OARCINOCORIS. 151 



Genus OARCINOCORIS. 



Carcinocoris, Handl. Ann. Hofmus. Wien, xii, p. 219 (1897). 



Type, C. castetsi, Handl. 



Distrihxitlon. Oriental and Papuan Regions. 



Head long, spinous, postocular area much longer than ante- 

 ocular ; scutellum long, sometimes nearly as long as the abdomen, 

 its raai'gins and a central carination more or less spinous ; abdomen 

 more or less dilated, longer than broad, but never twice as long as 

 broad ; margins of prouotum and abdomen largely spiuose ; legs 

 spinose, intermediate and posterior legs more strongly so. 



A. ScuteUum loitli the lateral inargins parallel, not narroived at apex. 



a. Abdomen dilated, its margin angidate. 



92.5. Carcinocoris hampsoni, Bist. A. M. N. H. (7) Lx, p. 3.57 (1902). 



Somewhat intermediate between C. castetsi, Handl., and C. eri- 

 naceus, Handl. Scutellum long and 

 slender, as in C. erinaceus, but with the 

 lateral margins straight, not sinuate ; 

 abdominal margins expanded and angu- 

 late, as in O. castetsi, Handl., but all 

 the marginal spines, both to it and 

 the pronotum, much less robust. 



Ochraceous ; apex of corium, mem- 

 brane, and a transverse central fascia 

 to abdominal dilatations umber-brown ; 

 scutellum almost reaching apex of abdo- 

 men, its lateral margins longly spinous, 



• ^'S-.-'^P- . but much less so on basal area. 



Carcinocoris hampsoni. -^ .1011. ^^^ ~ -n- 



Length 8^ ; breadth o millim. 



Hah. Nilgiri Hills {Hampson) ; Ootacamuud (AtJcinson Coll., 



Brit. Mils.). 



h. Abdomen dilated, its margins rounded, not angidate. 



926. Carcinocoris binghami. Sharp {Ca.vcmochelis),Ent. Month. Maff. 

 xxxiii, p. 3o (1897) ; id. Cambr. Nat. Hist, vi, p. 554, f. 267 

 (1899) ■; Bist. A. M. N. H. (7) ix, p. 357 (1902). 



Allied to 0. erinaceus, Handl., but with the scutellum a little 

 shorter, its margins nearly straight, not sinuate, apex not narrowed, 

 but broadly rounded ; margins of abdomen convex, not angulate ; 

 other characters much as in C. erinaceus. 



Length 6| millim. 



Hab. Burma ; Pegu Hills (Bingham). 



This and G. erinaceus were placed by Handlirsch as one species ; 

 but Sharp subsequently figured his C. binghami, and left no room 

 for misunderstanding. 



