PYREHOPEPLUS. 



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Genus DERMATINUS. 



Dermatinus, Stal, Of v. Vet.-Ak. Fork. 1853, p. 260 ; id. Hem. Afr. 

 iii, p. 12 (1865) ; id. En. Hem. \, p. 103 (1870). 



Type, D. limbifer, Stal, a South-African species. 



Distribution. Ethiopian and Oriental Eegions ; one species 

 recorded from China. 



Body narrowly ovate ; head immersed to eyes which are sessile ; 

 antennae with the first joint shorter than the head, second joint 

 longer than first, third shortest ; pronotum transverse, trapezoidal, 

 lateral margins narrowly laminately carinate ; heraelytra abbrevi- 

 ated, apices truncate, membrane absent, clavus moderately well 

 defined ; legs normal. 



873. Dermatiniis lugnbris, sp. n. 



Piceous ; apex of scutellum ob- 

 scurely ochraceous ; head, pronotum, 

 and cerium finely granulate ; apices 

 of corium straightly truncate ; an- 

 tennae setose, second and fourth 

 joints longest and subequal in length ; 

 rostrum brownish - piceous, about 

 reaching the posterior coxae ; lateral 

 margins of pronotum anteriorly 

 somewhat btrongly reflexed; coxae, 

 trochanters, bases of femora, and in 

 a second specimen the tibiae and 

 tarsi, brownish-ochraceous. 

 Length 6 millim. 

 Madras : Pondichery ( Vienna Jlnsetim). 



— Bermatinus lugubris. 



Genus PYRRHOPEPLUS. 



Pyrrhopeplus, StSl, En. Hem. i, pp. 103 e^' 115 (1870). 



Type, P. carduelis, Stal, from China and Tibet. 



Distribution. Eastern Palaearctic and Oriental Eegions. 



Body subelongate ; head ^\'ith eyes equal in width to anterior 

 margin of pronotum ; eyes small, sessile ; antennae a third part 

 shorter than body, first joint a little longer than the second, third 

 shortest ; rostrum reaching the posterior coxae ; pronotum trans- 

 verse, a little narrowed anteriorly, lateral margins laminate and 

 reflexed, anterior transverse impressions profound, laterally obso- 

 letely punctately connected ; hemelytra complete ; legs normal, 

 anterior femora moderately incrassated and spined beneath near 

 apices. 



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