STENOL.BMUS. 



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Genus STENOL^MUS. 



Stenolemus, Si(/n. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1858, p. 251 ; Dohrn, Linn. 



E7it. xiv, p. 214 (1860). 

 Stenolferaus, Champ. Biol. Centr.-Am., Rhynch. ii, p. 163 (1898). 



Type, S. Sjnniventris, Sign., from Mexico. 



Distribution. Neotropical, Palfearctic, Ethiopian, and Oinental 

 Regions. 



Head small, rounded posteriorly, profoundly inapressed between 

 the eyes ; rostrum reaching but not passing the anterior coxae ; 

 antennae long, first joint somewhat stout and longly hirsute, 

 remaining joints more slender, less longly hirsute, first and second 

 joints longest ; thorax long, sharply divided into three parts, the 

 antei'ior portion globose, the posterior portion somewhat tuberculous, 

 those portions united by a central narrow cylindrical area ; anterior 

 coxae very long, about half the length of femora, which are armed 

 beneath with a series of long fine spines ; posterior legs slender, 

 very longly hirsute ; hemelytra long, membranous, the apical 

 margin distinctly or indistinctly concave ; scutellum armed with 

 two spines, one discal, the other apical. 



1000. StenolaBmus crassirostris, Stdl, Of v. Vet.-Ak. Fdrh. 1870 

 p. 702. 



Creamy-white, longly pilose, antennae and legs annulated with 



fuscous ; hemelytra varied with 

 fuscous ; middle cylindrical por- 

 tion of the thorax shorter than 

 either of the other thoracic seg- 

 ments ; scutellar spines straight ; 

 hemelytra with three chocolate- 

 brown irregularly shaped spots^ — 

 one on disk near lateral margin, 

 one near apex of inner margin, 

 the other more or less broken 

 near apical margin. 



Length 7 millim. 



Hah. Ceylon ; Peradeniya 

 ( Green). — Philippines (Semper). 



I have to thank Dr. Sjostedt, 

 of the Stockholm Museum, for 

 lending me a cotype of Stal's 

 species with \^hich to compare the Ceylonese specimen. 



Fig. 142. — Stenolcemus crassirostris. 



1001. Stenolsemus greeni, Dist. A. M. N. H. (7) xi, p. 256 (1903 



Brownish-ochraceous ; three pale striae (one central and two 

 lateral) to globose portion of pronotum, pedunculate portion and 

 posterior margin of pronotum pale ochraceous ; legs luteous, 

 anterior legs considerably but obscurely annulated with pale 

 brownish, intermediate and posterior femora with several brownish 



