PODISUS. 



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longer thau the central ; pronotnm deflected anteriorly, convex at 

 basal area, anterior lateral margins not denticulate, obsoletely 

 crenulate, lateral angles prodnced in straight subacute spines, 

 notched beliind before apex ; scutellum moderately long and 

 slender; corium with the lateral margin obliquely straight ; femora 

 unarmed ; ventral spine short and blunt. 



400. Audinetia spinidens, Fuhr. (Cimex) Mant. Lis. ii. p. 'It^ry 

 (17f<7): iJnll. (Picromenis) i/s^iZrw. i,p.9r) (18.51) ; 7W/. (Anna) 

 Faint. lad. Kcerl. iii, p. 10 (1868) ; SUV, Hem. Fabr. i, p. 16 (1868) ; 

 Dist. Biol. Centr.-Aiii., Bhynch. i, p. ?,o (1879). 



Asopiis geoiuetiicus, Burm. Hundh. ii, p. .380(1835) ; Ball. (Arma) 

 Tr. J?. ,^. V, p. 187, pi. 10, f. 2(184i)) 



Pentatoraa aliena, Wc^tiv. in Hope C(d. Hem. i, p. 40 (18.-!7). 



Audinetia aculeata, Ellenr. Nat. Tijdschr. Ncderl. Lid. xxiv, ii. 187. 

 pi. 1, f. 1 (1862). ■ • '1 ' 



Pale brownish-ochraceous ; apex of the third joint of antennte 

 and the fourth and fifth joints black, head with a "blackish punctate 



fascia on each side of cen- 

 tral lobe ; pronotnm with 

 a pale central broken levi- 

 gate line extending be- 

 tween the pronotal angles, 

 which are black and emar- 

 ginate, the posterior spine 

 beiag very small ; scutel- 

 lum with the apex and a 

 central apical line luteous ; 

 corium with the lateral 

 margins broadly luteous ; 

 membrane pale fuliginous : 

 body beneath pale ochra- 

 ceous, thickly and coarsely 

 punctate : abdomen with a 

 central broken black fascia, sometimes obsolete, and the stigmata 

 black ; tarsi piceous. 



Length ]3 to IG : breadth between pronotal angles 7 to 8g 

 millim. 



Ilab. Sikhim. Assam; Harmatti (.■!//. v'ii.^oyi Coll.), Kh;isi Hills 

 (CJiemiell). Bengal; Eanchi (L-vine). Bangalore (Cameron). — 

 A very widely distributed species, recorded from several islands of 

 the Malay jVrchipelago ; specimens fi-om. Fiji and Tahiti are in my 

 own collection ; not uncommon in East Africa and Abyssinia, and 

 recorded from INfexico. 



Genus PODISUS. 



Podisus, Hen-.-Schaf. Wcmz. Lis. ix, p. 296 (18.53); Stal. Of v. 



Vet.-AJc. For/i. 1867, p. 497; JDist. Biol. Centr.-Amer., Mync'h.i, 



p. 36 (1879). 

 Apateticus, Dall. List Hem. i, pp. 77 & 10-5 (18.51). 



Fig. 1(JU. — Ai'jlinrfia ,•</)/ ii ideas 



