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anterior tibiae, lateral areas of head, disk of sternum, and some- 

 times two narrow central fasciae to abdomen piceoiis ; head a 

 little shorter than pronotura ; first joint of antenuse a third part 

 shorter than head ; hemelytra shorter than abdomen. 



Length 14 to 18 millim. 



Hah. Ceylon ; Peradenyia {Green). — Southex*u Palsearctie Region ; 

 South Africa ; Madagascar, Bourbon, Mauritius : Malayan Archi- 

 pelago ; Timor. 



Genus STACCIA. 



Staccia. Sfal, Hem. Afr. iii, p. 150 (1865) ; id. En. Hem. iv, p. 84 



(1874). 



Type, S. diluta, Stal. 



Distrifmtion. Oriental and Ethiopian Regions. 



Body moderately elongate ; pronotum about equally long and 

 broad ; anteocular portion of head armed with a long spine on 

 each side, anteocular longer than postocular portion of head ; pro- 

 sternum anteriorly armed with a long spine on each side ; anterior 

 femora incrassated and with two series of strong spines beneath ; 

 rostrum with the first joint longer than second, but not longer 

 than second and third together. 



Ochraceous, eyes black 



1028. Staccia diluta, Sfdl (Oncocephalusl, Freff. Eiuj. Resa, Ins. 

 if«». p. 263 (1859). 



; lateral margins of pronotum sometimes 

 dark fuscous as in specimen figured, 

 but this character is sometimes obso- 

 lete ; first joint of antennse shorter 

 than head, about as long as anteocular 

 portion, margins of postocular area 

 rounded, narrowed posteriorly ; prono- 

 tum with the anterior and posterior 

 lateral angles tuberculous, anteriorlv 

 the prosternal spines visible from be- 

 neath ; pronotum transversely im- 

 pressed at about one-third from base, 

 the anterior lobe slightly globose; 

 hepuelytra reaching abdominal apex in 

 male, but not in female, and with a 



large cell at inner margin. 

 Length 8 to 10 millim. 

 Huh. Ce\\on {Green). Burma; Bhamo, Teinzo, Rangoon (i^ea). — 



Philippines. 



Staccia diluta. 



1029. Staccia? plebeja, Stdd, Berl. ent. Zeitschr. X, p. 166 (1866). 



Pale testaceous-fulvescent ; apices of the posterior femoi-a some- 

 what testaceous. Allied to S. eliluta, but with the head more 

 incrassated, and with the anteocular portion of the head beneath 



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