332 



EEUrVIID^'E. 



versely impressed behind eyes ; posterior pronotal angles rounded, 

 subnodulose. 



Length 16 to 17 millini. 



Hah. Bengal. Ceylon (Green). 



Genus HARPACTOR. 

 Harpactor, Lap. Ess. Hem. p. 8 (183:2) ; Atm/. S)- Serv. (part.) Hem. 



p. 364 (1843) ; Fieh. Eiir. Hem. pp. 42 & 152 (1861). 

 Eeduvius, Fabr. (part.) Syst. Ent. p. 729 (1775) : Syst. Ehyny. p. 260 



(1803) ; Sial, Hem. Afr. iii, p. 75 (1865). 

 iSubg. Zostus, Plypertolnms, Diphymus, Chirillus, Lamphrius, Ilar- 

 piscus, Stdl, En. Hem. iv, pp. 37-39 (1874). 

 „ Oncauchenivis, Stal, Ofv. Vet.-Ak. For/i. 1872, No. 6, p. 46. 

 ,, Iihinicoris, Kolenati. Mclef. Ent. \i, p. 42 {Bid. Sac. Imp. N^at. 



3Iosc. xxix, p. 460) (1856). 

 ,, Rhynocoris, HciJm, iVcinz. Ins. ii, p. 20 (1834). 

 „ Dinocleptes, AgTioclopiu.s, Stdl, Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Forli. 1866, 



pp. 284, 285. 

 „ Aprepolestes, StSl, Hon. Fahr. i, p. Ill, note (1868). 

 „ Coranideus, Rent. Act. Soc. Sc. Fenn. xii, p. 296 (1881). 



Type, ff. iraci(ndi(s, Poda, a Palsearctic species. 



Distribiition. Palsearctic, Ethiopian, and Oriental Regions. 



Body oblong or subelongate ; head oblong or moderately elongate, 

 anteriorly unarmed ; rostrum with the basal joint variable in 

 length, but ahvays considerably shorter than the two apical joints 

 together : pronotum constricted before the middle ; posterior 

 lobe without spinous tubercles, apical angles rounded : scutellum 

 triangular ; henielytra of variable length, reaching or passing 

 abdominal apex ; legs of variable length, femora unarmed, anterior 

 femora sometimes incrassated. 



A. Posterior lohe of pronotum rugosely grcainlate. 



1226. Harpactor marginatus, Fabr. (Reduvius) Ent. St/st. iv, p. 190 



(1794) ; StSl (Chirillus), 

 En. Hem. iv, p. 39 (1874) ; 

 Reut. Act. Soc. Sc. Fenn. 

 xii, p. 293 (1881) ; Dist. 

 A. 31. N. H. (7) xi, -p. 205 

 (1903). 

 Sycanus ? militaris, Kirby, 

 J. Linn. Soc, Zool. xxiv, 

 p. 119 (1891). 



Sanguineous ; antennas, 

 ey^es, scutellum, inner area 

 of corium, membrane, ab- 

 domen beneath, and apical 

 two-tliirds of tibiae violace- 

 ous-black ; base of anteunse 

 and lateral margins of ab- 

 domen sanguineous; disk of 

 ^<ternuI^, coxae, trochanters, 

 and anterior lobe of pro- 

 notum reddish-ochraceous ; head as long as pronotum : basal joint 



Fig. 210. — Harpactor marginatus. 



