EUSCOPUS. 105 



the corium thickly punctate ; rostrum reaching the apex of the 

 second abdominal segment. 



Var. According to Stal, this species varies by sometimes having 

 the posterior lobe of the pronotum and the hemelytra more or less 

 broadly margined with, or nearly totally, reddish. 



Length 13 millim. 



Hab. India (Jide Stal). — Java. 



Species ^inlcnoivn to the W7'lter. 



851. Ectatops distincta, de Tuillefr. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1864, p. 144. 



" Pronotum entirely red ; head red above : scutellam black with 

 the extreme apex red ; membrane black, yellowish at internal basal 

 area ; body black beneath, laterally margined with red ; abdomen 

 exhibiting a reddish tint at about the middle of its disk." {de 

 VuiUefroy.) 



Length 13 millim. 



Hab. Sylhet. 



I have seen a specimen from Sylhet, belonging to the Vienna 

 Museum, which is apparently a variety of this species, having a 

 piceous transverse fascia behind the anterior pronotal callosity. 



852. Ectatops lateralis, de Vuillefr. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1864, p. 144. 



" Lateral margins of the pronotum straight, its discal impression 

 slightly approaching the anterior margin ; head produced in tri- 

 angular form. Entirely red above, corium margined with black on 

 its posterior half : membrane black ; antennse and legs red ; all 

 the under surface of the body very pale, excepting the head beneath 

 which is red ; abdomen exhibiting on its disk a large triangular 

 black spot which does not reach the base and of which the margins 

 are irregular.*' {de VuUlefroy.) 



Length 11 to 13 millim. 



Hah. Sylhet. 



Genus EUSCOPUS. 

 Euscopus, Stm, En. Hem. i, pp. 102 & 106 (1870). 



Type, E. ntjipes, StSl. 



Distribution. Oriental Region. 



Body oblong, beneath sericeous ; head as long as broad, deflected 

 from above, modei'ately convex, equal in width to the anterior 

 margin of the pronotum ; rostrum reaching or passing the inter- 

 mediate coxae, first joint not longer than the head ; antennse short, 

 first joint longest, second and fourth equal in length ; pronotum 

 transverse, lateral margins reflexed, transverse impression distinct 

 and continuous : corium with the apical margin nearly straight ; 

 legs normal, anterior femora moderately incrassated, armed beneath 

 near apices with two small spines ; incisures to third and fourth 

 ventral segments with their apices anteriorly curved. 



