SCANTIUS, 117 



streak on fifth, and the posterior margin of sixth abdominal 

 segment, and the anal segment sanguineous ; coriura with two 

 rounded spots, the smallest near base, the largest on disk, and its 

 apical margin black. 



Length 9 to 10| millim. 



Hah. Cochin {Coll. Dist.). — Lethierry and Severin in their Cata- 

 logue also give " India " as a habitat for this widely distributed 

 Palaearctie species. I have previously recorded it from Costa Eica. 



Genus SCANTIUS. 



Scantius, Stdl, Hem. Afr. iii, p. 10 (186-3) ; id. En. Hem. i, p. 103 



(1870). 



Type, S. forsteri., Fabr., an Ethiopian species. 



Distribution. Palaearctie, Ethiopian, and Oriental Regions. 



Body oblong ; eyes sessile ; antennae short and incrassate : 

 rostrum with the joints of nearly equal length, first joint shorter 

 than the head ; pronotum with the lateral margins moderately 

 acntely laminate ; hemelytra either complete or incomplete, in the 

 latter case with the membrane absent and the apex of the corium 

 truncate ; anterior femora moderately incrassate and spined 

 beneath near apices. 



876. Scantius VOlucris, Gerstceck. in V. d. Decken's Reise, iii, p. 413 



(1873). 



Piceous ; lateral margins and central Mnear spots on basal and 

 apical margins of pronotum, apex of scu- 

 tellum, basal lateral margins of corium, 

 anterior margin of prosternum and lateral 

 margins of sternum and abdomen san- 

 guineous ; coxae and disk of abdomen 

 castaueous ; first joint of antennae con- 

 siderably passing apex of head, second 

 almost as long as first, third shortest ; 

 pronotum distinctly transversely constricted 

 near middle ; membrane absent ; corium 

 reaching the anterior margin of penultimate 

 abdominal segment. 

 ^ f}^- ^^i . Length 7 millim. 



Hao. Madras (Coll. Dist.). Coonoor. — 

 Brit. East Africa and Angola (Brit. Mas.). 



877. Scantius pallens, sp. n. 



Head, antennae, pronotum, scutellum and corium testaceous ; 

 lateral and anterior margins and central fascia to pronotum, apex of 

 scutellum (broadly), and lateral margins to corium pale reddish- 

 ochraceous : abdomen above and body beneath pale sanguineous ; 

 posterior margin of sixth abdominal segment, spot on anal segment, 



