous, their bases and apices 

 piceous ; tarsi sti'amineous, their 

 apices piceous ; acetabula and 

 posterior margin of metasternum 

 stramineous ; anterior femora 

 distinctly spined beneath. 

 Length 4 millim. 

 Hah. Calcutta. Bombay(i)?\ro?i). 

 Ceylon (G>-em). Burma; Man- 

 dalay {Fed). 



frequents the seed-capsules of Ahutilon asiaticum in Ceylon 

 (Green). Collected on the capsules of the cotton-plant Oossypium 

 stocksii at Bombay {Dixon). 



Fig. 31. — Oxycarenus latus. 



756. Oxycarenus proximus, Walk. (Anthocoris) Cat. Het. v, p. 152 

 (1872) ; List. A. M. X, H. (7j viii, p. 475 (1901). 



Head, anterior lobe of pronotum, and scutellum black ; posterior 

 pronotal lobe and clavus piceous or castaneoua ; corium piceous, 

 with about basal third white : membrane pale bronzy-brown, the 

 basal margin and inner angle somewhat broadly white : body 



