OXCOCEPIIALUS. 



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pronotiiin broadly longitudinally sulfate, postooulav area of head 

 medially less broadly sulcata. 



Length 10 millim. 



Hah. Ceylon ; Kuruvegalla and Peradeniya (£". E. Green). 



The first Eastern species described belonging to this hitherto 

 purely Neotropical genus. 



Genus ONCOCEPHALUS. 



Oncoceplialus, Kluc/, Symh. Phi/s. \\^ (1830); Stal, Hem. Aft: iii, p. lo5 

 (18Go) ; Fieb. Eur. Hem. pp. 42 & 1.51 (1801) ; Rent. Monoyr., Act. 

 Soc. Sc. Fenn. xii, p. 675 (1883). 



Spilalouius, Stdl, En. Hem. ii, p. 123 (1872). 



Subg. Bpebiiis, Stdl, Hem. Afr. iii, p. 154 (l80o). 



Type, 0. notatas, Klug. 



Distribution. Nearctic, PaUiearctic, Ethiopian, Oriental, and 

 Australasian Regions. 



Body oblong or moderately elongate ; head cylindrical, shorter 

 than the pronotum, anteriorly armed between the antennae with 

 two small spines which are sometimes very indistinct, postocular 

 portion short ; antennte with the first joint a little shorter than 

 the head ; pronotum with the anterior angles acutely prominent ; 

 scutellum with the apex laterallv spinose ; prosternum anteriorly 

 bispinose ; anterior femora incrassated, beneath finely spinose. 



A. Hemeli/tra fully developed. 



a. Antcoci-dar and postocular areas of head almost equal in lenr/tJi. 



1031. Oncocephalus notatus, A7«//, St/mb. Phi/s. ii'', pi. xix, f. 1 

 (1830) ; Eeut. Act. Soc. Sc. Fenn. xii, p. 710, pi. iii, f. 4o 

 (188.3). 



Ochraceous ; a large spot on postocular area of head, three 

 vittse to anterior lobe and five to posterior 

 lobe of pronotum, spots to connexivuin 

 above and beneath, head beneath, lateral 

 areas of sternum, a broad submarginal 

 fascia to abdomen beneath, spots and 

 other markings to anterior femora, an- 

 nulations to intermediate and posterior 

 femoi'a and tibiae, cell at inner angle 

 of corium, and a discal oblong spot to 

 membrane piceous or fuscous ; head with 

 the ante- and postocular areas about 

 equal in length ; pronotum with the 

 anterior angles laterally spiuously pro- 

 minent, lateral mai'gins sinuate, posterior 

 lateral angles rounded, cantrally sulcate on disk ; hemelytra in 

 female not reaching apex of abdomsn. 

 Length 10 to lO.j millim. 



Hah. Kashniir {Hwjel, Vienn. Mus.), Bor Ghat (DLvon). — De- 

 scribed by Klug from "Arabia deserta." 



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Fig. KJl. 

 Oncocephalus notatus. 



