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PYBBHOCOBID.i:. 



874. Pyrrhopeplus pictus, Dist. A. M. N. H. (7) ix, p. 41 (1902). 



Pale ochraceous ; anterior area and lateral margins of pro- 



notum, scutellum, lateral margins 

 of corium, eonnexivum, lateral 

 sternal margins, coxae and femora 

 testaceous or very dark ochraceous ; 

 antennae, discal margins of central 

 lobe and basal margin of head, 

 anterior and posterior margins of 

 anterior raised area of pronotum, 

 basal margin of scutellum, a rounded 

 spot on corium near anterior angle, 

 margins of incisures to sternum and 

 abdomen, a central fascia to head 

 beneath, tibiae and tarsi black ; 

 pronotum and scutellum some- 

 what darkly punctate ; head and 



anterior transverse disk of pronotum impunctate, the last with its 



black margins thickly and coarsely punctate. 

 Length y to 11 millim, 

 Hab. 8ikhim {Coll. Dist.). Sylhet {Brit. Mus.). Shilloug, Ntiga 



Hills {BoJierty). Burma ; Xarennee (Feci). 



Fig. 84. — Pyrrimpeplus pictus. 



Genus PYRRHOCORIS. 



Pvn-hocoris, Fallen, Nov. Hem. Disp. Meth. p. 9 (1814) 



'Hem. i, pp. 10:3 & 115 (1870). 

 Platynotus, Schill. Beitr. zur Ent. i, p. 37 (1829). 

 Meganotus, Laporte, Ess. p. 38 (1832). 



Stal^ En. 



Type, P. apterus, Linn. 



Distribution. Palaearctic and Oriental Eegions ; one species, 

 perhaps introduced, received from Costa Rica. 



In this genus the apical margin of the corium is rounded and 

 the membrane seldom completely developed in the only species 



that can at present be included 

 in this fauna. 



875. Pyrrhocoris apterus, Linn. 

 (Cimex; Syst. Nat. ed. x, 1, 

 p. 447 (1758) ; Fabr. Syst. Ent. 

 p. 721 (1775); Di^t. Biol. 

 C'entr.-Am., Rhynch. i, p. 228, 

 t. xxi, f. 25 (1883) ; pro syn. 

 cf. Leth. (^- Sev. Cat. Gen. Hem. 

 t. ii, p. 249 (1894). 



Black ; margins of pronotum, 

 . coriuu), eonnexivum, sternal in- 



yri oco) IS ap erus. ^.^g^^^i-gg .^^id lateral and anterior 

 presternum, acetabula, abdominal margin, a transverse 



marg 



ig. 85.- 

 ins of 



