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scutelluiu strongly spinously produced, but very slightly ascending; 

 anterior prosternal process well developed. 



Length 7 millim. 



Hab. Burma ; Karennee {Feci). 



1083. Pasiropsis nigerrima, Bercjr. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1896, p. 9. 



Piceous-black, shining ; hemelytra opaque ; apices ot: rostrum 

 and tibise and the tarsi brownish-ochraceous ; anterior pronotal 

 lobe moderately sculptured, posterior pronotal angles short, obtuse, 

 central sulcation to posterior lobe distinct ; counexivum finely 

 granulate and brownish-piceous ; legs dark castaneous, anterior 

 legs distinctly pilose beneath. 



Length 9 millim. 



Hah. Bombay {CoU. Bergrotli). 



Genus ACANTHASPIS. 



Platymeris, jmrt., Burm. Handb. ii, p. 2.33 (183o). 



Acanthaspis, Amy. ^- Serv. Hem. p. 336 (1843) ; Stdl, Hem. Afr. 



ill, pp. 122 & 126 (1865) ; id. En. Hem. iv, p. 65 (1874). 

 Tetroxia, Amy. i^- Serv. Hem. p. 334 (1843). 

 Mardania, Stdl, Ofv. Vef.-Ak. Fork. 1859, p. 189. 

 Subg. Flymis, Stal, En. Hem. iv, p. 71 (1874). 



Type, A. flavoraria, Hahu, a Javau species, confused with 

 A. sexguttata, Eabr., by Amyot and Serville. 



Distribution. Oriental and Ethiopian Kegions. 



Body oblong-ovate ; head oval or oblong, ante- and postocular 

 areas generally about equal in length ; rostrum with the first and 

 second joints variable in length, usually about equal in length ; 

 pronotum constricted before middle, in some few instances behind 

 middle, anterior lobe without spines, posterior lobe sometimes 

 discally spined and usually with the lateral angles prominent 

 either as spines or tubercles ; scutellum with the apex longly 

 spinously produced and generally obliquely ascendant ; anterior 

 femora moderately incrassared, unarmed ; anterior tibiaj provided 

 with an apical spongy furrow. 



I. First joint of antennae passing apex of head. 



A. Posterior lobe of pronotum with two long disced spines. 



a. First and second joints of rostrum eepial or subequal in length, 



a. Legs not anmdated, almost tmicolorous. 



1084. Acanthaspis quinquespinosa, Fuhr. (Reduvius) Spec. Ins. ii, 

 p. 382 (1781) ; id. (Kediivius) Mant. ii, p. 313 (1787) ; Wolff 

 (Reduvius), Ic. Cim. i, p. 39, f. 39 (1800) ; Sttd, En. Hem. iv, 

 p. 72 (1874). 



