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ridge continued centrally to apex, the remaining area coarsely 

 darkly punctate; clavus longitudinally punctate, the corium 

 smooth ; sternum excluding the segmental margins thickly finely 

 punctate. 



Length 4 millim. 



Hob. Ceylon ; Peradeniya (Green}. 



Subfamily COLOBATHRISTIN^. (Vol. II, p. 32.) 



Malcida, StfU, Hem. Afr. ii. p. 121 (1865), 

 Malcinee, Bredd. Deutsch. ent. Zeitschr. 1907, p. 41. 

 Colobathristiuee, Horv. Ann. Mus. Hung, ii, p. 117 (1904). 



I do not propose altering my conception of this subfamily as the 

 opinions of taxonomists still appear to be in an unsettled condition. 

 Thus Malcida proposed by Stal (1865), evidently used for the 

 reception of his genus Malcus (vol. ii, p. 32), and advocated by 

 Horvath (supra p. 118, note), was subsequently discarded by Stal in 

 his En. Hem. p. 170 (1874) where he places Malcus under " Genera 

 et species Lyc/ceidarum incerti loci systematici." In placing Malcus in 

 the Colobathristinse, I am in agreement with Lethierry. My genus 

 Curupira (1888), however, has been shown to be a synonym of 

 Colobafhristes, Burrn., and I seem to have been clearly in error in 

 placing it in the Coreidse, and certainly wrong in including it with 

 the Leptocorisaria. Here again, however, there is almost a parallel 

 diversity of opinion, for Stal, who still remains our greatest au- 

 thority, in his " Enumeration of the Lygseidae " (1874), placed the 

 Berytinae as a subfamily of the Lygaeidae, though he had prevously 

 (1865) located the Berytida as a distinct family between the 

 Coreidao and the Lygseidse, this latter opinion now being almost 

 universally followed by Ehynchotists, though Van Duzee follows 

 Stal's earlier direction. 



Genus PHJENACANTHA. 



Phsenacantha, Horv. Ann. Mus. Hung, ii, p. 120 (1904). 



Type, P. biroi, Horv., from New Guinea. 



Distribution. Oriental and Malayan Eegions ; also recorded from 

 the Fiji Islands. 



"Head vertical, laterally not carinate, facial angle straight, gula 

 horizontal; eyes shortly stylate; ocelli strongly approximate, at 

 least four times more remote from eyes than from each other : 

 antennae longer than the body, fourth joint a little shorter 

 than the third, rarely of equal length or slightly longer : 

 rostrum reaching the intermediate coxae or nearly so, rarely short 

 and slightly passing the middle of the mesosternum, fourth joint 

 shorter than the third; pronotum anteriorly not or slightly 

 narrowed, the posterior lobe nearly twice as long as the anterior 

 lobe (in brachypterous forms no more than half longer); 



