228 PEXTATOMID.Ti. 



365. Menida apicalis, DaU. (Rbaphio'aster) Lid Hem. i,p. 1^85 (1851) ; 

 StcU (Eaphigaster), En. Hem. v,p. 129 (1876). 



" Above pale greyish olive. Head with six black punctured 

 lines on the anterior portion, which unite more or less on the 

 vertex, making that part nearly black, with irregular pale spots. 

 Pronotum rather thickly punctured with black, the punctures 

 arranged somewhat in transverse lines, with the anterior portion 

 of the disk blackish, the anterior and lateral margins with a narrow 

 whitish edge. Scutellum rather thicldy punctured with black, 

 with a small orange spot in each basal angle, a large round black 

 spot in the middle of the base, and a black spot on each lateral 

 margin near the apex. Coriaceous portion of the elytra rather 

 thickly punctured with black, with the apex and a submarginal 

 spot near the middle black; membrane transparent, brownish. 

 3Iargins o£ the abdomen variegated with black and yellow, very 

 thickly punctured. Abdomen beneath greyish testaceous, with 

 the sides rather thickly and strongly punctured with black ; ventral 

 spine long, reaching the intermediate coxae. Breast testaceous, 

 thickly punctured with black. Legs testaceous, thickly punctured 

 with black ; tarsi with the apical joint brown. Eostrum testaceous 

 with the tip black. Antenna? with the three basal joints testaceous ; 

 fourth and fifth black, with the base testaceous." (Dallas.) 



Length 9 millim. 



ffab. North India {Boys Coll., Brit. Mus.). 



:366. Menida histrio, Fahr. (Cimex) Mant. Ins. ii, p. 296 (1787); StM 

 ( Antestia), Hem. Fabr. i, p. 34 (1868 ) ; id. En. Hem. v, p. 98 (1876). 

 Rhapliigaster concinnus, Dall. List Hem. i, p. 285 (1851). 

 llhaphigaster stracliioides, Walk. Cat. Het. ii, p. 365. 63 (1867). 



Ochraceous, sparingly blackly punctate ; head with the margins 

 and four longitudinal lines blackly punctate ; pronotum with an 

 anterior submarginal black line and two transverse annulate black 

 markings on anterior area ; scutellum with a spot in each basal 

 angle and the apex reddish ochraceous, an anterior discal spot 

 and one on each lateral margin a little before apex black ; corium 

 with the disk more or less greyish-olivaceous, the apical area 

 reddish-ochraceous, containing a black spot ; conuexivum ochra- 

 ceous spotted with black ; membrane colourless : body beneath, 

 rostrum, and legs ochraceous ; a broad sublateral margin to 

 sternum and abdomen and a central abdominal series of spots 

 black ; antennae ochraceous. Ventral spine reaching the inter- 

 mediate coxae. 



Length 6| to 8 millim. 



Hah. Calcutta. Bangalore {Lid. JIns.). Burma ; Bhamo, 

 Schwego-Myo {Fea). — Also received from China and Formosa. 



367. Menida distincta, Dist. Tr. E. S. 1879, p. 122 ; id. Sec. Tarkand 

 yiiss., lihynch. p. 6, f. 3 (1879). 



Luteous, covered with strong greenish-black punctures ; head 



