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not reaching apex of head, second shorter than either third or 

 fourth, which are subequal in length, fifth scarcely shorter than 

 fourth ; pronotura rugosely punctate, the lateral margins remotely 

 crenulate, and somewhat strongly sinuate, the posterior lateral 

 angles prominent and inwardly longitudinally depressed, before 

 anterior margin two transverse, obscurely opaque, slightly punctate 

 cicatrices ; scutellum transversely rugosely punctate, the apex 



Fig. 74. Anasida orientalis. 



truncately rounded ; corium opaque, finely punctate, the costal 

 area more coarsely and thickly punctate ; membrane moderately 

 passing the abdominal apex ; rostrum reaching the intermediate 

 coxa3 ; sternum coarsely and somewhat sparingly punctate, the 

 abdomen thickly and rugosely punctate; legs unarmed, tibiae above 

 longitudinally sulcate. 



Length, d 17, $ 18 millim. 



Hall. Bombny Province ; Dharwar. 



This first discovered Oriental species of the genus Anasida, 

 hitherto regarded as purely Ethiopian, was found by Dr. Harold 

 Mann among stones in a railway-cutting. 



A. orientalis is allied to A. funebris, Dist., from Natal, and is 

 the first species of the genus described from outside the Ethiopian 

 region. 



Genus CANTHECONA. (Vol. I, p. 248 & Vol. IV, p. 451.) 

 CANTHECONA BOBUSTA. (Vol. I, p. 250.) 

 Add : Hob. Ceylon (J. C. F. Fryer). 



Subfamily TESSARATOMIN^. 



(Vol. I, p. 256 & Vol. IV, p. 456.) 



Genus TESSARATOMA. (Vol. I, p. 257.) 

 TESSARATOMA NIGRIPES. (Vol. I, p. 257.) 

 Stebbing (Ind. For. Mem. i, p. 21, 1910) has recorded this 

 species as an enemy to " lac" 



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