AfiADUS. ]29 



and veins on costal area jet-black ; membrane hyaline, very in- 

 distinctly spotted with pale fuscous on apical margin ; head longer 

 than broad, spines at antenniferous tubercles long and prominent ; 

 eyes distinctly transversely produced ; antennae with the second 

 joint about four times as long as the first, third gradually thickened 

 from base to apex ; rostrum extending beyond the base of the 

 prosternum which is sulcate ; pronotum with the anterior margin 



Fig. 68. Aradus dignatus. 



distinctly broader than base of head but not extending beyond the 

 apices of the eyes, with six longitudinal carinations, the sublateral 

 ones more strongly curved, the two central ones least so, lateral 

 margins rounded and finely crenulate ; scutellum elongately tri- 

 angular, the base much snorter than the lateral margins; the 

 lateral margins elevated; corium at base slightly laterally arn- 

 pliated, membrane in <$ slightly passing the abdominal apex ; legs 

 more piceous than black. 



Length tf 4 millim. 



Hab. W. Bengal; Paresnath, 4000 to 4400 feet (Annandale, 

 Indian Mus.\ 



2902. Aradus antemissus, Dist. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. liii, p. 362 

 (1909). 



Black ; antennas black with the apical joint stramineous, its apex 

 ochraceous ; hemelytra resembling those of A. dignatus but with 

 the membrane more prominently spotted with pale fuscous ; con- 

 nexivum spotted with pale ochraceous ; head longer than broad, 

 spines at antenniferous tubercles long and prominent ; eyes trans- 

 versely produced but not so strongly as in A. dignatus ; antennae 

 somewhat short and robust, second and third joints distinctly in- 

 crassated, second about three times as long as first, third and 

 fourth subequal in length ; rostrum extending beyond the base of 

 the prosternum which is sulcate; pronotum with the anterior 

 angles more distinctly produced than in A. dignatus, anterior 



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