CALOCORIS. 



451 



with tlie disk glabrous ; corium and clavus strongly greyishlv-pilose ; 

 membrane very pale fuliginous, with venation black ; bod\- beueath 

 and legs pale ochraceoiis, the legs darkest ; mesonotum (slightly, 

 perhaps accidentally, exposed in typical specimen) exhibiting two 

 large discal fuscous spots ; abdomen beneath with a submarginal 

 segmental series of linear fuscous spots. 



Length 4 millim. 



Hob. Ceylon ; Peradeniya {Green). 



Genus CALOCORIS. 



Calocoris, Fieb. Wien. cnt. Monatsb. Bd. ii, p. o05 (I808) ; /(/. Eur. 

 Hem. pp. 6.5, 251 (18G1) ; Rent. Bih. Vet.-Ak. Handl. iii, 1, p. 11 

 (187,y) ; Sannd. Hem. Het. Brit. Islds. p. 2;38 (1892). 



Subg. Closterotomus, Fieb. Ear. Hem. pp. 60, 261 (1861). 

 „ Derfeocoris, Dourjl. S^- Scott, Brit. Hem. p. olo (1805). 



Type, C. liiteolatus, Goeze, a Palaearctic species. 



Distribution. Probably nearly universally distributed, though 

 not yet recorded from the Ethiopian Region. 



Body elongate, head inserted to the eyes ; rostrum extending 

 beyond the intermediate but not passing the posterior coxae; 

 antennas variable, with the basal joint shorter than the pronotura or 

 about the same length ; pronotum convexly deflected anteriorly, with 

 a narrow raised collar ; scutellum moderately tumid ; hemelytra with 

 the margins parallel or sometimes slightly rounded ; tibia? setose. 



411. Calocoris lineolatus, Goeze (Cimex) Ent. Beijtr. ii, p. 267 

 (1778) ; Reut. Act. Soc. A'c. Fe?iu. xv, p. 262 (1888), et syu. 

 LygfBUs cheuopodii, Fall. Hon. Cim. p. 74 (1808). 

 Calocoris chenopodii, Dist. Sec. Yark. 3Iiss., Rki/tieh. p. 10 (1879) ; 

 Sannd. Hem. Het. Brit. Islds. p. 243 (1892). 



Pale greenish-ochraceous ; prono- 

 tum with its posterior disk frequently 

 iufuscated and often with two black 

 spots ; scutellum with two central 

 black hues ; extreme lateral mai'gins 

 of the corium, and usually a discal 

 fascia to corium, dark brown ; 

 legs speckled with black ; cuneus 

 stramineous ; membrane pale fuli- 

 ginous, with the veins piceous ; 

 antenna) robust, second, third and 

 fourth joints about equally thick ; 

 pronotum much narrowed anteriorly ; 

 tibiai somewhat longly setose. 



Length SI- to 9 millim. 



Hub. Kashmir ; 8ind Aalley {Sto- 

 liczlca). — Widely distributed in the 

 Paltearctic Region and recorded from 

 Fig. 291.— 6'a/yc'0/-fs lineolcdus. Turkistan. 

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