ALL.i:OCRA.NUM. 



249 



Synojjsis of Genera. 



A. Anteocular portion of head tumid and 



sulcate All^bocranum, p. 249. 



B. Anteocular portion of head not tumidly 



elevate nor sulcate. 



a. Anterior femora unarmed Reduvius, p. 2o0. 



b. Anterior femora spinose Geebelius, p. 253. 



Genus ALL^OCRANUM. 



Mecrocleptes, Stal, Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Fork. 1866, p. 240 ; id. En. Hem. 



iv, p. 66 (1874) ; Rent. Act. Soc. Sc. Fenn. xii, p. 332 (1881), nom. 



praeocc. 

 Subg. Allseocranum, Rent. Act. Soc. Sc. Fenn. xii, p. 332 (1881) ; 



Leth. 4- Sev. Cat. Gen. Hem. iii, p. 90 (1896). 



Type, A. bianmdipes, Montr. & Sign. 



Distribution. Neotropical and Oriental Regions, the South Sea 

 and Mascarene Islands. 



Body oblong ; head ovate, broad, anteocular and postocular 

 portions of nearly equal length, anteocular portion tumid and very 

 distinctly sulcate, base distinctly narrowed ; eyes exteudiug trans- 

 versely across the lateral areas of the head ; tirst and second joints 

 of rostrum equal in length ; first joint of antennae a little longer 

 than anteocular portion of head ; pronotura unarmed, medially 

 constricted and longitudinally sulcate ; scutellum with the apex 

 moderately laterally produced ; anterior femora moderately incras- 

 sated ; anterior tibiae with a small spongy furrow. 



106S. Allseocranum biannulipes, Montr. S^- Sign. (Opsicoetus) Ann. 

 Soc Ent Fr 1861, p. 69; Champ. Biol. Centr.-Amer., Rhynch. 

 ii, p. 197, tab. xii, tig. 6 (1899) ; Dist. A. M. N. H. (7) x, 

 p. 181 (1902). 

 Eeduvius laniger, Butl. A. M. N. H. (4) xvii, p. 411 (1876). 



Head, pronotura and scutellum pale castaneous ; corium ochra- 

 ceous, with a pale discal longitudinal 

 streak, and a fuscous subclaval and 

 subapical spot to corium ; membrane 

 black ; legs ochraceous, femora annu- 

 lated with castaneous ; body beneath 

 ochraceous, disk of sternum castaneous, 

 connexivum faintly spotted with casta- 

 neous ; pilose ; legs, antennae, and lateral 

 margins of body longly pdose. 



Length 6 to 7 millim. 



Hah. Ceylon {Lewis) ; Peradeniya 

 {Green). Burma ; Palon, Bhamo, 

 Schwegoo-Myo {Fea). Tenasserim; 

 Kawkareet, Thagata {Feci). — Also re- 

 corded from the Malayan Archipelago, 

 South Sea Islands, Bourbon, Central America, and the Antilles. 



Fig. 173. — AUcBOcranum 

 biannulipes. 



