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fasciae ochraceous ; pronotum with three similar fasci;e, the 

 ceuti-al one straight, the two outermost oblique ; scutellum with 

 a small spot near each basal angle and a central levigate longi- 

 tudinal fascia ochraceous, extreme basal angles subt'oveate and 

 piceous ; corium with the base of lateral margins ochraceous ; 

 membrane piceous ; connexivum alternately ochraceous and 

 piceous: body beneath piceous; sternum with snblateral ochra- 

 ceous linear spots ; lateral margins of abdomen broadly dark 

 ochraceous, extreme margin spotted with pale ochraceous ; legs 

 pale brownish; antennae with the third, fourth, and fifth joints 

 piceous, first and third joints shortest and subequal in length, 

 fourth joint slightly longer than fifth. 



Length 5,, millim. 



Hah. North Khasi Hills (ChenneU). Ceylon (Lewis). 



Genus MENEDEMUS. 

 Menedemus, Dist. A. M. K. H. (7) iv, p. 429 (1899). 



Type, 31. viltatus, Dall. A species of doubtful habitat, supposed 

 to have been received from Africa. 



Distrihiition. Ethiopian ? and Oriental Regions. 



Allied to SeioGoris, but with the head a little longer and with 

 its lateral margins distinctly reflexed ; scutellum broader, more 

 evenly attenuate posteriorly. Besides these structural characters, 

 Menedemus, according to present knowledge, also differs from 

 Sciocoris in possessing a distinct and ornamental coloration of a 

 generally fasciate character. 



221. Menedemus hieroglyphicus, Dist. A. M. N. H. (7) iv, p. 430 



(1899). 



Brownish-ochraceous, thickly and darkly punctate ; head with 

 three discal levigate, linear, ochraceous fasciae, the central one 

 straight, the others slightly curved ; pronotum with five similar 



fasciae, and between the two 

 outermost on each side a 

 short basal fascia, and the 

 lateral margins ochraceous ; 

 scutellum with an elongate 

 spot near each basal angle, 

 the lateral and apical mar- 

 gins, a central longitudinal 

 fascia, and a transverse 

 central sinuate fascia cross- 

 ing disk levigate, ochra- 

 ceous ; extreme basal angles 

 subfoveate and piceous ; 

 corium narrowly ochraceous 

 at base of lateral margin, with a sublateral linear ochraceous fascia 



Fig. GO. — ]\lcncdcinus hievoglyphicus. 



