ACANTHOBRACHTS. 219 



its lateral margins roundly sinuate, posterior lobe broadly ridged at 

 base ; scutellum foveately impressed on disk ; corium moderately 

 ampliately rounded near middle ; membrane slightly passing 



Fig. 120. Nabis imissooriensis, 



the abdominal apex ; abdomen beneath thickly, finely, greyishly 

 sericeous. 



Length $ 9 millim. 



Hob. N.W. India ; Mussoorie. 



This species appertains to the subgenus jffiptus,' Hahn, and is 

 allied to the South-African N. (JEptus) hottentota, Eeut. 



Genus ACANTHOBRACHYS to replace Lorichius. 

 (Vol. II, p. 402.) 



Acanthobrachys, Fieb. Eur. Hem. p. 43 (1861) j Bredd. Mitt. Nat. 



Mus. Hamb. xxii, (2) p. 145 (1905). 

 Arbela, St&l, Hem. Afr. iii, pp. 38-42 (1865) ; Rent. Mem. Soc. Ent. 



JBclff. xv, p. 125 (1908). 

 Lorichius, Dist. (vol. ii, p. 402). 



Breddin (supra) pointed out the identity of the above genera. 

 Eeuter has advocated the substitution of the later name 

 Arbela, St&l, because Fieber, who described his genus Acantho- 

 brachys in his ' Die europaischen Hemiptera,' stating in a foot- 

 note it was "exotisch," had neither given nor described a 

 representative species. This certainly is a practice to be deplored, 

 but Stll himself very considerably pursued that practice in his 

 ' Hemiptera Africana/ where genera without types are frequently 



