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Genus TIARODES. 



Tiarodes, Btirm. Handb. ii, p. 237 (1835) ; Amy. 8,- Serv. Hem. p. 341 

 (1843) ; Stdl, Hem. Afr. iii, p. 120 (I860) ; id En. Hem. \w, p. 64 

 (1874). 



Cimbus, Lap. Ess. Hem. pp. 78 & 80 (1832). 



Cymbidus, Spin. Ess. Hem. p. 98 (1837). 



Type, T. versicolor, Lap. 



Distribution. Oriental Eegion. and throughout the Malayan 

 Archipelago, 



Body moderately depressed ; head long and subcylindrical, 

 anteocular very much longer than postocular area ; insertion of 

 antenna; very far removed from eyes : ocelli moderately wide apart ; 

 prostermim anteriorly profoundly sulcated, the process posteriorly 

 angulated and not much produced ; intermediate and posterior 

 coxsB about equally separated from the lateral margins and from 

 each other : first joint of the rostrum longer than the second ; 

 antennae with the second joint more than twice the length of 

 first ; pronotum strongly medially impressed, the posterior lobe 

 wider than the anterior lobe, anterior angles tubereulously 

 prominent, posterior angles broadly rounded. 



1141. Tiarodes meldolse, IJist. Tr. E. S. 1880, p. 152. 



Sanguineous ; head above, apices of femora, bases of tibia?, and 



abdomen shining bluish-black ; 

 hemelytra (excluding a broad 

 sanguineous basal patch) black, 

 opaque ; sternum with two cen- 

 tral and two lateral spots on 

 each side bluish-black; antennae 

 (excluding basal joint) somewhat 

 longly pilose; head finely trans- 

 versely striate, with a somewhat 

 obsolete central impression ; 

 disk of pronotum sulcate, the 

 anterior and posterior lobes sub- 

 equal in length ; scutellum dis- 

 tinctly foveate at base. 

 Length 20 to 22 millim. 



Ilab. Andaman s ; Port Blair (MeMola). 



Fig. 188. — Tiarodes meldola. 



1142, Tiarodes versicolor. Lap. (Cimbus) Ess. Hem. p. 80 (1832) ; 

 Blanch. (Ectrichodia) Hist. Ins. iii, p. 106 (1840) ; Bunn. 

 Handb. ii, p. 237 (1835) ; Amij. ^- Sen: Hem. p. 342 (1843), 



Sanguineous ; head above, broad lateral margins, sometimes the 

 whole of the first to fourth segments, to the abdomen beneath, 



