STEACHIA. 195- 



318. Cinxia limljata, Fabr. fCimex) Si/st.Hkynff.-p. 176 (1803) ; Ami/. 

 4- Sen: (Stracbia) Hem. p. 127 (1843) ; Stal, Hem. Fabr. i, p. 30 



(1868). 



Indigo-black ; head ochraceous, with a broad central fascia, base 

 to inner margins ol: eyes, and a marginal spot above insertion of 

 antennae indigo-black ; pronotum with all the margins, a central 

 longitudinal fascia and a transverse fascia across anterior disk, 

 ochraceous ; scutellnm with the apex, central and lateral fasciae 

 ochraceous ; corium with the base of latei-al margin, connected 

 with inner angle and apical margin, claval margins and veins 

 ochraceous ; all these ochraceous markings are sometimes more or 

 less suftused with reddish-ochraceous : body beneath ochraceous, 

 with a double central and submarginal series of indigo-black spots, 

 a large spot of the same colour at base of apical segment ; legs 

 black, femora streaked with ochraceous ; antennae black. 



Length 13 to 16 millim. 



Hub. Assam ; Harmatti (Ind. litis.) ; Xaga Hills {Dohert)j). 

 Burma ; Kakhyen Kauri {Fea). Tenasserim ; Thagata(/^m); Tavoy 

 {Ind. Mas.). — Common in the Malay Peninsula and received from 

 Java and Sumatra. 



Genus STRACHIA. 



Stracbia, Hahn, Wanz. i, p. 180 (1831) ; Stdl., Stett. e?it. Zeit, xxiii. 

 p. 105 (1862). 



Type, S. a-ucigera, Hahn. 



Distribution. Oriental and Ethiopian Regions *. 



Elongately subovate ; head triangular, lobes of about equal 

 length, lateral margins strongly reflexed, basal joint of antennae 

 extending but little beyond apex of head ; pronotum sexangular, 

 anterior and anterior lateral margins reflexed, the lateral margins 

 strongly sinuate ; femora in male incrassate ; basal joint of posterior 

 tarsi shorter than the two apical joints taken together. 



319. Strachia crucigera, Hn/m, Wanz. i, p. 184, f. 9o (1831). 



Stracbia flammula, Ellenr. Nat, Tijdschr. Nederl. Ind. xxiv, p, 153, 



f. 23 (1862). 



Var. Stracbia strangailata, Wlk. Cat. Het. ii, p. 344. 90 (1867). 

 Stenozygum strangulatum, Leth. Sf Sev. Cat. Gen. Hem. i, p. 156 



(1893). 



Black ; head with one central small linear and two apical ochra- 

 ceous spots ; pronotum with the anterior and anterior-lateral 

 margins, narrowly, and a broad central fascia, ochraceous, a trans- 

 verse fascia on anterior area brownish-ochraceous ; scutellum 

 ochraceous tinged with carmine, a spot near centre of each 

 lateral margin and a subapical spot black ; corium with the basal 



* The West-African Fentatoma elegans, Pal. Beauv., constitutes a second 

 species of tbis genus. 



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