120 



PENTATO-MID.D. 



and meeting just in front of the central lobe, the margins lami- 

 nate ; rostrum about reaching the posterior coxae ; pronotum with 

 the lateral margins laminate and with a more or less distinct 

 transverse discal impression ; scutellum gradually narrowed 

 posteriorly, margins very slightly sinuate ; membrane witli the 

 veins simple ; pro- and mesosterna furrowed. 



218. Sciocoris indicus, Dall. List Hem. 1, p. 1:12 (1851). 



Pale oehraceous, thickly, coarsely, darkly punctate ; head with 

 two distinct short strife on disk, and a similar striation at base a 

 little before each eye; antemife with the iirst and second joints 

 oehraceous, the remainder piceous ; pronotum with a cen- 

 tral levigate line extending 

 through the scutellum ; apex 

 of scutellum pale greyish- 

 ochraceous ; connexivum 

 oehraceous, spotted with 

 piceous ; membrane fuligi- 

 nous, hyaline: body beneath 

 jHinctured as above, but a 

 little paler in hue ; sternum 

 with a narrow pale fascia on 

 each lateral area ; abdomen 

 with the disk piceous, gra- 

 dually narrowing towards 

 apex, where it contains a 

 central pale line, and with a ^ubapical black spot ; an indisti)ict 

 pale submorginal fascia on each side. 

 Length 5| to 6 millim. 



Hah. North India {Brit. Mus.). Malabar {CoU. Dint.). Coonoor 

 {Brit. Mas.). 



219. Sciocoris lateralis, Fieb. Rhyndi. p. 21 (1851). 



This species differs from S. indicus, Dall., by the following 

 characters : — the antennae are brownish-yellow, third joir.r brow u 

 above, fourth yellowish at the base, above brown like the entire 

 fifth joint ; on the slightly curved margins of the pronotum is a 

 lono-itudinal three-cornered whitish spot, the posterior corner of 

 which almost reaches the humeral angles, the inner corner resting 

 on the transverse furrow. 



Length 4^ millim. 



Hab. India (" Aus Hinterindien " — Fieher). Coonoor {Brit. 

 3£ub:). 



220. Sciocoris lewisi, Dist. (Menedemus) A. M. N. H. (7) iv, p. 429 



(1SU9). 



Oehraceous, thickly covered with blackish punctures ; head 

 with the narrow lateral margins and three discal, linear, levigate 



Fig. 68. — Sciocoris indicus. 



