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271. Genus TERENTIUS Stal 



Terentius Stal, Bid. Memb. Kaii. 286 (1869). 



Characters : A well-known and distinct Australasian genuscharacterized by iheconvex pronotuni 

 with no suprahumerals or dorsal lobes, a long heav}' posterior process which impinges on thescutellum 

 and tegmina, and a trilobed clypeus. Head subquadrate, twice as wide as long; base broadl}' sinuate; 

 eyes large, globular and protruding; occUi small, farther from each other than from the eyes and situated 

 about on a line drawn through centers of eyes; inferior margins of genae neari\' horizontal and slightly 

 flanged ; clypeus broad, trilobed, extending for half its length below inferior margins of genae, tip rounded. 

 Pronotum low, conve.x, unarmed; metopidium sloping, broader than high; median carina obsolete 01 

 only faintly percurrent; no suprahumeral horns; humeral angles robust, triangular and blunt ; posterior 

 process long, tectiform, impinging on scutellum and tegmina, tip acuminate and reaching as far as the 

 abdomen and to a pointabout half-wa\' between the internal angles and the tips of the tegmina ; scutellum 

 narrowly exposed on each side. Tegmina long, subhyaUne, often mottled, sometimes semiopaque; 

 basal and costal areas coriaceous and punctate; live apical and two discoidal cells; apical limbus broad. 

 Legs long and robust; hind tarsi longest. 



Type convcxiis Stal. 



Geographical distribution ; This genus is Hmited to the Auslralian and Archipehigic Regions 

 with the following described species : 



1. conterminus Walker, Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. I : i63. iiS (iBSj). 



curtulus Walker, Journ. Liiin. Soc. Zool. X : igo {1868). 



2. convexus Stal, Bid. Memb. Kan. 2^6. i (1869). 



East Indies, Aru. 



.Australia, Queensland, Rock- 

 hainpton, liiisbane, Cairns, 

 New South Wales, Tweed 

 River, South Australia. 



Xew Guinea, Bougainville. 



Xew (iuinea, 



XewGuinea, Batchian, Dorey. 



3. niger Funkhouser, Rev. Suisse de Zool. XLIII : 2. 194 (igSS). 



4. nubifascia Walker, Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. X : 191 (1868). 



5. piinctalissitnus Stal, Bid. Memb. Kan. 286. 2 (1869). 



spissus Walker MS (fiiie Distant iijkti. 

 pictipmnis Walker, MS. [fiJe ibid.). 



6. yediicltisWiiWier, [ourn. Linn. Soc. Zool. X : igo (1868). 



7. relrac/usWalker, Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. X : 190 (1868). 



8. ;-y/(T;;(ii Distant, .-\nn. Mag. .Xat. Hist. XVI : 96. 492 (1915).— P|. I 4, Xorth Queensland, Kuranda. 



fig. 240. 



New Guinea. 



East Indies, ^lorty. 



272. GENUS INSITOROIDES FUNKHOUSER 



Insitoroides l''unkhouser, Indian Forest RecordsXVTI : 3 (igSS). 



Characters : This q-enus was eiected to accommodate a single species represented b}' a uni(]ue 

 specimen which is now in the collcction of the Forest Research Institute of British ln<lia. It is a rather 



Note : Godini^ considered Tercittius to be synonymous with Nnrnia Walker, biit \ve are convinced that Xiirnia 

 belon.cjs in the Ccrcopidx and \ve are not recognizin.i;- it as a mcmbracid genus. 



