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beneath, rostrum and sternum castaneous brown; abdomen 

 beneath, legs and connexivum ochraceoLis; corium brownish-ochra- 

 ceous, clavus (exclu ling inner margin) and the subclaval area to 

 corium greyish-white; membrane pale fuscous-brown; antennai 

 with the first joint a little shorter than head and considerably 

 shorter than second joint; head transversely impressed at poste- 

 rior margins ofeyes; anterior lobe of pronotum scarcely longer 

 than posterior lobe, but narre wer, more globose and with the ante- 

 rior angles shortly tuberculously prominent; posterior lobe with 

 the basai angles obtusely broadly subangulate, but very slightly 

 prominent; scutellum apically finely and somewhat longly por- 

 rectly spinous; rostrum with the basai joint reaching anterior mar- 

 gin of eyes, distinctly shorter than the second joint; membrane 

 not quite but nearly reaching abdominal apex; connexivum exposed 

 on each side of hemelytra; body and legs more or less finely longly 

 pilose. 

 Length 81/2 mill. 



Hab. : Bengal; Chapra (Mackenzie). 



ISDEGARDES gen. nov. 



Head broad, transverse, eyes large, completely extending across 

 the latéral areas of the head ; antennse with the basai joint much 

 shorter than the head but extending a little beyond its apex, second 

 joint slightly more than twice as long as first, slightly longer than 

 third; ocelli prominent, central, slightly behind the posterior 

 margin of the eyes; rostrum with the second joint much longer 

 than the first; pronotum with the anterior lobe subquadrate, longer 

 than the posterior lobe, the anterior angles laminately subangu- 

 larly moderately prominent, centrally longitudinally impressed, 

 posterior lobe less convex and wider than the anterior lobe, its 

 latéral angles subprominent; scutellum subtriangular, a little 

 foveately depressed before apex which is slender and acuminate ; 

 hemelytra elongate, their costal margins parallel, membrane rea- 

 ching abdominal apex with three cellular areas, the middle largest, 

 the apical narrow, elongate, subtriangular; anterior femora consi- 

 derably thickened, obtusely broadly angulate beneath a little betore 

 middle, anterior tibiae short, somewhat broadly compressed and 

 curved, intermediate and posterior legs simple, posterior tibiae 

 very slightly curved. 

 This genus is somewhat allied to Reduvius. 



Isdegardes melanocephalus sp. n. — Black; antennœ, pro- 

 notum, latéral margins of corium, rostrum, body beneath and 



