PIEZODORUS. 



Xezava pelliicida, Ellenv. Nat. Tijdschr. Neclerl. Ind. xxiv, p. 1.57 



f. 26 (1862). 

 Rliapliigaster oceaniciis, Montr. Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, (2) xi, p. 224 



(1864). 

 TthapUigaster exteiiuatiis >fe pallescens, Walk. Cat. Het. ii. ]}.'-j71. 



84, & iii, p. 568 (1867-8). 



Above pale greenish, or luteous tinged with greenish, thickly 



punctate ; pronotum with the 

 lateral margins ocliraceous or 

 reddish -oehraceous, with a trans- 

 verse pale or purplish fascia 

 between the pronotal angles, 

 where the punctures are more 

 sparse ; clavus with a small black 

 apical spot ; basal lateral margin of 

 corium and the connexivum pale 

 purplish or sanguineous ; membrane 

 colourless : body beneath and legs 

 pale luteous, a little more coarsely 

 punctate than above ; antennte 

 with the apex of the third, some- 

 times the whole joint, and the fourth and fifth joints purplish. 

 Length 8 to 10 millim. 



Hah. Sikhim; Afisam (Atkinson); Bengal. Bombay; Bor Grhiit 

 (Dixon). Ceylon (Lewis). Upper Burma (Coll. Dist.). — This species 

 is also distributed throughout the Malay Peninsula and Archipelago, 

 it is found in Japan, and is a somewhat common species in Austral- 

 asia (I possess specimens from Tahiti). It has also been recorded, 

 but I think erroneously, from Zanzibar and Abyssinia, the African 

 species being apparently F. pallescens, Germ. 



Fig. 142. 



Pie~odo)'us nihrofasciatus. 



Division MEN ID All! A. 



This division as here understood embraces a number of genera 

 which agree with the previous division Nezaria in having the 

 lateral angles of the pronotum rounded or subprominent, and the 

 abdomen always more or less distinctly spined at base, but differs 

 by the shorter aud broader head, which is neither distinctly 

 narrowed to apex nor prominently sinuate at lateral margins. 



tSi/noiDsis of Genera. 



A. Head about as loug as breadth between eyes, 

 or not longer, 

 a. Basal abdominal spiue tiibercnlous, short. 

 a. Lateral niavgius of prouotuni not sinuate. 

 r«\ Metasternuni moderately elevated. 

 a'. Head not refiexed at apex. 



a'K Rostrum reaching the posterior 



COXifi VCKSINES, p. 231. 



i''. Rostrum reaching the inter- 

 mediate coxae DuNNius, p. 231, 



l)-^. Head reflexed at apex Patbrcui.us, p. 233. 



YOL. I. Q. 



