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1055. Valentia apetala, de Vuill. (Petalocheirus) Ann. Sac. Ent. Fr. 



1864, p. 142, pi. i, f. 10 ; Sldl, En. Hem. iv, p. 82 (1874) ; Dist. 



A. M. N. H. (7) X, p. 180 (1902). 

 Lisarda iavana, Mayr, Verh. z.-h. Ges. Wien, xv, p. 437 (1865) ; 



id. Reise Novara, Hem. p. 148, f. 88 (1866). 

 Petalocliinis fiinestus, Walk. Cat. Het. viii, p. 9 (1873). 



Head, pronotiim, scutelluin, ros- 

 trum, steruum and coxte fuscous : 

 hemelytra, abdomen beneath and 

 legs brownish-testaceous : a small 

 rounded spot on inner margin of 

 corium. spots to connexivum, basal 

 areas of femora and subbasal annu- 

 lations to tibiae luteous or ochrace- 

 ous ; antenna3 witli the first joint 

 ochraceous, its apex fuscous, second 

 joint; fuscous, its apex ochraceous ; 

 anterior area of head and the pro- 

 notum centrally finely sulcate ; 

 lateral pronotal spines a little 

 obliquely u})\\ardly directed; spines 

 to connexivum baekwardly directed; 

 anterior tibia3 apically compressed and thickened for about one- 

 third of their length ; apical spine to scutellum long, erect. 

 Length 17 to 18 mihim. 

 Hub. Sylhet {Brit. 31 as.). —Malay Peninsula ; 8iam ; Java. 



Fig. 166. — Valentia ape/ala. 



1056. Valentia compressipes, Stai, En. Hem. iv, p. 82 (1874). 



Allied to the preceding species ( V. apetala), and differing by the 

 anterior tibiae which are compressed and arapliated for nearly 

 their whole length, but very much broader at apex than at base ; 

 hemelytra much mottled with ochraceous ; legs brownish-ochra- 

 ceous ; interior pale spot to corium subobsolete ; antenna? with 

 the first joint ochraceous, remaining joints fuscous ; abdomen 

 beneath pale ochraceous with a central discal fuscous line. 



Length I65 to 18 millim. 



Hah. Burma ; Palon, Bhamo, Karennee, Teinzo (Fea), Rangoon 

 {Brit. Mas.). Tavoy {Brit. JIus.). 



Genus PETALOCHIRUS. 



Petalocheirus, Pal. Beavc. Ins. p. 13 (1805). 



Petalocbirus,\BM?v«. Handh. ii, p. 246 (1835); 8tdJ^ Hem. Afr. 



iii, p. 144 (1865) ; id. En. Hem. iv, p. 81 (1874). 

 Subg. Platychiria, Hcrr.-Schdff. Wanz. Ins. ix, p. 93 (1853). 



Type, F. varie(/atus, Pal. Beauv., an Ethiopian species. 

 Bistrihution. Ethiopian and Oriental Eegions. 

 Oblong-ovate ; head deflected in front of eyes, autenniferous 

 tubercles sliglitly prominent, eyes very prominent ; rostrum with 



