188 



PE]S'TATOMIDJE. 



b". Pronotum with the anterior mar- 

 giu moderately truncate and 

 neither elevated nor callous. . . . Bagbada, p. 193. 

 b. Basal joint of antennae extending be- 

 yond apex of" head. 

 a'. Basaljoint of posterior tarsi as long as 

 the second and third j oints together ; 

 lateral margins of pi'onotum not 



sinuate Cixxia, p. 194. 



b'. Basal joint of posterior tarsi shorter 

 than second and third joints together ; 

 lateral margins of pronotum sinuate. Strachia, p. 195. 



Geuus GYNENICA. 

 Gynenica, Ball. List Hem. i, p. 180 (1851). 



Type, O. man/inella, Dall., a South-Africau species. 



Distribution. Ethiopian and Oriental Regions, 



Body elongate-ovate : head elongate, tapering gradually to apex, 

 lobes equal in length, the central with its apex slightly prominent ; 

 antennae with the basal joint not reaching apes of head ; rostrum 

 reaching the base of the abdomen : lateral angles of pronotum 

 produced into strong acute spines directed forward and upward ; 

 seutellum triangular, longer than broad, its apex subacute, not 

 extending beyond the middle of abdomen ; membrane with longi- 

 tudinal veins. 



309. Gynenica affinis, Di.^t. Enf. Month. Mtuj. xvi, p. 202 (1880). 



Chocolate-brown ; central lobe of head, anterior area of pro- 

 notum, lateral and apical areas 

 of seutellum, connexivura, 

 body beneath, and legs stra- 

 mineous ; body above punc- 

 tate, the corium most thickly 

 and the seutellum most 

 sparingly so ; prouotal angles 

 produced into long acute 

 black spines, slightly directed 

 forward ; antennae fuscous ; 

 sternum thickly punctate ; 

 abdomen almost impunctate ; 

 rostrum greenish-oehraceous, 

 its apex black. 



Length 9 to 10; breadth 

 'F\g.\V2. — Gi/ncnka affinis. between ' pronotal angles 6 



millim. 



Hah. Sikhim. Bombay (Leith). Calcutta. 



Atkinson included G. ma rc/ineUa, DaW., from an unknown locality. 

 Dallas had no habitat for his type, but I was able in 1880 to 

 record the species as belonging to South Africa. 



