GESTROIELLA. 



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straightly and laterally, not backwardly produced; anterior femora 

 considerably less dilated ; corium much less rugose and with its 

 anterior marginal area a little less convex, apex of membrane 

 narrower and less broadly convex ; colour and markings very 

 similar. 



Length 22 to 23 ; breadth between pronotal angles 9 to 9^ millim. 



Hah. Assam {Oxford Mus.). Burma ; Karennee (Feci). 



By the kindness "of Prof. Poulton of Oxford and Dr. Gestro of 

 Genoa, T have been enabled to compare the types of Hope and 

 Moutandon and to establish their common identity. 



Genus GESTROIELLA. 



Gestroiella, Montand. Ann. Mm. Civ. Gen. xxxvii, p. 371 (1897). 



Type, Gr. limnocoroides, Montand. 



Distribution. Burma. 



Subrotundate ; head rather longer than the breadth between 

 eyes, which are elongate and posteriorly immersed in the anterior 

 lateral margins of the pronotnm, rounded in front and posteriorly 

 elongated, its central basal margin truncate ; pronotum broad, 

 its lateral marginal areas ampliated, its posterior angles acuminate, 

 its posterior margin ridged ; scutelknn broad, subtriangular ; 

 hemelytra with the membrane obsolete, the longitudinal suture 

 very distinctly notched beyond middle, the basal area marginally 

 convexly rounded and covering abdomen, and then obliquely 

 narrowed to apex exposing connexivum, the segments of which 

 are bispinous ; anterior femora in the male strongly dilated and 

 concavely sinuate anteriorly ; anterior tibi£e strongly arcuate 

 and internally broadly dentate beyond middle, intermediate and 

 posterior tibiae internally clothed with line long hairs. 



1500. Gestroiella limnocoroides, Montand. Ayin. Mus. Civ. Gen. 

 xxxvii, p. .371 (1897). 



Above fuseous-bi'own, with three longitudinal fascia? to head 

 and two irregular discal fascise to pro- 

 notum dull castaneous; body beneath 

 pals brown, legs beneath and mottlings 

 to their upper surface pale castaneous ; 

 body depressed, longer than broad ; 

 pronotum with a series of transverse 

 striag behind the posterior prolongation 

 of head ; scutellum transversely ridged 

 anteriorly ; hemelytra, excluding lateral 

 marginal areas, subverrucose ; con- 

 Fig. Ti. -Gestroiella nexivum strongly spinous. 



limnocoroides. Length 17 to 19 ; greatest breadth 



13i to 14i milUm. 



Hah. Burma ; Karennee {Fea). 



Montaudon's type is here figured. 



