PJCTINUS. 163 



medially transversely impressed, anterior lobe with four callosities, 

 the two external very obsolete ; hemelytra almost reaching the 

 genital segment ; corium much longer than the scutellum and 

 about reaching the apex of the second segment of connexivum, 

 apical angle rounded, apical margin near middle subangulate ; 

 membrane reticulate ; margins of abdomen moderately undulate 

 or angulate at incisures ; legs erectly pilose ; antennae with the 

 first joint erectly pilose, remaining joints mutilated in type. 



Length S| millim. 



Hah. Sikhim ; Kurseong (Brussels Miis.). 



I am indebted to Mon. Severin for an opportunity of describing 

 and comparing Bergroth's typical specimen. 



Genus PICTINUS. 

 Pictinus, Sm, En. Hem. iii, pp. 140 & 145 (1873). 



Type, P. cinctipes, Stfil, a Neotropical species. 



Distribution. Nearctic, Neotropical, Oriental, and Papuan 

 Regions. 



This genus can at once be distinguished by the obliterated or 

 indiscernible veins to the membrane, and by the somewhat 

 convexly truncate posterior margin of the pronotum. 



946. Pictinus asiaticus, Beri/r. Ann. Mtis. Civ. Gen. sxxii, p. 716 



(189:2). 



Castaneous ; membrane pale hyaline ; an- 

 tennae robust, first joint incrassate, longer 

 than second, third considerably longer than 

 second, fourth fusiform ; pronotum distinctly 

 transversely impressed, anterior lobe shorter 

 than posterior, posterior lobe medially im- 

 pressed, lateral margins distinctly, broadly 

 reflexed ; scutellum broader than long, coarsely 

 punctate, centrally earinate ; hemelytra a 

 little shorter than abdomen; corium a little 

 longer than scutellum, its apical margin 

 ,,„ straight; abdomen a little broader than 



PictbSs asicUicus. hemelytra, its lateral margins strongly up- 

 wardly reflexed. 



Length 3g millim. 



Hah. Burma : Karenuee (Feci). 



947. Pictinus verrucicollis, Walk. (Crimia) Cat. Hef. vii, p. 13 (1873) ; 



JDist. A. M. N. H. (7) ix, p. 360 (1902). 



Ferruginous-brown, finely granular ; anterior angles and lateral 

 margins of pronotum, large spots to the connexivum above and 

 beneath, apices of femora, the tibiae and tarsi ocbraceous ; antennae 

 with the apices of second and fourth joints ochraceous, first joint 



m2 



