COEIZUS. 



417 



676. Corizus rubicundus, Sign. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fi: 1859, p. 86 ; Ktrbi/ 

 (Rliopalus), J. Linn. Soc, Zool. xxiv, p. 97 (1891). 



Head and pronotum reddish-ocliraceous ; head sometimes with 

 a central hue at apes, and generally with the area of the ocelli 

 blackish ; pronotum with an anterior and posterior transverse 

 black fascia, both centrally broken ; a central line at base of head, 

 continued through the anterior prouotal fascia, and the posterior 

 margin of the pronotum ochraceous ; scutellum black, its apex 



Fig. 245. — (Jortius ruliicimdus. 



reddish or ochraceous ; corium ochraceous, its apical area more or 

 less reddish- piceous or reddish : body beneath red ; abdomen with 

 a series of luteous spots on each lateral area, the extreme lateral 

 margins alternately black and ochraceous ; legs castaneous ; the 

 head, pi'onotum, and scutellum coarsely punctate ; lateral margius 

 of the body, disk of body beneath, aud legs somewhat longly hirsute. 



Length 6 to Qk millim. 



Hah. Ceylon {Green). 



I agree with Kirby in considering Signoret's description some- 

 what loose and taken from a discoloured specimen. This appears 

 to be the commonest species of Corizus in Ceylon, or certainly the 

 one most commonly received from that island. 



677. Corizus bengalensis, Z»fl«. (Rhopalus)i/Aif^m.ii^p.528(1852). 



"■ Testaceous ; head with several black points and lines ; prono- 

 tum thickly and finely punctured with black, with the anterior aud 

 lateral margins im punctate, aud with a transverse black line, 

 interrupted in the middle close to the anterior inargin ; scutellum 

 somewhat acute at the apex, punctured with black and clothed 

 with long whitish hairs, the apex very minutely punctured, whitish ; 

 elytra transparent, nervures of the basal portion yellowish ; wino-s 

 transparent, iridescent ; back of the abdomen black, thickly and 

 minutely punctured, with the apical segment impunctate ; the disk 

 with two fulvous spots placed oue behind the other, and on each 

 side of the penultimate segment at its posterior margin a small 

 yellowish spot ; the last segment has the margius and a short 

 central streak yellow; margins yellow, indistinctly banded with 

 ferruginous : body beneath ochi'aceous ; abdomen impunctate, 

 clothed with shoi't pale hairs ; sternum thickly punctured : ceutre 



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