SCIOCORIS. 



12;^ 



with .1 tooth or forming a more or less distinct angle, lateral 

 lobes longer than the central lobe ; rostrum extending to or 

 passing the posterior coxse ; antennae five-jointed, first joint not 

 reaching the apex of head ; pronotum with the lateral tnargins 

 concavely sinuate and somewhat longly aad irregularly dentate ; 

 scutellum subtriangular, its lateral margins more or less sinuate ; 

 membrane with the veins reticulated ; sternum centrally suleate : 

 abdomen generally more or less centrally fiu'rowed near base. 



217. Orthoschizops assimilis, JJ'es/ic. 

 (Halys) in Hope Cat. Hem. i, p. 21 

 (1837);' Bist. P. Z. S. 1900. p. 809. 

 pi. Hi, f. 2. 



Brownish-ochraceous, punctured and 

 variegated with black ; lateral margins 

 of the pronotum serrated, the spines 

 somewhat long and irregularly placed, 

 pronotal lateral angles prominent ; scu- 

 tellum uith the apex greyish ; membrane 

 with black reticulated veins ; antenna? 

 and legs brownish-ochraceous. 



Length 18 ; breadth between pronotal 

 angles 9^ millim. 



Bab. "India'* {O.rford Mas.).—T\\e 

 type is figured. 



Fig. ()7. 



OrihoscJi isops assliii Uis 



Division SCIOCORAlilA. 



This division represents a small group of allied genera separated 

 sectionally by Stfil (En. Hem. v, p. 49, 1876), to which Atkinson 

 afterwards applied the name of Sciocoraria (J. A. 8. B. Ivii, 

 p. 11, 1888). Head clypeated, not, or seldom, narrower than the 

 base of the scutellum, foliaceously dilated, amplified before the 

 collum ; ocelli remote from the small eyes ; antenniferous tubercles 

 remote from the margins of the head, not distinguishable from 

 above ; basal joint of the anteunse not reaching the apex of the 

 head ; scutellum more or less narrowed from the base ; cou- 

 nexivum flattened, laminated. 



Siinopsis of Genera. 



a. Scutellum somewhat sharply narrowed to apex. Sciocoris, p. 12-"). 



b. Scutellum broad, more evenly attenuated 



posteriorly Mf.xkdemus, p. 127. 



Genus SCIOCOEIS. 

 Sciocoris, Fallen, Hem. S'ltec. p. 20 (1829). 



Type, S. terretis, Schrank. A Palsearctic species. 

 Distribution. Pala?arctic, Ethiopian, and Oriental Eegions. 

 Body oval, depressed, slightly convex beneath; head large, 

 flattened, rounded in front, the lateral lobes a little tlie longest 



