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PEISTATOMIU.'E. 



Geuus ^SCHROCORIS. 



/Esohrus, D(dl. List Hem. i, p. 220 (18.51), nom. pneocc. 

 ^schrocoris, Ber(ir. Ent. Nachr. xiii, p. 152 (1887). 



Type, JE. ohscurns, Dall. 



Distribution. Oriental Eegion. 



Head elongated, lateral margins slightly concave, apex truncate, 

 lateral lobes much longer than central and meeting in front of it, 

 apical angles obtusely acute ; antenna; ti^•e-jointed, basal joint not 

 nearly reaching apex of head ; rostrum passing the posterior coxse ; 

 pronotum more than twice as broad as long, its lateral angles pro- 

 duced in stout, somewhat cylindrical processes directed slightly 

 upwards and forwards, their apices emarginate and deflected. 

 Scutellum broad, short, its length much less than its width at base, 

 its basal area gibbous, its apex tuberculate : corium small and short ; 

 membrane with reticulated veins. Body beneath strongly convex, 

 abdomen with a small tubercle at the lateral posterior angle of each 

 segment ; mesosterniuu broadly sulcate. 



267. .ffischrocoris obscurus, Dall. (.Eschrus) List Hem. i, p. 221, pi. 8, 

 f. 4 (1851). 



Brownish- ochraceous ; head, apices of pronotal angles, a spot in 

 each basal angle, and the apical tubercle to scutellum brassy-black; 



Fig. 'J8. — JEschrovoris obscano^. 



body beneatli blaciv, with scattered brownisli-ochraceous elevations; 

 legs brownish-ochraceous, femora brownly pinictate, with base, 

 apex, and an annulation before apex black ; tibiie with base and a 

 central annulation black ; antennae and rostrum piceous. The 

 body both above and beueath is thickly and eoarselj^ punctate. 



Length 8 to 9 ; width between pronotal angles 7 to 9 millim. 



Hah. Sikhim. Assam ; Marglierita, Naga Hills {Doherty). 

 Burma ; Karennee {Fea). Teuasserim ; Myitta {DoJierty). — 

 The species was originally described from Java. 



