ISOTOBITUS. 371 



apex ; corium browu, obscurely and faintly pilose ; membrane 

 brassy-brown ; abdomen above black, with inconstant luteous 

 markings : body beneath and legs brassy-black, anterior and 

 intex'mediate tibise with their apical halves brownish, all the tarsi 

 dull luteous ; posterior femora considerably iucrassated, finely 

 granulous, inwardly obscurely tuberculate, and with a series of 

 acute tubercles on upper surface, beneath with a strong and 

 curved spine a little beyond middle, preceded and followed by 

 some smaller spines ; posterior tibiae moderately curved, their 

 inner margin denticulated. 



Female. Differs from the male in being uniformly pale brown 

 above, and also paler in hue beneath ; legs also generally paler 

 than in the other sex. 



Length 23 to 30 ; breadth between pronotal angles 8 to 9 

 millim. 



Hah. 8ikhim {Ind. Mus.) ; Mungphu {Atlinson Coll.). Khasi 

 and Naga Hills {Chemiell). 



014. Notobitus meleagris, Fabr. (Cimex) Mant. ii, p. 207. 179 (1787) ; 

 Wolff (Lygfeus), Icon, i, p. 2-3, f. 23 (1800) ; Burm. (Nematopiis) 

 Handb. ii, p. 337 (1835) ; Hen-.-Sch. Wmiz. Ins. vi, p. 79, f. 6o0 

 (1842) ; Amy. ^- Sew. Hem. p. 200 (1843). 

 Stoll, Pun. ff. 213 Sz 278. 



Blackish-olivaceous, corium becoming a little browner on its 

 apical area ; tarsi, anterior and intermediate tibiae, apices of the 

 anterior and intermediate femora, and the bases of the posterior 

 femora, luteous or ochraceous ; antennae blackish, basal area of 

 fourth joint luteous ; posterior femora in the male extending 

 considerably beyond the apex of the abdomen, with a long spine 

 beyond middle of inner surface, followed by some smaller spines ; 

 posterior tibiae in the male with their inner margins strongly 

 serrate ; abdomen above black, with two ochraceous spots on each 

 lateral margin before apex. 



Length 22 to 25 ; breadth between pronotal angles 6 to 7 

 millim. 



Hah. Nilgiri Hills {Hamjjson). China {Coll. Dist.). — Also re- 

 corded from several islands in the Malayan Ai'chipelago. 



Var. Bases of both third and fourth joints of antennae luteous. 



Length IS to 23 millim. 



Hah. Bombay {Leitli). Ivha'si Hills {ChcnneU). Burma; 

 Eangoon {Brit. Mus.), Bhamo, Teinzo {Fea). 



015. Notobitus dor salis, ll'esUu. (Nematopus) in Hope tWA ii, p. 13 

 (1842). 



Brownish-ochi'aceous ; antennae with the bases of the second, 

 third, and fourth joints luteous ; abdomen above reddish- 

 ochraceous, its apex and some incisural spots to connexivum 

 black : body beneath pale castaneous, lateral margins of abdomen 



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