392 



COEEID^. 



(343. Brunsellius smecticus, Dist. (Homoeocerus) A. 31. N. H. (7) 

 vii, p. 11 (1901). 



Ochraceous, thickly, coarsely, and darkly punctate ; antennse 

 fuscous, the apical joint luteous ; pronotum with a central pale 

 levigate line, the extreme lateral margins and aiigles piceous ; 



abdomen black, the connex- 

 ivuui, apical margin, and 

 two transverse spots on disk 

 ochraceous ; body beneath 

 and legs ochraceous ; ab- 

 domen with a series of black 

 segmental spots on each 

 lateral area ; antennaj with 

 the first and fourth joints 

 moderately incrassated ; 

 first, second, and third 

 joints almost subequal in 

 length, fourth shortest : 

 lateral angles of the pro- 

 uotum produced into very 

 small obtuse spines ; ros- 

 trum with the third joint shorter than the fourth. 



Length 13 ; breadth between pronotal angles 4 millim. 

 Hah. Burma ; Kuby Mines {Doherty). 



Fig. 230. — BnmscUius smecticus. 



Genus CLETUS. 



Cletus, Stal, Freg. Eur/. Itesa, Ins. Hem. p. 236 (1859) ; Mayr, Reise 

 Nov., Hem. p. 118 (1866) ; Stdl, En. Bern, iii, p. T") (1873). 



Type, C. trigomis, Thunb. 



Distribution. Principally in the Oriental and Ethiopian Regions ; 

 but also represented in the Xearctic and Australasian Regions. 



Body oblong, subcompressed ; head subquadrate, not promi- 

 nently or distinctly produced in front of the antenniferous 

 tubercles, its apex deflected ; anterior lateral margin of the corium 

 and lateral margins of the abdomen very minutely crenulate or 

 seri'uiate ; lateral angles of the pronotum acutely produced. 



€44. Cletus punctulatus, Westw. (Coreus) in Hope Cat. ii, p. 23 

 (1842). 

 Cletus femoralis, Kirby, J. Linn. Soc, Zool. xxiv, p. 94 (1891). 



Ochraceous, thickly covex'ed with dark castaneous punctures ; 

 head and anterior half of pronotum paler ; lateral margins of 

 head and corium, connexivum, a small spot near inner apical 

 margin of corium, body beneath, and legs, ochraceous ; a spot on 

 lateral area of each segment of the sternum and some central 

 spots to same, and a number of discal spots to abdomen, black ; 

 antennee with the basal joint reddish-ochraceous, second joint 



