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reuuviid.t:. 



Si/iio^isis of Genera. 



A. Head anteriorly produced in a porrect 



spine ; first joint of rosti'um not ex- 

 tending behind eyes Tbibelocephala, p. 220. 



B. Head obtuse, not anteriorly spinousl}' 



produced ; first joint of rostrum ex- 

 tending behind eyes Opisthoplatys, p. 221. 



Genus TRIBELOCEPHALA. 



Tribelocephala, Stal, Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Fork. 1853, p. 263 ; id. Hem. 

 Afr. iii. p. 160 (1865) ; id. En. Hem. iv, p. 90 (1874). 



Type. T. hoschjesmana, St?d, an Ethiopian species. 



Distribution. Ethiopian and Oriental liegious. 



Body oblong, ovate ; head oblong, its base moderately con- 

 stricted, anteriorly spinously developed ; antenniferous tubercles 

 laterally prominent ; ocelli absent ; rostrum with the first joint 

 about equal to the two apical joints together ; antennte with the 

 first joint incrassate, very little shorter than the head, second 

 shoi'ter than the first, remaining joints slender, indeterminate : 

 pronotum transverse, narrowed from beyond middle ; scutellum 

 subtriangular ; hemelytra a little shorter and narrower than the 

 abdomen, the coriaceous portion small, elougate, occupying about 

 half the length of hemelytra : membrane very large ; legs short, 

 anterior femora slightly incrassated. 



A small genus at j^resent containing four species, three of 

 which are Oriental in distribution and ar(^ found in this fauna. 



1022. Tribelocephala indica. Walk. (Opistoplatys) Cat. Het. viii, 

 p. 20 (1873) : 7^/.*^ A. M. X H. (7) ix, p. 175 (1902). 



Piceous or chocolate-brown, 

 densely and more palely tomen- 

 tose ; membrane witli the veins 

 distinctly darker ; rostrum, body 

 beneath and legs a little paler 

 in hue; head a little longer 

 than the pronotum ; head and 

 pronotuQi moderately granulate; 

 antennae longly pilose. 



Length 11 to 13 millim. 



Hal). North Bengal {Camp- 

 T-. rr ; 1 7 7 • 7- hell, Brit. j\Ius.). Ceylon; Pera- 



demy a [Green). 



T. lignea, Eeut. (Eev. d'Ent. vi, p. 166, 1887), from Java, 

 may probably prove to be conspecific with the above. 



