AXTIOPI'LA. 



305 



b. Anterior femora strongly spined near 



<apex Labidocoris, p. 313. 



C. Antennje with six joints ; anterior femora 

 strongly incrassated. 



a. Abdomen above rugose ; not globose. 

 a. Abdomen beneath not longitudi- 

 nally impressed, or with the tirst 

 four segments linearly medially 



impressed Physobhynchus, p. 318. 



h. Abdomen beneath with the tirst 

 four segments distinctly centrally 

 divided '. Stegius, p. 322. 



b. Abdomen globose ; above levigate, not 



rugose Eeiximachus, p. 323. 



I). Antennfe with four joints ; anterior 



femora very slightly incrassated ViLius, p. 324. 



Genus ANTIOPULA. 



Antiopa, Stal, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1863, p. 47 ; id. En. Hem. iv, 



p. 50 (1874), nom. prteocc. 

 Anticiuda, Berr/r. Rev. (VEnt. xiii, p. 163 (1894), nom. n. 



Type, A.piimila, Stal. 

 Distribution. Ceylon. 



Body small ; head large, above and beneath convex, behind 

 eyes incrassated, and at base strongly constricted ; ocelli mode- 

 rately prominent ; rostrum with the first and second joints sub- 

 equal in length ; antennae short, first joint shorter than the head, 

 though passing the apex of same, second a little longer than first : 



prouotum transversely constricted 

 before middle, longitudinally im- 

 pressed on disk and near lateral 

 angles ; scutellum transverse, the 

 lateral apical angles widely sepa- 

 rated ; legs moderately short ; 

 anterior femora a little thickened 

 but unarmed, spongy furrow to 

 anterior tibiae small. 



117b. Antiopula pumila, Stdl 

 (Antiopa), Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 

 1863, p. 47. 



Coral-red ; antennae legs and 

 hemelytra fuscous-black, the two 

 apical joints of the antennae 

 white ; lateral margins of corium 

 coral-red ; the last dorsal segment of the abdomen, the dorsal 

 lateral margin of the two apical segments, the posterior area of 

 the last segment beneath, and the anal segment black ; the longi- 

 tudinal impressions to the pronotum and the transverse ventral 

 incisures slightly carinate. 



Fig. 198. — Antiopula pmnilu. 



