HAKPACTOK. 333 



of rostrum reaching eyes ; first joint of antennte almost equal in 

 length to anterior femora, ante- and postocular areas of head about 

 equal in length ; pronotum with the anterior lobe sculptured, the 

 posterior lobe rugulose ; corium rugulose, the transverse cell near 

 base of membrane margined with sanguineous ; membrane passing- 

 abdominal apex. 



Var. Abdomen beneath totally bLack. 



Length 19| to 20 inilHm. 



Hah. "North India" (Coll. Disf.). Vizagapatam. Ceylon 

 (Green). 



1227. Harpactor squalus, sp. n. 



Black; pronotum, sternum, corium, and legs piceous ; posterior 

 lobe of pronotum and corium coarsely rugosely granulate ; first 

 joint of rostrum reaching eyes and longer than anteocular portion 

 of head ; ante- and postocular areas of head about equally long, 

 first joint of antennae almost as long as anterior femora ; anterior 

 pronotal lobe sculptured, with two small but distinct discal tubercles, 

 and posteriorly centrally excavated ; legs somewhat longly pilose ; 

 membrane passing abdominal apex. 



Length 21 millim. 



JIab. Sikhim ; Pankabari. 



B. Posterior lohe of pronotum not, or renj ohscurchj, riufosehj 

 grmmlate. 



a. Head as long, or about as long, as pronotum. 



a. First joint of rostrum not, or scarcelg, longer than anteocular 

 area of head. 



1228. Harpactor fuscipes, Fabr. (lleduvius) iMant. Ins. ii, p. 312 

 (1787) ; id. Si/sf. Rhynf/. p. 278 (1803) ; StM (JJedLivius). Hem. 

 Fabr. i. p. 110 (1868) ; Bist. yl. 31. N. If. (7) xi, p. 205 (1903). 



Reduviiis sangiiiuolentus, Wolff, Ic. Clin. i.v, p. 166, f. 160 (1804). 



Reduvius coralliuus, Lepell. •$• Serv. Enc. Met/i. x, p. 279 (1825). 



Harpactor bicoloratus, Kirby, J. Linn. Soc, Zool. xxiv. p. 120 

 (1891). 



Coral-red ; autennte, rostrum, central lobe, an oblong spot 

 between antennae, upper surface of postocular area and a lateral 

 fascia behind eyes (both fused at base), anterior area of posterior 

 lobe of pronotum (not rearhing lateral margins), disk of scutellum, 

 two spots to prosternum, bases of pi-o-, meso-, and metasterna, 

 segmental fasciae to abdomen beneath, and the legs black; first 

 joint and base of second joint to rostrum, and spots near coxae, 

 coral-red : clavus, interior area of corium, and membrane fuscous- 

 violaceous; basal streak on under surface of anterior femora luteous, 

 sometimes obsolete ; head as long as pronotum ; basal joint of 

 rostrum not passing eyes ; first joint of antenna) a httle shorter 



