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reaching base) and the apex pale ochraceous ; corium pale dull 

 ochraceous, longitudinally punctate, the apical angles castaneous ; 

 membrane subhyaline, the veins a little darker ; body beneath 

 thickly greyishly pilose (imperfectly seen in carded typical 

 specimen) ; legs brownish ochraceous, posterior tibiae with three 

 broad dark anulations ; antennae greyish brown, first joint slightly 

 passing apex of head, second joint a little longer than third (fourth 

 mutilated in typical specimen) ; pronotum with the lateral margins 

 strongly sinuate, the posterior margin concavely sinuate before 

 scutellum, the posterior area or lobe much more strongly punctate 

 than the anterior area, the pale narrow margins impunctate ; legs 

 somewhat longly pilose ; rostrum imperfectly seen in carded 

 typical specimen. 



Length 6| rnillim. 



Hob. India (sic) ( Vienna Museum"). 



Genus ESMUN. 

 Esmun, Dist. A. M. N. H. (8) iii, p. 330 (1909). 



Type, E. typicus, Dist. 



Distribution. Bombay. 



Body oblong ; head about as long as breadth between eyes, 

 central lobe prominent and moderately projecting ; ocelli near 

 base a little nearer to eyes than to each other ; rostrum reaching 

 or just passing the anterior coxae, first joint not reaching base of 

 head ; antennae moderately robust, first joint scarcely reaching 

 apex of head, fourth joint incrassated ; pronotum broader than 

 long, before middle roundly narrowed to eyes, obsoletely trans- 

 versely depressed near middle, posterior margin moderately 

 concave, anterior margin nearly straight ; scutellum broad and 

 short ; hemelytra shorter and narrower than the abdomen ; corium 

 shorter than membrane at its greater central length, its apical 

 margin sinuate, membrane with distinct basal cells and scarcely 

 passing the base of the last abdominal segment ; femora moderately 

 incrassate, posterior tarsi with the basal joint shorter than the 

 second and third joints together. 



Near Dinomachus, Dist. 



2818. Esmnn typicus, Dist. A. M. N. H. (8) iii, p. 330 (1909). 



Head, antennae, rostrum, scutellum, abdomen above, and body 

 beneath and legs black ; base of fourth joint of antennae rusty 

 brown ; eyes and apices of the tibiae castaneous brown ; tarsi 

 pale ochraceous ; corium pale stramineous, base of clavus, two 

 very small spots at claval apex, and the apical margins of corium 

 (broadly and irregularly) black ; membrane hyaline, centrally 

 slightly tinged with fuscous brown ; antennae with the third 



