102 



PYEEHOCOKID^. 



B. Lateral margins of the pronotimi distinctly rejtexed. 



843. Antilochus nigripes, Burm. (Pyrrliocoris) Handb. ii, 1, p. 284 



(1835) ; Stal, Berl. ent. Zeitschr. vii, p. 394 (1863). 

 Physopelta rubricosus, Stdl, Of v. Vet.-Ak. Forh. 1854, p. 236. 



Sanguineous ; antennae, membrane, rostrum and legs black ; 

 base of fourth joint of antenna3, internal angle and apical margin 

 of membrane pale ocbraceous ; pronotum punctate, excluding 

 discal anterior area, the punctures surrounding which are con- 

 colorous : corium somewhat thickly punctate ; lateral margins of 

 pronotum distinctly reflexed. 



Length 15 to KJ millim. 



Hah. Assam ; Klitisi Hills (Chennell). Ceylon ; Peradeniya 

 (Green). Tenasserim ; Thagata, Mt. Mooleyit (i'lga). — Found in 

 several islands of the Malay Archipelago ; Sumatra (Forbes). 

 Philippines (vide Stdl). Also recorded from China. 



844. Antilochus pygmseiis, sp. n. 



Sanguineous ; autennte, eyes, basal margin of scutellum, and 

 membi'ane black ; legs and rostrum fuscous, bases of femora and 

 base of first joint of antennae, inner angle and apical margin of 

 membrane ochraceous ; abdomen beneath somewhat suffused with 

 piceous on apical ai'ea ; head very acuminate anteriorly ; pronotum 

 with the lateral margins distinctly retlexed ; pronotum and corium 

 punctured as in preceding species (A. nigripes). 



Length 10 millim. 



Hah. Ceylon; Kandy (&V<2«ji), 



845. Antiloclms lineatipes, Stdl (Odontopus), Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Fork. 



1858, p. 441 ; Dohrn (Djsdercus), Stett. ent. Zeit. xxi, p. 405 

 (1860). 



Black ; lateral margins of pronotum (widest posteriorly), corium, 

 lateral margins of prosternum, posterior margin of metasternum, 

 and abdomen beneath sanguineous ; corium with the clavus and a 

 large transverse spot near inner angle blaciv ; abdomen beneath 

 with a large transverse elongate black spot on each lateral area of 

 the incisures : fourth joint of antennae obscui-ely ochraceous at 

 base ; pronotum with the lateral margins distinctly reflexed, 

 posterior area only sparsely punctate. 



Var. The sanguineous coloration replaced by ochraceous. 



Length 21 to 23 millim. 



Hah. Trivandrum. Ceylon; 'Kjojixdy (Green). 



Genus ECTATOPS. 



Ectatops, Amy. et Serv Hem. p. 273 (1843) ; Stdl, En. Hem. i, p. 102 

 (1870). 



Type, E. Hmhaia, Amy. & Serv. 



Distribution. Oriental Region ; extending throughout the Malay 

 Archipelago to New Guinea. 



