138 PYBEHOCOKID.^. 



head beneath, rostrum, and lateral mai'ginal spots to sternum and 

 abdomen piceous ; legs brovvnish-ochraceous, tibiae and tarsi 

 paler ; apex of rostrum sanguineous ; apex of second joint and 

 the third and fourth joints of antennae piceous ; membrane absent; 

 apices of corium obliquely truncate and about reaching the anterior 

 margin of penultimate abdominal segment ; pronotum and corium 

 finely punctate. 



Length 8 millim. 



Hah. Sind {Coll. Dist.). 



878. Scantius obscurus, Bist. Tr. E. S. 1901, p. 589. 



Dark piceous, unicolorous, a little paler or dark castaneous 

 beneath ; above thickly but very finely punctate ; prouotum with 

 a broad central ridge on anterior disk, its lateral margins slightly 

 reflexed ; antennae robust, first and second joints longest and 

 subequal in length, third a little shorter than fourth ; membrane 

 absent ; apex of corium not quite reaching the anterior margin of 

 penultimate abdominal segments. 



Length 7 millim. 



Hah. Ceylon {Coll. Dist.). 



Genus DYSDERCUS. 



Dysdercus, Amy. ^ Serv. Hem. p. 272 (1843) ; StSl, Hem. Afr. p. 13 



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

 Astemma, Laporte, Ess. Hem. p. 37 (1832). 

 Subg. Piezodera, Sign. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1860, p. 953. 



Type, D. cinr/ulatus, Fabr. 



Distribution. Nearctic, Neotropical, Eastern Palaearctic, Ethiopian, 

 Oriental, and Australasian Regions. 



Body oblong or subelongate ; head immersed to eyes, which are 

 sessile ; antennae with the first joint longer than the second ; 

 rostrum of variable length, first joint a little longer than the head ; 

 pronotum with the lateral margins moderately ampliated and 

 reflexed ; hemelytra complete, membrane with two distinct basal 

 cells, the veins long ; ventral incisures straight ; anterior femora 

 slenderly spined beneath near apex. 



A. Anterior jii'o natal callosity black or red. 



879. Dysdercus cingulatus, Fabr. (Cimex) Syst. Ent. p. 719 (1775) ; 



id. (Lygasus) Ent. Syst. iv, p. 153 (1794). 

 Cimex superstitiosus, Tlmnh. Nov. Ins. Sji, iii, p. 55, f. 66 (1784), 



excl. syn. 

 Cimex koenigii, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 720 (1775). 

 Astemma koeningii, Blanch. Hist, des Lis. p. 128, pi. iv, f. 8 (1840). 



Ochraceous ; head, rostrum, anterior transverse callosity and 



