PHRICODTTS. 80IOCOEI8. 125 



Griseous or flavesceut-griseous, pilose, remotely punctate and 

 more or less fuscously suffused, more particularly on basal area 

 of scutellum and apical marginal areas of the corium ; membrane 



Fig. 67. Pkricodus hystrix. 



pale greyish-brown ; oonnexivum greyish or pale ochraeeous, with 

 large dark spots at the segmental incisures ; body beneath and 

 legs pale greyish or ochraeeous, minutely sprinkled more or less 

 with fuscous. 



Length 6 to 6| millim. 



Hob. South India ; Coimbatore. South and Central Africa, 

 Madagascar and Mauritius. 



Mr. T. Bainbrigge Fletcher, who has sent me specimens from 

 Coimbatore, says " It is fairly common here at light and has also 

 been found on Gingelly plants (Sesamum indicuni)." 



Genus SCIOCORIS. (Vol. I, p. 125.) 



SCIOCOBIB LATEEALIS. (Vol. I, p. 126 & Vol. IV, p. 436.) 

 Add : Hal. South India ; Chikkaballapura (T. V. Campbell). 



3694. Sciocoris luteo-fasciatus, sp. n. 



Head pale castaneous-brown, thickly coarsely punctate ; pro- 

 notum paler in hue, somewhat less coarsely punctate, the lateral 

 marginal areas pale ochraeeous and with a central testaceous spot 

 in the anterior area ; scutellum palely ochraceous, with dense, fine, 

 dark punctures, a large testaceous spot or suffusion on basal 

 area, some minute pale spots on basal margin, a central 

 discal pale carinate line and the apex paler and almost 

 impunctate ; corium pale ochraceous, with dense, fine, dark 

 punctures ; membrane pale ochraceous or greyish, more or less 

 speckled with black ; connexivum ochraceous, with pale fuscous 

 spots at the segmental incisures ; body beneath ochraceous, two 

 dark submarginal fasciae ; legs and rostrum stramineous ; antennae 

 ochraceous; head a little longer than broad, apex convex, the 



