ACANTHOCORIS. 



385 



Length 19 to 21 ; bi-eadth between pronotal angles oi to 6 

 raillim. 



Hah. Burma; Karen WiW?, {Coll. Dist.). Tenasserim ; Houng- 

 darau {Fea) ; Mergui ; Tavoy {Ind. Mus.). — I also possess specimens 

 from the Malay Peninsula, Java, and Sumatra. 



Genus ACANTHOCORIS. 



Acanthocoris, Amy. Sf Serv. Hem. p. 213 (1843) ; StaJ, En. Hem. 

 iii, p. 70 (1873). 



Type, A. scahrafor, Fabr. 



Distribution. Ethiopian, Oriental, and Eastern Palaearctic Regions. 



Claval suture a little longer than the apical margin of the corium; 

 fourth joint of the antennae shorter than the third ; eyes small; 

 posterior tibia3 moderately dilated ; posterior femora incrassated, 

 their apices above with a short spine or tubercle ; corium with 

 the basal margins parallel, not rounded ; mesosternum not 

 sulcated. 



635. Acanthocoris scabrator, Fubr. (Coreus) Sijst. Rhyng. p. 195. 

 19 (1803); Burm. (Crinocems) Hmidb. n, p. 319 (1835); Amy. 

 S,- Serv. Hem. p. 214 (1843). 

 Crinocerus scabripes, Herr.-Sch. Wanz. Ins. xi, p. 18, f. 574 

 (1842). 



Euscous or brown, v^ith. numerous browuish-ochraceous points 



and suffusions ; antennae hir- 

 sute, the apical joint ochra- 

 ceous with its base fuscous ; 

 pronotum with the lateral 

 angles acutely produced, their 

 anterior margins serrate ; 

 coriiun with the basal lateral 

 margin spinously hirsute, and 

 with a very obscure paler 

 spot or suffusion on apical 

 area; connexivumwithochra- 

 ceous trans vei'se spots at the 

 incisures ; membrane pice- 

 ous : body beneath in female 

 ochraceous, speckled with 

 brown ; femora fuscous, the 

 tibiae brownish or castaneous, with a pale aunulation near base ; in 

 the male the body beneath and legs are much darker ; posterior 

 femora moderately incrassated, toothed or serrate on inner margin ; 

 rostrum reaching the intermediate coxae. 



Length 13 to 14^; breadth between pronotal angles 5 to 5i 

 millim. 



Hah. Sikhim (Ind. Mus.). Assam; Khasi Hills (Ohennell), 

 VOL.1. 2 c 



Fig. 226. — Acanthocorix scabrator. 



