I^■^AEA. 273 



black, anterior lobe longitudiually rugose (sculptured?), posterior 

 lobe transversely rugose, lateral angles acutely spined, between 

 these spines others, shorter, acute, red ; scutellum black, its apex 

 recurved ; heinelytra black, with a broad medial reddish fascia 

 which is medially dentate anteriorly ; membrane black ; under 

 wings white, their apices spoted with fuscous ; legs black, pilose, 

 tarsi reddish." (In the figui'e the apices of the femora are also 

 reddish.) 



Length (taken from figure) 23 millim. 



Hab. " India orientalis." 



I do not know this species. 



Inara, Stdl, Ofc. 

 p. 76 (LS74). 



Genus INARA. 

 Vet.-Ak. Fork. ]8o9, p. 190 ; id. En. Hem. [v. 



Type, T. flavojncta, Stfil, a Malayan species. 



Distrihutioa. Oriental Region. 



Head behind eyes columnar, narrowed to base, before ej'es 

 prominently deflected, eyes very large ; antennae with the first 

 joint about as long as from insertion to base of head, distinctlv 

 shorter than second joint ; rostrum with the first and second joints 

 almost equal in length ; pronotum strongly constricted before 

 middle, anterior lobe narrow and globose, posterior lobe with the 

 lateral and posterior angles dentate ; scutellum short with a long 

 erect spine ; hemelytra not passing abdominal apex ; legs moderate 

 in length ; anterior femora slightly incrassated; anterior tibiae with 

 a spongy furrow ; posterior tibiae with the basal joint short and 

 the apical joint long. 



1124. Inara albogiittata, Stdl, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1863, p. 53. 



Shining bluish-black ; spine 

 to scutellum and legs reddish- 

 ochraceous ; apex of scu- 

 tellar spine, apical streaks 

 to anterior and intermediate 

 femora above, apices of 

 posterior femora, basal areas 

 of anterior and intermediate 

 tibiae, the posterior tibiae and 

 the tarsi black ; apex of 

 corium black with a white 

 spot; membrane black; pro- 

 notum with a distinct central 

 linear impression at apex of 

 posterior pronotal lobe, its 

 lateral and postei-ior angles 



dentately produced ; head, lateral margins of body and the le^-s 



longly pilose. 



Fig. ISO. — Liura alboijuttata . 



