100 PYEEHOCORID^. 



«'-. Head with eyes broader than anterior 

 margin of pronotum ; eyes pedun- 

 culate ECTATOPS, p. 102. 



b'-. Head with eyes not broader than 

 anterior margin of pronotum ; eyes 



not pedunculate Euscopus, p. 105, 



b' . Anterior area of pronotum not or incom- 

 pletely circumscribed by continuous 

 impression or punctures. 

 a^. Incisures of third and fourth ventral 

 segments moderately laterally curved. 

 a^. Lateral margins of pronotum acute, 

 seldom reflexed. 

 a*. Eyes not touching anterior [p. 107. 



margin of pronotum Melamphaus, 



¥. Head immersed to eyes Odontopus, p. 108. 



6'. Lateral margins of pronotum 



strongly reflexed Dindymus, p. 110. 



b"^. Incisures of ventral segments straight, [p. 115. 



not distinctly curved Pyrrhopeplus, 



b. Apical angle of corium elongately acute. . . . Dysdercus, p. 118. 

 B. Hemelytra incomplete, membrane absent or 

 seldom fully developed. 



a. Head with eyes wider than anterior margin 



of pronotum Courtesius, p. 114. 



b. Head with eyes not wider than anterior 



margin of pronotum. 



a. Apical margin of corium truncate. 



a'. First joint of rostrum as long as head. . Dermatinus, p. 115. 

 b' . First joint of rostrum much shorter 



than head Scantius, p. 117. 



b. Apical margin of corium rounded Pyrrhocoris, 



[p. 116. 



Genus ANTILOCHUS. 



Antilochus, Stdl, Berl. ent. Zeitschr. vii, p. 393 (1863) ; id. Hem. 



Afr. iii, p. 4 (1865) ; id. En. Hem. i, p. 103 (1870). 

 Neoeretus, Rent. Ent. Tidskr. viii, p. 92 (1887). 



Type, A. coqueberti, Fabr. 



Distribution. Ethiopian (including Madagascai*) and Oriental 

 Regions, and extending throughout the Malay Archipelago to 

 New Guinea. 



Head longer than broad between eyes, transversely constricted 

 or impressed beneath near base, somewhat deflected, and immersed 

 to eyes, which are prominent and sessile ; antennae of moderate 

 length; rostrum short, the two apical joints almost equal to, or a 

 little shorter than, the first joint ; lateral margins of the pronotum 

 moderately laminate, but rarely distinctly reflexed ; anal segment 

 in the female large and posteriorly rounded ; legs normal, femora 

 moderately thickened, posterior tarsi with the basal joint much 

 longer than the two apical joints together. 



