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Genus DORPIUS. 

 Doi-pius, Dist. Tr. E. S. 1900, p. 164. 



Type, B. tt/picus, Dist., an African species received from the 

 Congo. 



Distribution. Ethiopian and Oriental Regions. 



Body elongate, subovate, moderately convex beneath ; head 

 ovate, lateral margins laminate, slightly recurved upwardly, lateral 

 lobes a little longer than the central ; rostrum reaching the inter- 

 mediate coxae ; antennae five-jointed, the third joint very short, 

 basal joint not reaching the apex of the head. Pronotum with the 

 lateral margins convexly laminate, slightly recurved upwardly, 

 anterior margin much wider than head, its apical angles acute and 

 forwardly produced. Seutellum more than half the length of 

 abdomen, attenuated posteriorly ; membrane with longitudinal 

 veins ; anterior femora spined beneath ; meso- and inetasterna 

 centrally furrowed. 



222. Dorpius indicus, Dist. Tr. E. S. 1900, p. IGo, ^\. ii, f. 4. 



Ochraceous, finely and thickly punctate ; five transverse spots 



on anterior disk of pronotum, 

 a spot at each basal angle and a 

 central fascia to seutellum im- 

 ])uncl:ate ; antenna with the 

 first, second, and third joints 

 ochraceous, apex of the third 

 and the whole of the foui'th 

 and fifth joints, excluding their 

 extreme apices, fuscous : body 

 beneath with a broad sublateral 

 series of brown punctures, on 

 the inner side of which is a 

 segmental series of pale levi- 

 gate spots ; stigmata piceous ; 

 membrane pale fuscous, its 

 apical margin greyish ; sternum coarsely punctate ; femora finely 

 speckled with brownish. 



Length 10 ; breadth between pronotal angles 5 millim. 



Hah. Sind {Coll. Dist.). Punjab {Harford, Brit. Mus.). 



Genus LAPEIUS. 



Laprius, StdJ, Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Fork. 1861, p. 200. 



Type, L. gastricus, Thiinb., from Japan and China. 



Distribution. Oriental and Eastern Palaearctic Kegions. 



Head somewhat narrowed in front, subovate, almost as long as 

 the pronotum, lateral margins moderately reflexed and laminate, 

 a little sinuate in front of eyes, lateral lobes a little longer than 

 the central lobe, but entirely separate at their apices ; a small spine 



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Fig. 70. — Dorpius indicus. 



