160 ARADID^. 



Distribution. Universally distributed. 



Body narrowly ovate or oblong ; head behind eyes narrowly 

 compressed and armed on each side with a very prominent tooth 

 or spine, anterior process long, antenniferous tubercles prominently 

 spinous ; rostrum short ; antennae short, first joint scarcely passing 

 apex of head, second joint almost subequal in length ; pronotum 

 transverse, near middle transversely impressed, lateral margins 

 more or less sinuate, posterior margin more or less sinuate before 

 scutellum ; scutellum triangular ; hemelytra with the corium 

 much longer than the scutellum : membrane with numerous veins 

 which more or less anastomose. 



A. Pronotum profoundly sinuate hefore base of scutellum. 



939. Brachyrhynchus feamis, Bev/r. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. xxvii, 



p. 737, pi. xii, f. 8 (18h9j. 



Dark, sometimes pale fuscous ; membrane, body beneath and 

 femora black ; apex of fourth joint of 



<=a,^ ^-c antennae ochraceous ; head broad, broader 



than long, apex of anterior process emar- 

 giuate, postocular dentate processes obtuse, 

 extending far beyond eyes ; rostrum passing 

 base of head and almost reaching anterior 

 coxae ; pronotum profoundly sinuated at pos- 

 terior margin before the base of scutellum, 

 anterior area with four unequal and irregular 

 callosities ; scutellum with the apex obtuse ; 

 hemelytra not extending beyond the penulti- 

 Fig 117 —Brachu- ^^-te abdominal segment, apical margin of 



rhynchus feanus. corium straight; abdomen much broader than 

 hemelytra. 



Length, S 10, $ 11| millim. 



Hab. Sikhira ; Mungphu {Atlinson). Burma ; Kakhyen Kauri, 

 near Bhamo (Feci). 



940. Brachyrhynchus membranaceus, 'Fabr. (Aradus) Si/fit. Wujng. 



p. 118 (1803) ; Stdl, Hem. Fabr. i, p. 96 (1868). 

 Var. albipennis, Fabr. Si/st. PJiyng. p. 118 (1803). 

 Var. orientalis. Lap. Fss. Hem. p. 54 (1832). 

 Crimia nigra, Dohrn, Stett. ent. Zeit. xxi, p. 406 (1860). 

 Aradas lugubris, Boiscl. Voy. ' Astrolabe,^ Ent. ii. p. 642, pi. xi, 



f. 24 (1835). 

 Var. nasutus, Stdl, Of v. Vet. -Ah. Fork. 1870, p. 673. 



Piceous or dark fuscous-brown ; head with the apex of the 

 anterior process moderately emarginate ; antennae very robust, 

 granulate, first, second, and third joints almost subequal in length, 

 fourth joint shortest, conical, its apex ochraceous ; pronotum with 

 four large irregular tubercles on the anterior area, posterior area 

 sparingly granulate, lateral margins sinuate at transverse impres- 

 sion, posterior margin profoundly sinuate before base of scutellum ; 

 scutellum triangular, granulate, with a somewhat obscure central 



