154 ARADlD.i. 



Type, A. versicolor, Herr.-SchafF., a Palaearctic species. 



Distribution. Uuiversally distributed. 



Head with the apical process tumescent ; antennae with the 

 first joint short, incrassate, its base finely stylated ; sternum 

 distinctly sulcated ; rostrum reaching or passing the base of the 

 prosternum. 



929. Aradus abnormis, Bergr. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. xxvii, p. 730, 



pl.xii, fi. 1,2 (1889). 



Male elongate, parallel, female elon- 

 gately oval ; black, opaque ; pronotum six- 

 carinate. 



Male ; genital segment with long lobes 

 extending considerably beyond the apex of 

 the abdomen, as shown in figure. 



Head longer than broad, spines at anten- 



niferous tubercles long and prominent ; 



antennae black, with the second joint about 



four times as long as the first, third joint 



gradually thickened from base to apex ; 



rostrum extending beyond the base of the 



prosternum ; pronotum with anterior mar- 



Hg. ll_. -^ ^ little broader than base of head with 



Aradiot cilinormis. ^ i . i • ^ ^ i- i •,^ 



eyes, lateral margins crenulate, disk with 

 six carinae, parallel, the outermost shortest; scutellum elongate, 

 subtriaugular, lateral margins elevated; anterior disk granulate, 

 posterior area transversely rugulose ; hemelytra a little shorter 

 than the abdomen, at base a little laterally ampliated ; legs dark 

 fuscous, tibiae medially much paler. 



Length, c? 5|, § 6^ millim. 



Hah. Tenasserim ; Thagata (Fert)- 



930. Aradus candidatus, Beryr. Ann. Mtis. Civ. Gen. xxvii. p. 732, 



pi. xii, f. 3 (1889). 



Oblong-ovate, opaque, dark fuscous ; antennae, hemelytra, and 

 posterior angles of the segments to connexivum much paler ; 

 pronotum six-carinate. 



Head longer than broad, spines at antenniferous tubercles long, 

 not toothed ; antennae with the basal joint black, remaining joints 

 pale brovvnish-ochraceous ; pronotum with the lateral margins 

 entire, not crenulate, distinctly concavely sinuate, the base before 

 scutellum moderately concavely sinuate, disk with six carinations, 

 the two central with their apices moderately incrassated, the 

 next on each side of these with their apices hooked or curved, 

 outermost shortest ; scutellum tx'iangular, laterally elevated, near 

 base obtusely centrally elevated ; hemelytra a little shorter than 

 abdomen ; membrane silvery white. 



Length, (S 44 to 5, $ 4| miUim. 



Hab. Tenasserim ; Thagata, Plapoo (Fca). 



