290 REBUVIID^. 



tubercle near each lateral angle ; membrane passing abdominal 

 apex. 



Length 16 to 17 millim. 



Hah. Assam; Khiisi Hills (CJiennell). Deccan (Stockholm 

 Mus.). 



1148. Androclus pictus, Jlei-r.-Schaf. (Pirates) Wcmz.Lis. viii, p. 03 

 f. 8:^7 (1848) ; Sm (A. Dichraotropis), IJn. Hem. iv, p. 63 

 (1874). 

 Androclus (Dichraotropis) sculpturatus, Brecld. Soc. Entomol. 

 xviii, p. 4 (1903). 



Castaneous ; membrane and clavus (excluding base) pale fuli- 

 ginous ; a large central spot to clavus, a large rounded spot on 

 corium outside claval apex, three or four small spots at base, 

 and a very large irregularly shaped discal spot to membrane, 

 dark piceous ; spots to connexivum above and beneath, sternum, 

 a series of transverse segmental spots on each lateral area of 

 abdomen, and the posterior legs dark piceous ; extreme apices of 

 posterior femora and bases of posterior tibia3 luteous ; antennae 

 pilose, second joint a little the longest ; anterior prouotal lobe 

 striate; anterior and intermediate femora incrassate. 



Length 10;^ to 11 millim. 



Hah. Nagpur (^i^-mso/i). Bombay (CoZ?. Dist.). — Java. I also 

 possess a specimen from South Africa, taken at Delagoa Bay 

 {Junod). Transvaal {Brit. 3Ius.). Dutch East Africa (Jlde 

 Breddin). 



Genus PHALANTUS. 



Plialantus, StSl, Ann. Sue. Eat. Fr. 1863, p. 57 ; id. Hem. Afr. iii. 

 p. 113 (1865) ; id. En. Hem. iv, p. 56 (1874). 



Type, P. genicidatas, Stal. 



Distribution. Ethiopian and Oriental Kegions ; China and Japan. 



Head stout, broad, behind eyes moderately constricted, basal 

 collar short ; rostrum very stout, second joint longest, apical joint 

 shortest ; pronotum behind middle transversely constricted ; scu- 

 tellum with its apex produced ; legs of moderate length, anterior 

 femora incrassated, beneath ampliated and finely spinous, anterior 

 tibiae shorter than the femora, moderately curved, apically truncate, 

 provided beneath with a short apical spongy furrow ; posterior 

 tarsi with the second joint a little longer than the third. 



1149. Phalantus feanus, Bist. Ann. Soc. Ent. Behj. 1903, p. 61. 



Black ; first, third and fourth joints of antennae and the legs 

 ochraceous ; second joint of antennae and apex of first joint dull 

 dark castaneous ; apices of femora and bases of tibiae black. Pos- 

 terior lobe of pronotum and the scutellum very finel}^ granulate, 

 anterior lobe with a fine central linear sulcation ; membrane 



