EEDUYIUS. 



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with base of membrane, dark fuscous-brown ; first joint of antennae 

 about as long as anteocular area of head, second nearly three 

 times in female and nearly four times in male longer than first ; 

 posterior lobe of pronotum anteriorly strongly strigose, anterior 

 lobe strongly centrally sulcate ; legs and antennae pilose. 



Length 14 to IS millim. 



Hah. Baluchistan : Quetta {Brit. Mus.). — A well-known Palse- 

 arctic species, distributed from Cxi-eece and Cyprus eastwards 

 through Persia and Turkestan. 



1071. Reduvius cincticrus, ^e?<<. -Key. rf'^?ifo/«. vi, X)- 159 (1887); id. 



Act. Soc. Se. Fcnn. xix, no. 15, p. 34 (1892). 



Head, pronotum, scutellum, and 

 -~,^^ ...-' body beneath castaneous, the abdo- 



men a little paler; anterior margin 

 and lateral angles of pronotum, co- 

 rium, spots to connexivum above and 

 beneath, and legs luteous ; a median 

 macular fascia before apical angle of 

 corium and a subapical annulation to 

 femora castaneous : antennae with 

 the first and second joints pilose, 

 remainder mutilated in type, first 

 joint about as long as anteocular 

 portion of head : pronotum cen- 

 trall}^ strongly suleated ; membrane 

 fuscous. 



Length 10 milUm. 



Hah. Sylhet ( Vienna Mus.). 



My thanks are due to Dr. Handlirsch, of the Vienna Museum, 

 for allowing me to see the types of this and the following species. 



licduvlus cincticrus 



1072. Reduvius transnominalis, nom. uov. 



Keduvius debilis, lieut. Rev. iVEntom. vi, p. 160 (1887) ; id. 

 Act. Soc. Sc. Fenn. xix, uo. 15, p. 35 (1892), uom. prseocc. 



Brownish-ochraceous, shining ; hemelytra dull ochraceous, 

 opaque ; head and ])osterior lobe of pronotum moderately casta- 

 neous ; somewhat strongly pilose, especially the legs and antennae ; 

 antennae with the first joint about as long as the anteocular 

 portion of head ; pronotum centrally sulcate, the anterior lobe a 

 little globose, lateral angles subprominent and very slightl}'' 

 recurved ; membrane not reaching the abdominal apex. 



Length 8 millim. 



Hah. "N. India" (Ficum Miis>). 



1073. Reduvius knyvetti, sp. u. 



Head, anterior lobe of pronotum, scutellum, anterior areas of 

 prosternum, the meso- and metasterna, and abdomen beneath 



