RAPHIGASTRID/E. 97 



punctate ; Stigmata small, beneath each a short, sinuate, impressed 

 line ; Connexivum punctate, blue-black interrupted with orange. 



Length, 5 6 lines. 



Common in August and September, on trees and bushes. 



FAMILY 9. RAPHIGASTRIDJE. 

 Genus 1. TROPICORIS, Halm. 



Head elongate, nearly flat ; Face widest just before the eyes, then 

 gradually a little narrower to the end, which is rounded ; margin of 

 side lobes delicately reflexed ; central lobe scarcely so long as the side 

 lobes, which sometimes meet and enclose its fine point. Antenna 

 long, slender ; the last two joints thickest ; 1st joint not so long as 

 the head ; 2nd a little longer than the first ; 3rd much longer than the 

 2nd ; 4th not so long as the third ; 5th fusiform, rather shorter than 

 the 4th, but longer than the 2nd ; 4th and 5th in thickness subequal. 

 Eyes large, prominent. Ocelli large, distant. Rostrum arising at 

 anterior margin, reaching to the 2nd joint of the abdomen ; base 

 broad, the remainder narrow, 3rd joint longest ; rostral channel 

 shallow, the sides anteriorly ending in a tooth ; the margin of the 

 head in front, beneath, with a channel extending to the eyes, 



Thorax. Pronotum hexagonal, much broader than long ; front as 

 wide as the head and eyes ; anterior margin concave ; anterior angles 

 produced and cut off obliquely behind the eyes, exteriorly produced 

 into a small tooth ; sides anteriorly very finely serrate, then very 

 sinuate, widely and nearly at a right angle divergent, spreading out 

 into a large, broad, projecting and up-curving process, which on the 

 anterior side is broadly rounded, but posteriorly the apex is produced 

 into a short tooth ; hinder sides long, sinuate ; posterior margin 

 across the scutellum straight; disk in front flat, deflected at the 

 same angle as the head, hindwardly on a level with the scutellum. 

 Scutellum \ as long as the abdomen, triangular ; base convex ; sides 

 sinuate ; apex narrowly rounded. Elytra: Corium ; anterior margin 

 sinuate, posterior margin straight ; Membrane with 6 long nerves. 

 Sternum: Prosternum ; on each side a transverse channel; Meso- 

 sternum with a central longitudinal keel, hindwardly widened. Legs : 

 tibi<e outwardly flat, the margins reflexed, forming a narrow, linear 

 channel ; tarsi long, 3rd joint longer than the 1st, 2nd short. 



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