ELASMOSTETHUS. 329 



rostrum testaceous, with the apex black : antennae testaceous, with 

 the apical half of the fifth joint black. 



Length 10| millim. 



Hah. North India (Brit. Mus.). 



539. Elasmostethus scutellatiim, Dist. (Clinocoris) Tr. E. S. 1887, 



p. 856. 



Body above ochraceous, thickly and coarsely punctate ; pronotal 

 spines rosy red ; scutelhim with a blackish central longitudinal 

 fascia extending from about base to centre ; antennae ochraceous ; 

 pronotum with the lateral angles straightly produced into subacute 

 spines, the apices of which are slightly reflexed backward and their 

 posterior margins somewhat sinuated ; membrane pale hyaline, 

 with reflections of the red upper surface of the abdomen : body 

 beneath and legs ochraceous ; sternum coarsely punctate. 



Length 8 ; breadth between pronotal angles 6 milhm. 



Hah. Naga Hills (Chenuell). 



540. Elasmostethus truncatulum, Walk. (Acanthosoma) Cat. Ilet. 



ii, p. 396. 18 (1867) ; Bid. A. M. N. H. (7) vi, p. 230 (1900). 

 Clinocoris crucigei'; Rent. Berl. ent. Zeitschr. xxv, p. 80 (1881). 



Eeddish -ochraceous ; head with some fine punctures, and with 

 two posteriorly converging luteous fasciae ; antennae luteous, second 

 and third joints subequal in length ; pronotum with the anterior 

 and anterior-lateral margins, an arcuate line behind the apical 

 margin, a central longitudinal fascia crossed cruciformly by a 

 transverse line near middle, luteous, levigate, the lateral angles 

 spinously produced and slightly recurved ; membrane hyaline, with 

 an irregular broad pale fuscous fascia ; connexivum with luteous 

 spots : body beneath with the lateral and segmental margins of 

 sternum, the abdominal margins (sometimes broken), a lateral row 

 of spots on each side, the mesosternal ridge and ventral spine, 

 pale luteous ; rostrum not extending beyond the posterior coxa) ; 

 lateral margins of the pronotum distinctly sinuated ; exterior 

 margin of corium beyond middle roundly amplified towards apex. 



Length 6| to 7 ; breadth between pronotal angles 6| millim. 



Hah. Darjeeling {Renter) : Assam ; Sibsagar {Coll. Dist.). 



Walker's description of this species is particularly insufficient. 



541. Elasmostethus lineatum, Ball. (Acanthosoma-Sastragala) Tr. 



E. S. V, p. 194 (1849) : Atkins. (Sastragala) J. A. S. B. Iviii, p. 28 

 (1889); Dist. A. M. N. H. (7) vi, p. 230 (1900). 

 Acanthosoma binotata Walk. Cut. Het. ii, p. 395. 16 (1867). 

 Clinocoris maculata, Dist. Tr. E. S. 1887, p. 355. 



Above dusky testaceous, strongly punctured with brown ; head 

 yellow, with a brown line on each side of the central lobe, and a 

 row of brown punctui-es on each side of the lateral lobes ; pronotum 

 with the lateral spines acute, slightly recurved, pitchy brown, a 



