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EEDLVIID.i:. 



Kangra Valley, to the British Museum with the information that 

 " the insect makes a creaking noise when held between the lingers, 

 moving the thorax up and down similar to the action of some 

 Longicorn beetles. It has a most loathsome scent." The Palse- 

 arctic species P. Jiijhrichfs, Scop. ( = stnchdus, Fabr.), is also known 

 to stridulate. 



b. Hemelijtra pale! n spotted. 



1166. Pirates punctum, Fabr. (Eediuius) Fnf. Si/st. iv, p. 203 

 (1794) ; id. (ReduTius) Syst. Bhynfj. p. 277 (1803). 

 Pirates instabilis, Wcdh. Cat. Het. vi'i, p. 118 (1873). 



Piceous ; head, antenna^, rostrum, pronotum, connexivum 

 (above and beneath), lateral margins of sternum and legs ochra- 

 ceous ; a large spot occupying apical half of clavus and adjoining 

 portion of corium luteous ; antennae pilose, apex fuscous, second 

 joint as long as pronotum ; basal angles of posterior lobe of 

 pronotum distinctly dentately produced ; spongy furrow to anterior 

 tibiae occupying not more than a third of the under surface ; 

 anterior femora minutely tuberculously spinous beneath. 



Length 15 millim. 



Hah. Xorth Bengal {Camphell, Brit. Mas.). 



The type of Pabricius is contained in the Banksian Collection 

 belonging to the British Museum. 



b. Legs fiavescent, ajnees of femora fuscovs. 



1167. Pirates sanctllS, Fabr. (Redmius) 3Iant. ii, p. 310 (1787) : 

 JJ'o/f, Ic. ii, p. 80, f. 77 (1801); Walk. (Lestomenis) Cat. 

 Het. vii, p. 94 (1873) ; Bist. A. M. N. H. (7) x, p. 283 (1902). 

 Cimex sacer, Gmd. Syst. Nat. i, iv, p. 2197 (1788). 

 Pirates latifer, Wall;. Cat. Het. vii, p. 119 (1873). 

 Stoll, Pun. f. 02. 



Luteous ; eyes, narrow lateral 

 margins and a.central longitudinal 

 fascia to anterior jjronotal lobe, 

 anterior marginal area of posterior 

 pronotal lobe, hemelytra, trans- 

 verse spots to connexivum above 

 and beneath, lateral areas of pro- 

 sternum, meso- and metasterna 

 (excluding margins), segmental 

 fascia) and apex to abdomen, 

 apices of femora and tibiae, and 

 anterior femora beneath black or 

 piceous ; antenna; pilose, second 

 joint almost as long as pro- 

 I'ii-atcs Mndus. notum ; anterior pronotal lobe 



central fine linear sulcation, merged in a foveate spot 



