SPH^BOBEMA. 35 



1512. Nectocoris stSli, Mayr, Verh. z.-b. Ges. Wien, xxi, p. 432 



(1871). 



Ochraceous, variegated with fuscous ; 



legs ochraceous, femora more or less 

 spotted or suffused with fuscous, the ante- 

 rior tibicB with three fuscous annulations ; 

 head with the disk distinctly ovally tumid, 

 but depressed before the inner margins of 

 eyes ; subbasal ti'ausverse impression to 

 pronotum medially subobsolete, but pro- 

 found at each end ; claval suture almost 

 as long as scutellum ; embolium of hem- 

 elyti'a a little paler in hue. 

 Fig. 22. Length 11 to 12 millim. 



Nectocoris stall. Hah. Burma ; Kaugoon {Fea). 



Genus SPH^RODEMA. 



Sphferodema, Zap. Ess. Hem. p. IS (1832) ; Montand. Bull. Soc. Sci. 



Bacarest, ix, p. 264 (1900) ; id. torn. cit. xii, p. 120 (1903). 

 Diplonychus, Amy. Sf Sere, {nee Lap.) Hem. p. 436 (1843) ; Mayr, 



Verh. z.-b. Ges. Wien, xxi, p. 43o (1871). 

 Appasus, Amy. Sf Serv. Hem. p. 430 (1843) ; Mayr, Verh. z.-b. Ges. 



Wien, xxi, p. 433 (1871). 

 Nervinops, Duf Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1863, p. 398. 



Type, /S. annulala, Fabr. 



Distribution. Ethiopian, Oriental, and Australasian Regions, and 

 Southern and Eastern Palaearctic Regions. 



Body depressed, more or less ovate or subovate ; head before 

 eyes subtriangularly but not conically produced ; rostrum with 

 the second joint longest ; pronotum trapeziform, the anterior 

 margin moderately sinuate, posterior margin subtruneate, lateral 

 margins nearly straight and moderately ampliate ; scutellum sub- 

 equilateral ; hemelytra with the membrane distinct but sometimes 

 very small, outer area moderately convexly ampliate ; anterior 

 femora incrassate, tarsi two-jointed ; anterior tarsal claws two, 

 sometimes very short. 



A. Body very broad ; greatest expanse of hemelytra together almost 

 equal to their length ; head as long as breadth bettveen eyes. 



1513. Sphaerodema annulatum, Fabr. (Nepa) Syst. Rhyng. p. 106 

 (1803) ; Duf. (Sphferodema) Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1863, p. 397 ; 

 Mayr, Verh. z.-b. Ges. Wien, xxi, p. 434 (1871). 



Sphaerodema rotundata, Laj). Ess. Hem. p. 18 (1832). 



Belostoma marginata, Gray, in Griffith's Animal Kinyd., Insect. 

 ii, p. 248, tab. xciii, fig. 4 (1832). 



Ochraceous or ochraceous-brown, the lateral margins of the 



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