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posterior lobe rugose, lateral angles dentately prominent, posterior 

 disk unarmed ; connexivum somewhat strongly recurved ; scutellar 

 s])iue obliquely ascendant. 



Length 18 to 20 millim. 



Hah. Bengal {Brit. Mus.). Bombay (Leith). 



Stal, in his ' Enumeratio Hemipterorum,' arranges this species 

 among those which have the disk of the posterior lobe of pronotum 

 tuberculate. Of the tuberciilation in this species, he wi-ites, " minu- 

 tissimo, granuliformi, aegre distingiieiido,." They are practically 

 absent and too obsolete for any classificatory purpose. 



1102. Acanthaspis siva, sp. n. 



Black or dark piceous ; corium with a basal angular and a sub- 

 apical irregularly rounded creamy-white spot ; membrane with the 

 apex creamy-white, enclosing a fuliginous spot ; connexivmn above 

 and beneath spotted with pale ochraceous ; antennae with the 

 basal joint black, strongly pilose, remaining joints browuish- 

 ochraceous, first joint about as long as head ; rostrum with the 

 first joint slightly longer than second ; pronotum with the anterior 

 lobe moderately sculptured, posterior lobe rugulose, distinctly 

 centrally sulcate, lateral angles dentately produced and recurved, 

 disk unarmed ; scutellar spine obliquely ascendant ; legs strongly 

 pilose. 



Length 18 millim. 



Hah. ]N"orth Central Provinces (Coll. Dist.). 



b'. Femora and tibid' differently coloured. 



1103. Acanthaspis megaspila, JFalk. Cat. Ilet. vii, p. 176 (1873). 



Black ; corium (excluding base and apical angles) and a sub- 

 claval streak luteous ; rostrum, eoxse, trochanters and femora 

 pale castaneous, tibise and tarsi ochraceous ; head with two small 

 ochraceous spots behind eyes ; anteunce pilose, with the first joint 

 castaneous, second brownish-ochraceous, remainder fuscous, first 

 joint a little shorter thau head ; rostrum with the first snd second 

 joints subequal in length ; pronotum with the anterior lobe 

 strongly sculptured, the posterior lobe rugose, its lateral angles 

 shortly dentately produced, posterior disk unarmed ; scutellar 

 spine obliquely ascendant ; margins, abdomen beneath, and legs 

 longly pilose. 



Length 19 to 20 millim. 



Hab. '• Hindostan'' (Whitehill, Brit. 2Ius.). Bor Ghat (Dixon). 



The puncture made by this Reduviid causes acute pain with 

 burning sensation, the symptoms of the case very much resembling 

 those produced by the bite of the venomous reptile Trimeresarus 

 anamaUensis. The smarting sensation, if immediately attended 

 to, subsides in one or two hours ; but the whole hand becomes 

 painfully swollen if the punctures occur on a finger, the wound 

 taking about ten days to heal. (11. M. Dixon.) 



