110 PYKKHOCOEIDjE. 



beneath, and lateral margins of prosternum luteous ; antennae, 

 transverse impressions to pronotum, scutellum, clavus, membrane, 

 and margins of sternal and abdominal segments black or piceous ; 

 antennae with the base of first joint reddish, fourth joint pale 

 luteous, its apex fuscous, first joint a little longer than the 

 second. 



Yar. a. A spot at base of head and the ground-colour of body 

 above and beneath piceous ; margins of prosternum, posterior 

 margin of metasternum, and abdominal segmental margins ochra- 

 ceous ; basal joint of antennae sanguineous beneath, femoral bases 

 piceous. 



Length 17 to 23 millim. 



Hah. Ceylon {Green). 



C. Second joint of antennce a little longer than first. 

 862. Odontopus sanguinolens, Amy. ^' Serv. Hem. p. 271 (1843). 



Sanguineous: second and third joints of antennae, scutellum, 

 clavus (sometimes only its inner area), membrane, and stei'ual and 

 abdominal incisures black ; fourth joint of antennae luteous, its 

 apex fuscous, second joint a little longer than the first. 



Length 17 to 19 millim. 



Hah. Madras. Trivandrum (5ri<. il/«s.). Pondichery ( Tleiina 

 Mu.s.). 



Genus DINDYMUS. 



Dindymus, Stdl, Of v. Vet.-Ak. Fork. 1861, p. 196: id. En. Hem. '\, 

 p. 103 (1870). 



Type, D. hicolor, Herr.-Sch., a Javan species. 



Distribution. Ethiopian, Oriental, and Australasian Regions. 



Eyes sessile ; head convex ; the incisures of the third and 

 fourth abdominal segments moderately curved laterally ; odori- 

 ferous sulcations distinct, their margins callous ; lateral prouotal 

 margins strongly reflexed. 



A. Pronotum and hemelytra hroadly suhovate. 



863. Dindymus lanius, StM, Berl. ent. Zeitschr. vii, p. 401 (1863). 



Diudymus tlivoneus, Kirk. 8f Edw. Wien. ent. Zeit. xxi, p. 170, 

 t. iii, f. 9 (1902). 



Sanguineous ; apex of second joint and the whole of third and 

 fourth joints of antennae, rostrum, excluding basal and base of 

 second joints, basal margin of scutellum, a large discal spot to mem- 

 brane, sternum, base of abdomen, and legs black ; lateral margins 

 of prosternum sanguineous ; sternal incisures and the membrane 

 obscure ochraceous : anterior area of pronotum defined by coarse 



