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apices of femora, bases of anterior aud intermediate tibiae, and the 

 posterior tibioe blnish-black ; a spot on each side of the penultimate 

 abdominal segment, sometimes the whole of the two last segments, 

 ochraceous ; hemelytra and connexivum black, opaque, the first 

 with the basal augles sanguineous, the second with the penultimate 

 segment, or last two segments, ochraceous ; anterior lobe of the 

 pronotum a little longer than the posterior. 



Var. a. Abdomen with an ochraceous spot on each side of 

 abdominal penultimate segment ; anterior tibiae with apex bluish- 

 black. 



Var. h. Eesembling var. a, but with anterior tibia) wholly 

 bluish-black. 



Var. c. Last two abdominal segments ochraceous, other segments 

 of connexivum spotted with ochraceous. 



Length 15 to 18 millim. 



Hah. Sylhet {Stock-holm Mus.). Tenasserim ; Myitta (DoJierti/), 

 Thagata (Fea). — Sumatra, Borneo, Java, and other islands of the 

 Malayan Archipelago. 



1143. Tiarodes elegaiis, Stal, Ann. Soc. Eat. Fr. 1860, p. 55. 



" Blackish-blue ; rostrum, hemelytra, legs, and abdomen san- 

 guineous, the abdomen with the last and anal segments blackish- 

 blue; membrane (base excepted) dark fuscous." (Stcil.) 

 S 2 ' Length IS millim. 



Ilab. Ceylon. 



I have not seen this species. Stal records the type as being in 

 the collection of the British Museum ; but this may have been an 

 eiTor, as it is not to be found there now. 



Genus CONORHINUS. 



Conorhimis, Laj). Fss. Hem. p. 78 (1832); Stal, Berl. ent. Zeitschr. 

 1859, p. 100; id. Hem. Afr. ill, p. 120 (1865;; id. En. Hem. i\, 

 p. 64 (1874). 



Type, G. nibrqfasciatus, de Cleer. 



Distribution. JVearctic, Neotropical and Oriental Eegions, China, 

 and Madagascar. 



Head long, porrect, more or less distinctly impressed behind eyes ; 

 rostrum with the first joint very much shorter than second ; 

 antennae inserted on the sides of the head about midway 

 between eyes and apex ; ocelli placed very far apart ; prosternum 

 broadly sulcated ; abdomen strongly ampliated. not centrally cari- 

 nate, frequently with the disk prominently flattened ; posterior 

 tibiae longer than the femora. 



Some of the species of this genus are formidable insects, for 

 instance, C. infestans, Klug {■=renfjfjeri, Herr.-Sch.), which, as 



