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COBEID.^, 



Genus CLETOMORPHA. 



Cletomovpha, Mmjr, Rehe Nov., Hem. p. 118 (1866) ; Stal, En. Hem. 

 iii, p. 75 (1873). 



Type, C. helhda, Stal, from the Malayan Archipelago. 



Distrihution. Ethiopian and Oriental Eegions. 



Closely allied to the preceding genus Cletus, but differing by 

 the structure of the abdomen, which has the lateral segmental 

 angles acutely produced. 



052. Cletomorpha hastata, Fabr. (Cimex) Mant. ii, p. 287. 88 (1787) : 



Stal, Hem. Fabr. \, p. 61 (1868). 



Dull ochraceoLis ; head, posterior areas of pronotum and corium 

 thickly darkly punctate, giving those areas a brownish appearance ; 



posterior area of corivim crossed 



from inner angle by a narrow, 



transverse, macular, very pale 



cS^ J\\ y^ V '^ J \. luteous fascia ; conuexivum 



'—^> U \/^^ a broadly spotted with fuscous ; 



membrane pale bronzy-brown ; 

 antenna) ochraceous, apical joint 

 short, eylindrically thickened, 

 and infuscated, basal joint in- 

 crassated, subequal in length to 

 third, second joint slightly the 

 longest ; pronotum with the 

 lateral margins and the margins 

 of the produced angles strongly 

 spinous, the produced angles terminating in a short infuscated 

 spine ; rostrum passing the intermediate coxae. 



Length 8 to 8| ; breadth between pronotal angles 4 to 4^ 

 millim. 



Hah. Karachi {Camming); Bombay (Leith) ; Calcutta (LuL 

 Mus.). 



053. Cletomorpha kirbyi, Dist. A. 31. N. H. (7) vii, p. 423 (1901). 

 Cletomorpha (r) denticulata, Kirhij, J. Linn, Soc, Zool. xxiv, p. Oo 



(1891), nom. prceocc. 



" Brown, granulated ; front of the thorax sloping and, as well 

 as the head, paler — in a smaller specimen intersected by a 

 whitish median line, and with the lateral borders and hind border 

 of the pale portion of the thorax whitish ; hinder part of the 

 thorax, scutellum, and corium darker brown, the latter \\ith a 

 narrow white fascia, hardly divided into spots, running from two 

 thirds of the length of the costa to the inner margin. Antennae 

 and legs testaceous; the first joint of the antenna) much thickened 

 but hardly as long as the second ; the third distinctly shorter, the 

 fourth much shorter, forming an oval club. Spines of the thorax 



Fig.- 2.32. — Cletomorpha, hastata. 



