SIRTHEXEA. 



303 



antennpe pilose, first joiut about as long as from insertion to 

 base of head, second as long as anterior lobe of pronotum ; legs and 

 margins of body longly pilose or hirsute. 



Length 20 to 2(3 millim. 



Hah. Hardwar {Wood- Mason). Cuteh {Ind. Mas.). Madras 

 {Coll. Dist.). Mysore {Ind. Mus.). Bangalore {Cameron). 



Genus SIRTHENEA. 



Sirtheuea, Spin. ^ss. Hem. p. 100 (1840) ; ,Sf,dl, Hem. Afr. iii.p. 113 



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

 liasahus (part.), Amy. ^- Sen: Hem. p. 325 (1843). 



Type, 'S'. carinata, Fabr., a Nearctic species. 



Distribution. JNearctic, Neotropical, Ethiopian, and Oriental 

 Eegions. 



Head long, subporrect, anteocular portion very much the 

 longest ; antennae inserted remotely from eyes ; rostrum \\ith the 

 third joint slender and longer than first joint, second at least 

 twice the length of first ; pronotum m ith the apex distinctly 

 sinuate ; anterior angles not tuberculate, rounded or snbpromi- 

 nent ; mesosternum carinate ; intermediate tibiae without a spongy 

 furrow. 



1177. Sirthenea flavipes, StSl (Rasahus), Of v. Vet.-Ak. Fork. 1855, 



p. 187 ; id. Bn. Hem. iv, p. 57 (1874) : Dist. A. M. N. H. (7) 



X, p. 280 (1902). ^ 



Rasalius cumingi, DoJirn, Stett. ent. Zeit. xxi, p. 407 (1860). 



Pirates strigif'er & basiger, Walk. Cat. Het. vii, pp. 110, 117 



(1873). ^^ 



Black ; head, anterior lobe of pronotum, and disk of abdomen 

 beneath pale castaneous : first joint of antennae, base of second. 



Fig. 197. —Sirthenea flavipes. 



and third excluding base, base and apex of clavus, base and a 

 subclaval apical spot to corium, apex of membrane, rostrum, 

 legs, spots to connexivum above and beneath, and a large lateral 



