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LYG.i;iD^. 



Genus CLIGENES. 



Cligenes, Dist. Biol. C'entr.-Amer,, Hhi/tich. i, p. 405 (1893) ; Bergr. 



Rev. cVEnt. xiv, p. 142 (1895). 

 Salacia, Stal, En. Hem. \\, p. 156 (1874), nom. pr^occ. 



Type, O. diluticornis, Stal, a Brazilian species. 



Distribution. Neotropical, Nearctic, Oriental, Ethiopian, and 

 Australasian Regions. 



Head of ordinary size, antennae inserted near the eyes, basal 

 joint passing the apex of the head ; basal joint of rostrum not 

 longer than basal joint of antennae ; pronotum short, transverse, 

 base broad, nearly twice as broad as head including eyes, near or 

 behind middle obsoletely transversely impressed, lateral margins 

 near middle slightly sinuated ; scutellum not, or a little, longer 

 than broad ; corium with the apical margin straight or profoundly 

 sinuate. 



a. Pronotum ivith the transverse impression nearer to the posterior 

 than to the anterior margin. 



798. Cligenes signandus, Dist. (Salacia) Ann, Soc. Ent. Bely. 1903, 

 p. 46. 



Stramineous ; anterior lobe of pronotum and scutellum (excluding 



apex) castaneous ; head piceous, 

 greyishly pilose ; a spot at lateral 

 angles of pronotum, a spot at centre 

 of lateral mai'gin to corium and the 

 apical angle of same black ; mem- 

 brane pale fuscous, the margins pale 

 stramineous : body beneath castane- 

 ous, legs pale luteous ; antennae 

 brownish ochraceous, apices of the 

 joints luteous ; posterior pronotal 

 lobe and the corium sparingly but 

 coarsely punctate ; apical margin of 

 corium straight. 



Length 21 millim. 



Hah. Ceylon {Green). 



Fig. 55. — Cligenes signandus. 



799. Cligenes patricius, sp. u. 



Head and posterior lobe of pronotum castaneous ; anterior 

 pronotal lobe ochraceous with a central longitudinal castaneous 

 fascia ; scutellum piceous, its apex luteous ; corium very pale 

 stramineous, its apical angle fuscous, and with a small somewhat 

 obsolete fuscous spot at about centre of lateral margin ; membrane 

 fuliginous, its margins very pale stramineous : body beneath 

 piceous ; legs stramineous ; antennae with the basal joint ochraceous, 

 remaining joints brownish ochraceous, first and third, and second 



