152 PHYMATID^. 



B. Scutellum ivitli lateral margins sinuate, apex much narroived ; 

 abdomen only moderately angulate. 



927. Carcinocoris erinaceus, Handl. Verh.z.-h. Ges. Wien,x\yn,Tp.2Q 

 (1897) ; Bist. A. M. N. H. (7) ix, p. 357 (1902). 

 Carcinocoris binghami, pt., Handl. Ann. Hofmus. Wien. xii, p. 221, 

 t. vi, f. 2, t. ix, ff. 61, 62 (1897). 



Pale ochraceous ; scutellum narrow, not reaching abdominal 

 apex, sinuately narrowed from a little beyond base to about 

 middle, with a central longitudinal ridge, which, with the lateral 

 margins, is somewhat longly spinous ; head, antennae (excluding 

 apical joint), and anterior lobe of pronotum with long ei'ect spines, 

 posterior pronotal lobe coarsely granulate, with two central di- 

 verging carinations, the margins and lateral angles longly spinous ; 

 margins of abdomen longly spinous ; legs more or less longly 

 spinous. 



Length 6 to 7; breadth between pronotal angles 3 millim. 



Hah. Burma ; Karennee {Fea). 



C. Scutellum with lateral margins nearly straight, moderately nar- 

 rowed at apex ; abdomen strongly dilated, angulate and sinuate. 



928. Carcinocoris castetsi, Handl. Verh. z.-b. Ges. Wien, xlvii, p. 26 

 (1897) ; id. Ann. Hofmus. Wien, xii, p. 220, t. vi, f. 1, t. ix, 

 S. 69, 60 (1897). 



This species may be recognized by its dilated and obtusely 

 angulate abdomen, which has its margins strongly spined and 

 sinuately narrowed beyond the broad central maximum angulation, 

 where it is broadly fuscous, it also possesses two more smaller 

 transverse fuscous spots near apex : the scutellum has the lateral 

 margins nearly parallel, but distinctly narrowed at apex, which is 

 somewhat truncate, its base fuscous ; head, pronotum, and antennae 

 spined, as usual in the genus, but with the two transverse 

 carinations to the posterior pronotal lobe also somewhat closely 

 spinous. 



Length 7 to 8 millim. 



Hab. Palni Hills ; Trichinopoly {fide Handlirsch). 



