ANOPLOCNEMIS, 



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apical joint ochraceous, more. or less shaded with fuscous for a little 

 beyoud base ; extreme apex of scutellum ochraceous ; margins of 

 odoriferous apertures ochraceous ; posterior femora in male much 

 curved at base, thence strongly incrassated, inwardly broadly dentate 

 near apex, outer margin linearly serrate, iu the female only mode- 

 rately incrassate inwardly and outwardly finely linearly serrate, 

 moderately acutely dentate near apex. Abdomen beneath in male 

 with the second and third segments gibbous, and lobately tuber- 

 culateat their juuction ; iu the female gibbous but not tuberculate, 

 the centre of the posterior margin of the second segment slightly 



Fig. 210. — Anoplocncmis 'phasiana, (S . 



truncately produced ; in both sexes the segraeutal margins are 

 more or less distinctly ochraceous. 



Length 22 to 28 ; breadth between prouotal angles 7 to 10 

 millim. 



Hah. Sikhim {Ind. Mas.). Khtisi Hills (Cheiinell) ; Naga Hills 

 (Butler) ; Sibsagar (Lid. 2Ius.). Bomhsiy (Leith) ; Bar Ghat (Divon). 

 M-dlabar {Coll. 'Blst.). Bangalore (Camero^i). Trivandrum. Ceylon 

 ( Green). Burma ; Palon (Feci). Tenasserim ; Tavoy (Lid. Mus.). 

 Sinkip Isld. (lad. Mus.).— A\so found in the Malay Peninsula and 

 many islands of the Malay Archipelago. 



In Ceylon this species' as recorded by Mr. G-reen, both in the 

 adult and immature stages, occurs frequently on the young shoots 

 of Erythrina litliosperma, puncturing the extremities of the shoots, 

 thus causing them to wilt and witlier. On Mr. Green once 

 attempting to closely observe a male feeding, it ejected a jet of 

 fluid backwards to a distance of fully eighteen inches. The jet 

 appeared to proceed " «?> «no "(' Entomologist,' xxxiv, p. 115). 

 On the Bor Ghat, Mr. Dixon collected specimens on the flowers of 

 Phaylopsis parviflora Willd.* 



* HoT-E.—ifictis protractus, Herr.-Sch. Wanz. Ins. ix, p. 247 (1853), judging 

 from the description, is a synonym of Ano'plocnemis phasiana, Fabr. 



