JUCUNDUS. 



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Genus JUCUNDUS. 

 Jucundus, Dist. A. M. N. H. (8) v, p. 143 (1910). 



Type, /". custodiendus, Dist. 



Distribution. India and Burma. 



Head longer than broad between the eyes, which are moderately 

 emarginate interiorly, in front of eyes almost triangular, where it 

 is prominently notched on each side and then narrowed to apex 

 which is angularly rounded, between the eyes two oblique fovea- 

 tions ; antennae with the first joint longest, about as long as the 

 posterior area or lobe of the pronotum, second, third, and fourth 



Fig. 78. Jucundus custodiendus. 



joints subequal in length ; rostrum scarcely passing the anterior 

 coxae ; pronotum moderately flat, not prominently deflected 

 behind the humeral angles, the anterior area or lobe short, about 

 one-third the length of posterior area or lobe ; hemelytra consider- 

 ably passing apex of abdomen ; anterior femora slightly thickened 

 and longer than the tibiae ; intermediate and posterior femora 

 about subequal in length, posterior tarsal claws inserted at apex of 

 tarsus. 



Allied to Gerris, but differing in the shape of the head and the 

 structure of the pronotum. 



5919. Jucundus custodiendus, Dist. A. M. N. H. (8) v, p. 143 (1910). 

 $ . Head and pronotum ochraceous ; eyes, narrow lateral 



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