300 REDUYIID.E. 



1170. Pirates bicolor, Bist. Ann. Soc. Ent. Bel;/. 1903, p. 61. 



Head, anterior lobe of proiiotuni, and scutellum indigo-black ; 

 posterior lobe of pronotiini, corium and membrane dark brownisli- 

 ochraceous ; body beneath and legs dark brownisli-ochraceous ; 

 anterior femora and tibiae, intermediate and posterior femora, 

 sternum, central and lateral fasciae and apex to abdomen dark 

 purplisb-brown ; antennae brownish-ochraceous, pilose, basal joint 

 darkest, second joint about as long as pronotum ; anterior lobe of 

 pronotum centrally sulcate, the lateral areas irregularly striate ; 

 legs and antennae somewhat strongly pilose ; anterior and inter- 

 mediate femora tuberculously spinous beneath. 



Length 19 millim. 



Hah. Assam ; Naga Hills ( Chennell). 



B. Anterior femora not sjiinose beneath. 

 a. Membrane spotted or viarl-ed with (jreiiish. 



1171. Pirates quadrinotatus, Fabr. (Reduvius) Ent Syst. Supi)l. 



p. 544 (1798); id. Syst. Rhijng. p. 277 (1803); SfM (Spiloder- 

 miis), Hem. Fabr. i,'p. 122 (1868). 

 Peirates biguttatus, Dohrn, Stett. ent. Zeit. xxi, p. 407 (18G0). 



Black, beneath with legs somewhat greyishly sericeous ; poste- 

 rior lobe of pronotum, scutellum, clavus, corium, and posterior 

 lateral margins of prosternum cinnamon-brown ; posterior inner 

 area of corium black ; membrane \Aith two spots (one anterior, 

 the other posterior) and a line on basal margin white ; spots to 

 connexivum above and beneath, apices of coxte, and bases of inter- 

 mediate and posterior femora luteous ; apex of scutellum distinctly 

 recurved ; antennae pilose, second joint almost as long as pronotum; 

 femora unarmed beneath ; spongy furrow to anterior tibia) not 

 occupying more than about a third of their length. 



Length 9 to 10 milliui. 



Ilab. 8ylhet {Stoclchohn Mus.). Ceylon (Green). 



1172. Pirates arcuatus, Stdl (Spilodermus), Ofc. Vet.-Akud. Fork. 



1870, p. 692; iJist. A. M. N. H. (7) x, p. 284 (1902). 

 Pirates mutilloides, Walk. Cat. Het. vii, p. 120 (1873). 



Black, moderately griseous-sericeous and pilose ; pronotum, 

 scutellum, clavus, and basal half of corium dark cinnamon-brown ; 

 an arcuated transverse fascia near base of membrane, and a sub- 

 apical rounded spot, spots to connexivum above and beneath, coxae 

 (excluding bases), nearly whole of trochanters, and bases of in- 

 termediate and posterior femora greyish flavescent ; second joint 

 of antennae about as long as anterior lobe of pronotum, which is 

 distinctly more or less longitudinally striate. 



Length 9^ to 11 millim. 



