iEDNUS. 



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rostrum reaching or slightly passing the intermediate coxte. Pro- 

 notum with the anterior margin broad, produced truncately beyond 

 the eyes, the anterior angles subacute, lateral margins oblique and 

 sublaminately reflexed. Scutellum broad, about two-thirds o£ the 

 length of the abdomen, becoming narrower from about the base 

 to the middle and then regularly continued to the apex which is 

 rounded ; membrane with longitudinal veins, which become some- 

 what reticulated near apical margin ; femora beneath with a double 

 series of minute spines or tnbercles towards their apices. 



227. .ffidnus obscurus, Ball. List Hem. i, p. 145, t. 3, f. 5 (1851). 

 ^dnus similis, Haf/l. Stett. e?it. Zeit. xxix, p. 154 (1868). 



Above piceous or very darkly castaneous ; body beneath black ; 



a narrow lateral margin to 

 meso- and metasterna, and a 

 broad lateral margin to abdo- 

 men brownish - ochraceous ; 

 legs castaneous, tarsi and 

 rostrum ochi'aceous ; antennae 

 with the first four joints 

 piceous, very narrowly ochra- 

 ceous at base, fifth joint 

 ochraceous with its 

 piceous : membrane 

 brownish, with the 

 piceous : body above 



base 



pale 



veins 



Fig. 74. — Mdmis obscurus. 



very 



thickly punctate, more or less 

 rugulose on pronotum and scutellum ; beneath, the abdomen is 

 more finely punctate than the sternum. 



Length 8| to 10| ; breadth between pronotal angles 5 to 6 millim. 



Hah. Naga Hills {Chennell). Burma: Bhamo, Palon (Fea). — 

 Also received from the Malay Peninsula, and from a number of 

 the islands comprised in the Malayan Ai-chipelago. 



228. ^dnus ventralis, Ball. Tr. E. S. (n. s.) ii, p. 10, pi. i, f. 3 (1852). 



Ovate, rather convex, ochraceous, thickly punctured with dark 

 brown ; scutellum with an obscure central pale fascia on disk ; 

 membrane pale hyaline, with the veins darker; sternum and legs 

 ochraceous, the first somewhat sparsely darkly punctate ; abdomen 

 black or castaneous, the margins broadly ochraceous, the extreme 

 margin palest and with a small dark spot at the apex of each 

 segmental incisure ; legs speckled with brownish ; rostrum 

 ochraceous ; antennae brownish-ochraceous, the fourth and fifth 

 joints darkest. On the anterior disk of the pronotum there is a 

 transverse series of four or five small levigate pale spots, and there 

 is a similar pale spot in each basal angle of the scutellum ; abdomen 

 beneath thickly and finely punctate. 



Length 6 to 7g ; breadth between pronotal angles 4| to 5 millim. 



Hah. Sikhim (Atl-'mson). Naga Hills (Chennell). Dallas's 

 typical specimen was from Hong Kong. 



