Mr. W. L. Distant 07i Pirating. 283 



Ectomocoris corcUger. 



Ectomocoris covdiqer, Stal, (Efv. Vet.-Ak. Forli. 1866, p. 256. 

 Pirates adjimctus, Walk. Oat. Het. vii. p. 114. n. 67 (1873). 



Ectomocoris higuttulus. 



Ectomocoris higuttulus, StSI, (Efv. Vet.-Ak. Forh. 1870, p. 69L>. 

 Pirates caliyimsits, Walk. Cat. Het. vii. p. 12.3. n. 92 (187-3). 



Ectomocoris decoratus. 



Pirates decoratus, StSl, Anti. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1863, p. 57. 

 Pirates decorellus, Walk. Cat. Het. vii. p. 129. n. 110 (1873). 

 Sirthenea decorella, Leth. & Sev. Cat. Gen. Hem. t. iii. p. 129 (1896). 



Ectomocoris truculentus. 



Pirates trticidentus, Stal, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1863, p. 56. (Immature 



form, type in Brit. Mus.) 

 Eumerus fasciola, Rent. Act. Soc. Sc Fennic. xii. p. 315 (1881). 



Ectomocoris J) ictus y sp. n* 



Head, pronotum, and scutellum black, sliining, posterior 

 lobe of pronotum more ot less piceous brown j corium and 

 membrane piceous, opaque; apex of clavus connected with a 

 lunate spot on corium, a spot near base of membrane, and 

 basal margin of membrane at apex of corium, stramineous j 

 connexivum, coxse, legs, and rostrum ochraceous ; sternum 

 piceous, abdomen castaneous ; lateral margins of meso- and 

 metasterna and lateral margins of abdomen stramineous; 

 connexivum above and beneath spotted with castaneous ; 

 basal joint of antennae castaneous, remaining joints fuscous ; 

 antenna-, tliickly and finely pilose ; legs longly pilose ; ante- 

 ' rior lobe of pronotum distinctly finely centrally sulcate, 

 obscurely longitudinally sulcate on lateral areas | body 

 beneath finely but sparingly tomentose. 



Long. 14-15 millim. 



Bab. Brit. East Africa: Athi River (C. 8. Betton, Brit. 

 Mus.). 



Genus Pirates. 



Pirates atromaculatas. 



Cleptocoris atromacnlatus, Stal, CEfv. Vet.-Ak. Foth. 1870, p. 692< 

 Pirates sinensis, Walk. Cat. Het. vii. p. 114. n. 66 (1873). 



Pirates sanctiis. 



Pedurius san^tus, Fabr. Mant. ii. p. 310 (1787). 

 Ze.'ito uterus sanctus, Walk. Cat. Het. vii. p. 94 (1873). 

 Pirates lafifer, Walk. tor. cit. p. 1 19. u. 75. 



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