CANTAO. 



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more or less truncate. Abdomen with a central basal sulcation ; the 

 exterior apical angles of the corium are elongately and acutely 

 produced. 



81. Cantao OCellatus, Tlmnb. (Clmex) Nov. Lis. Sp. iii, p. 60, f. 72 



(1784) ; Westw. (Callidea) in Don. his. China, p. 47, pi. 20. f. 1 



(1842) ; Ball. List Hem. i, p. 17. L (1851). 

 Cimex dispar, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iv, p. 81. 7 (1794) ; Don. Lis. pi. 13. 



f. 1 (1798) sec. Dall. ; Fahr. (Tetyi-a) Siist. Rhijny. p. 129. 5 (1803); 



Burm. (Cailidea) Handb. (ii) i, p. 394. 5 (183-5); Herr.-Sch. 



(Callidea) Wanz. Ins. iii, p. 99, f. 324 (1835) ; Germ. (Calliphara) 



Zeitschr. i, p. 123. 1 (1839) ; Blanch. (Scutellera) Hist, des Lis. 



iii, p. 158. 6, Hem. pi. 8. f. 2 (1810) ; Anuj. et Serv. (Cautao) 



mm. p. 29. 1 (1843). 

 Cantao rufipes, Dall. List Hem. i, p. 17. 3 (1851). 

 Stoll, Pun. f. 260, A et B. 



Ochraceous or reddish-ochraceous ; base and central fascia to 



head and antennce bluish- 

 black. Pronotum with some- 

 times two black spots near 

 anterior margin, sometimes 

 containing eight spots. Scu- 

 telluin usually with eight, 

 sometimes with only six, black 

 spots, all these spots variable 

 in size and usually with pale 

 ochraceous margins. Body 

 beneath with base of head, 

 disk of sternum, rostrum, 

 apices of femora, tibiae, tarsi, 

 central and lateral spots to 

 abdomen bluish-black. Lateral 

 angles of pronotum usually 

 produced in a strong curved spine ; in some specimens the spines 

 are practically obsolete. 

 Length 16 to 28 raillim. 



Hab. India, Ceylon, and Burma. Recorded from Delhi, Bombay, 

 Malabar, Ceylon, Sikhim, Khasi Hills 4500-6000 ft. {Chennell), 

 Sylhet, Karennee, Tenasserim. — Also found in China, the Malay 

 Peninsula, Java, Sumatra, and Borneo. 



In Ceylon Mr. Green describes this species as " gregarious, and 

 often found in numbers (20 or 30 together) collected on a single 

 branch of a tree." 



Mr. R. M. Dixon, of the Victoria and Albert Museum, Bombay, 

 has forwarded me the following information relating to G. ocellatus : — 

 " Occurs on the ' moon ' tree {Macaranga roxburr/hii). Its habits 

 are diurnal and very active. Pollinatiou in the ' moon ' tree seems 

 to depend entirely upon this insect, which, by means of its feet, 

 rostrum, and spines, conveys to the stigma the fertilizing pollen- 

 dust, frequently from a distance of two or three miles. It is 

 sparingly found on the Bor Ghat in April and May." 



18. — Cantao ocellatus. 



