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femora, bases and apices of posterior tibiae, and the tarsi dark 

 castaneous ; veutral spine long and slender, just passing the 

 intermediate coxae ; antennae ochraceous, apex of third joint, and 

 fourth and fifth joints excluding bases, fuscous. 



Length 6 to 7 millim. 



Hah. Sikhim (Atl-inson). Bombay (Leith). Burma ; Bhamo, 

 Karennee (Feci). Tenasserim ; Myitta (DoJiert)/). — Also distributed 

 throughout the Malay Peninsula and some of the ^^•estern islands 

 of the Malayan Archipelago. 



3G3. Menida varipennis, Westw. (Pentatoma) m Hope Cat. Hem. i, 

 p. 43 (1837); Hall. (Rhapliigaster) List Hem. i, p. 286 (1851) ; 

 Bredd. (Pvgomenida) E^it. Nachr. xxiv. p. 116 (1898) ; Stdl. En. 

 JTe7M. V, p"98(1876). 



Brassy-black, moderately punctate ; head witli three lines, the 

 lateral ones dislocated, and a spot before each eye ochraceous ; 

 pronotum with the anterior and lateral margins, and an anterior 

 discal fascia centrally broken, sometimes followed by some 

 scattered linear markings, oclu'aceous ; scutellum with a long 

 irregularly oblique spot at each basal angle and the apex ochraceous 

 or pale luteous ; corium with a pale luteous discal spot, and the 

 basal angle and margin dull ochraceous ; all the pale markings 

 levigate : body beneath black ; legs ochraceous ; lateral sternal 

 margins, coxae, lateral abdominal spots, two central discal series 

 of spots (two in series or sometimes three), and the abdominal 

 spine luteous ; antennae ochraceous. Abdominal spine reaching 

 the intermediate coxae. 



Var. Corium dull ochraceous with the apical marginal area 

 black. 



Length 6 to 7 millim. 



Hah. Sikhim {Atlcinson). Khasi Hills (Chennell). Tenasserim 

 (Atl-inson). — Also recorded from the Malay Peninsula and Java. 



364. Menida flavovaria, Dall. (Rhapliigaster) List Hem. i, p. 288 

 (1851) ; Stdl, En. Hem. v, p. 98 (1876). 



Black, thickly and finely punctate ; head with a few ochraceous 

 dots, which are sometimes absent ; pronotum with the lateral 

 margins, a spot at the middle of the anterior margin, a transverse 

 central discal spot (sometimes broken and sometimes absent), and a 

 spot at centre of basal margin ochraceous ; scutellum with a cruci- 

 form discal spot connected with base (sometimes broken), a spot at 

 each basal angle, and the apical margin ochraceous ; corium witli a 

 discal spot and base of lateral margin ochraceous : membrane pale 

 fuscous hyaline : body beneath black ; legs, basal abdominal spine, 

 and rostrum ochraceous : lateral abdominal spots and lateral 

 sternal margins luteous. Abdominal spine reaching the inter- 

 mediate coxae. 



Length 6 to 8 millim. 



Hab. Sikhim. Assam (Atlinson), Bombay (Leith). 



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