HELKNIUS. 



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basal longer thau the lateral margius : the apical margiu of the 

 corium is bisinuated ; the median lobe of the head shorter than 

 the lateral lobes which meet in front of it, their margins without 

 .spines. 



ISO. Brachypelta aterrima. Foist. (Ciinex) Nov. Sp. Ins. p. 71 (1771) ; 



Si)pi. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (6) iii, p. 3o7, t. 9, f. 186 (1883) ; Atk. 



(Cydnu.s), /. A. S. B. hi, p. 50 (1887). 

 Cimex niger, T>e Geer. Mem. iii, p. 269 (1773). 

 Cimex tristis, Fahv. tSi/.^t. Ent. p. 716 (1775) ; id. (Cydnus) Sysf. 



Rhyng. p. 185 (1803) ; Am. ^- Sew. (Brachypelta) Hem. p. 90 



(1843). 

 CVdnus earbonai'ius, Fourcr. Ent. Paris, p. 217. 72 (1785). 

 Cydnus spinipes, Schranlx, En. Ins. Austr. p. 273 (1781). 



Oval, elongate, deep black, finely punctured ; base of vertex, 

 anterior disk of pronotum, and basal angles of the scutellum 

 smooth, the last a little elevated : body beneath levigate, the 

 lateral areas more or less granulate or punctate ; femora with 



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Fig. 51. — Brachypelfa atcrriviia. 



several ro\^"s of spinous hairs ; anterior and intermediate femora 

 with two apical spines ; anterior tibiae strongly amplified, the 

 apical area having eleven sti'oiig spines on the external margin and 

 four on the internal margiii and at the apex, several others on the 

 anterior and posterior disk ; trochanter, rostrum, and antennae 

 piceous. 



Length 10 to 13 niillim. 



Hah. N.W.P. : Hardwar {Atlcmson). Bombay {Coll. Dist.).— 

 Common to the Paloearctic Kegion, abundant in North Africa. 

 Queensland. 



Genus HEURNIUS. 

 Heuniius, Dist. Ti\ E. S. 1901, p. 105. 



Type, H. typicus, Dist. 



Distribution. Burma, according to present knowledge. 

 Body elojigate, apex of abdomen slightly attenuated, narrower 

 than pronotum. Head truncate anteriorly, the lateral lobes 



