TETRODA. 



299 



Subovate ; head with the lateral lobes long, acuminate, well 

 separated, lateral margins nearly straight ; antennas five-jointed, 

 basal joint not reaching apex of head ; pronotum with the 

 anterior angles laminately produced anteriorly into broad apically 

 acute processes, lateral margins obscurely crenulate ; scutellum 

 gradually nan-owing posteriorly ; membrane reaching apex of 

 abdomen ; connexivum exposed ; rostrum reaching the anterior 

 coxae ; meso- and metasterna centrally carinate. 



a. Lateral lohes of head lyoiiited and someivJiat divergent. 



474. Tetroda histeroides, Fabr. (Acanthia) Bnt. Si/st., Suppl. p. 526 



(1798) ; id. (Aelia) Sij><t. Rhyng. p. 189 (1803) ; Amy. Sf Serv. 



Hem. p. 178 (1843). 

 Aelia furcata, Fabr. Syst. Rhyng. p. 188 (1803) ; Herr.-Sch. 



(Phyllocephala) Watiz. Im. vii, p. 70, f. 738 (1844). 

 Megarhyiichus quadrispinosus, Westtc. in Hope Cat. i, p. 19 (1837). 

 Var. sumatrana, Ellenr. Nat. Tiidschr. Nederl. Ind. xxiv, p. 171 



(1862). 

 Teiroda bilineata, Walk. Cat. Het. iii, p. 494 (1868). 

 Stoll, Pun. f. 197. 



Ochraceous or dark brownish-ochraceous ; scutellum with a 



pale luteous fascia on each 

 side; antennie piceous ; mem- 

 brane pale greyish, with the 



^ , j\\ ' -'^ Y i veins brownish. 



^^^y-' .~~^--H I 1 I A variable species, some 



specimens being piceous 



above, with only traces of 



the luteous fasciae to the 



scutellum ; the legs piceous 



and the body beneath 



brownish-ochraceous. 



-c^- ini rr . J T , -7 Leugth 15 to 18 millim. 



Fig. rJl. — Idroda histeroides. ir i^ .-,m i ■ 



Hah. Sikhnn, Assam ; 



Naga Hills (Chennell). Burma ; Bhamo, Kareunee (Fea.). — Also 



common throughout the Malay Peninsula. 



475. Tetroda transversalis, Westic (Megarhynclius) in Royles Id. 

 Bot. Himal. p^ liv, pi. x, f. 7 (1839); Hall, List Hem. i, p. 356 

 (1851). 



Body above and beneath with legs dark fuscous-brown, inclining 

 to piceous ; membrane greyish-white, opaque, with the veins 

 brownish ; antennae piceous, apex of fifth joint obscurely ochra- 

 ceous ; head thickly and somewhat coarsely punctate, lateral lobes 

 obtusely pointed and directed outwardly ; pronotum with two 

 transverse black areolets on anterior area. 



Length 15 ; breadth between pronotal angles 7 millim. 



Hah. North India {Gaj^t. Boys, Brit. Mas.). 



