1314. Panthous bimaciilatus, DIM. A. M. X. II. (7) xi, p. 241^1 

 (190.-!). 



Head, pronotuin, coriiuu, rostrum, posterior and lateral margins 

 of prosternum, coxa^, aud legs dull reddish-ochraceous : antenna", 

 anterior margin of pronotum, a central discal spot on each corium. 

 apex of rostrum, and body beneath black ; inembrane shining, 

 bronzy-black ; base of first and sometimes also base of second 

 joint of antenna;, extreme apex of abdomen, and lateral margins 

 of fifth and sixth segments reddish-ochraceous or luteous ; anterior 

 pronotal lobe strongly tuberculate, excavate, and medially im- 

 pressed, posterior lobe very fineh' transversely striate, the lateral 

 angles broadly rounded and moderately prominent, the posterior 

 margin strongly produced and covering the scutellum ; femora 

 moderately nodulose. 



Length 20 to 22 millim. ; breadth between pronotal angles 5g to 

 6|7 millim, 



Ifab. South India ; Trivandrum (Atlinson. Brit. Mus.), Canai'a 

 (Coll. Dist.). 



Division COliANUSABIA. 



The genus Coranus represents a distinct group of the Harpacto- 

 rina' in which the antenna) are short and the first joint not longer 

 than the head ; the lateral angles of the pronotum are unarmed ; 

 the scutellum has no discoidal tubercle, but has a longitudinal 

 carination, which in some cases is produced in a suberect process 

 or spine. 



Genus CORANUS. 



Coranus, Curtis, Brit. Ent. x, pi. 453 (1833) ; Stal, Hem. Afr. iii, 

 pp. 49 .t 93 (1865); id. En. Hem. iv, p. 8 (1874); Rent. Of v. 

 Vet.-Ak. Fork. 1872, No. 6, p. 61. 



Colliocoris, Hahn, JVanz. ii,p. 23 (1834) ; Fieb. Fi/r. Hon. pp. 42 .V' 

 154 (1861). 



Type, C. sahapti-rus, de Geer, a Palajarctic species. 



Distribution. Palsearctic, Ethiopian, Oriental, aud Australasian 

 Regions. 



Body oblongly o\ ate ; head robust, oblong, antenna' short, first 

 joint as long as the head or a little shorter ; rostrum with the 

 first and second joints variable in length ; pronotiun unarmed, 

 constricted before middle ; scutellum with a medial carination 

 sometimes produced in an elevated suberect process or spine ; 

 mesosternum anteriorly pi-ovided with a small marginal tubercle ; 

 abdomen on each side modei'ately ampliated ; legs of moderate 

 length, anterior femora a little incrassated. 



