ODOyTOBRACHYS. 7 



margins parallel ; membrane with a small basal cell and three 

 veins ; anterior and posterior femora very strongly incrassated, 

 and spinulose on their under surface ; tarsi three-jointed. 



Owing to the specimen described being in a carded condition, 

 the structure of the sternum cannot be ascertained. 



Fig. 6. 

 Sesellius parallelus. 



1477. Sesellius parallelus, 3Iotsch. (An- 

 tliocoris) BkII. Soc. Mosc. xxxvi 

 (3) p. 89 (1863) ; Reut. Act. Soc. 

 Sci. Fenn. xiv, p. 717. 



Shining, piceous or piceoiis-black ; 

 rostrum, tibiae, tarsi, and basal area of 

 corium stramineous ; membrane shining 

 stramineous on basal, greenish-fuscous 

 on posterior area ; pronotum more or 

 less transversely strigose, corium very 

 fiuely and palely pilose ; other struc- 

 tural characters as in generic diagnosis. 



Length 2.| millim. 



Hah. Ceylon {Lewis). 



Genus ODONTOBRACHYS. 



Odontobrachvs, Fieb. Wien. ent. Monafschr. iv, p, 261 (1860) : Eur. 

 Hem. p. 38 (1861). 



Type, 0. niger, Eieb. 

 Distribution. British India. 



Wings provided with a hamus in the cell. Pronotum without 

 an anterior constriction ; rostrum short, reaching the mesosternum, 

 apparently three-jointed, first joint occupying a third part of the 

 length of head ; antennae tliick, cylindrical ; 

 pronotum trapeziform, laterally curved ; 

 anterior femora broad, beneath medially 

 provided with a small tooth, and between 

 this and apex denticulate, posterior femora 

 not anteriorly denticulate ; hemelytra 

 coriaceous ; membrane apparently with- 

 out veins ; tarsi subclavateaud apparently 

 two -jointed. 



147S. Odontobrachys niger, Fieb. Wien. 

 ent. MonatscJir. iv, p. 270, pi. vi. 

 fig. L (1860). 



Fig. 7. Piceous-black, shining ; antennae, ante- 



Odontohrachi/s niger. rior tibiae, and all the tarsi flavous, poste- 

 rior tibiae piceous ; abdomen beneath 

 moderately punctate ; hemelytra flavo-fuscous, margins blackish- 



