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side of basal angle of membrane, the apical angle of corium 

 piceous ; membrane pale brownish, the upper margins paler, and 

 with a small but very pale spot near apical angle of corium ; 

 prosternum ochraceous, blackly punctate ; meso- and metasterna 

 piceous, the latter with two marginal lines and the posterior 

 margin ochraceous and blackly punctate ; abdomen beneath 

 piceous; legs orange-yellow, sparingly, finely, blackly punctate, 

 apices of the tibiaa black; first joint of antennae thickest and 

 shorter than head, second and fourth subequal in length, each a 

 little longer than third joint ; prouotum transversely impressed 

 near middle, before which it is slightly convex ; rostrum slightly 

 passing the anterior coxae ; anterior femora shortly spined 

 beneath ; membrane very slightly passing the abdominal apex. 



Length 6| millim. 



Hob. Bengal ; Pusa (Lefroy). 



Allied to A. sparsus, Dist. (vol. ii, p. 81). 



2846. Aphanus suratensis, Dist. A. M. N. H. (8) iii, p. 338 (1909). 



Head, pronotum, and scutellum black ; lateral pronotal margins 

 (not quite reaching base) ochraceous, two central spots on basal 



Fig. 35. Aphanus suratensis. 



area of pronotum reddish ochraceous ; extreme apex of scutelluna 

 ochraceous ; hemelytra black ; corium with the outer claval margin, 

 (more or less), the costal margin for about two-thirds from base 

 with an inner elongate spot near its termination, and a large round 



