418 COREID^. 



of inesosternum black, with a distinct canal ; legs pale yellow, very 

 minutely punctured with brown ; tarsi with the tips of the first 

 and third jomts and the claws blackish ; rostrum pale yellow, with 

 the apex black ; antennae pale yellow, with a brown line along 

 the upper surface of the first three joints." (Dallas.) 



Length G to 6| millim. 



Hab. North Bengal {Gamphdl, Brit. Mus.). Bombay; Bor 

 Ghat (Divon). 



678. Corizus semicruciatus, Motsch. Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc 1863, p. 77 

 Head, pronotum, scutellum, clavus, base, apex, and apical 



margin of corium pale brown ; corium pale greenish-white and talc- 

 like ; four spots on anterior area of pronotum, two smallest cen- 

 tral, one larger near each anterior angle, a central longitudinal line 

 on posterior pronotal area, ochraceous ; scutellum with a subcruci- 

 form levigate ochraceous carina ; legs ochraceous, femora with a 

 subapical brown annulation ; apices of the tarsi black. 



Length 4 millim. 



Hah. Ceylon (Lewis). 



679. Corizus brevicoUis, Motsch. Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 1863, p. 77. 



Allied to C. semicruciatus, but the thorax shorter and unicolorous, 

 subferruginous ; fuscous-punctate ; membrane at base with a 

 median rufous-testaceous spot ; apex punctured on each side with 

 piceous, an apical median spot translucent : body beneath rufous- 

 testaceous ; eyes prominent, piceous ; head rufous-ferruginous, 

 anteriorly deflected, shining, apex longitudinally ridged, the 

 elevated portion somewhat whitishly pallescent ; antennae and 

 legs cretaceous obscurely annulated with fuscous. 



Length 3 millim. 



Hah. Ceylon ; Nuwera-Ellia (vide Motschouls'ky). 



Division SERINETHARIA. 



Serinetharia, Stal, En. Hem. iii, p. 97 (1873). 



Anterior lateral margins of the pronotum distinctly angulately 

 emargiuate ; areolus at interior apical area of corium triangular. 



These insects are almost universally distributed ; the two largest 

 genera are Serinetha and Jadera, the first almost confined to the 

 Old, and the last entirely represented in the New World. In the 

 Palsearctic region their numbers are much fewer. 



Genus SERINETHA. 

 Serinetha, Spin. Ess. p. 247 (1837); Stdl, En. Hem. iii, p. m 



(1873). 

 Leptocoris, Hahn, Wanz. Ins. i, p. 200 (1831). 

 Pyrrbotes, Westw. (part.) in Hope Cat. il, p. 6 (1842). 

 Lygffioinorphus, Blanch. Hist, des Ins. iii, p. 116 (1840). 

 Tynotoma, A7tiy. Sf Sero. Hem. p. 220 (1843). 



Type, S. ahdominalis, Pabr. 



