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Pnirsus ought to be regarded as a subgenus of Epidaus, not of Endochus. 

 These groups should be distinguished in the following way. 



A. Posterior lobe of pronotum with two discal spines. — Epidaus, Stal. 



a. Scutellum a little raised toward the apex which is narrowly 



rounded. — Subg. Epidaus (s. str.) 



b. Scutelium not raised toward the apex which is acute or angular. 



— Subg. Pnirsus. 



B. Posterior lobe of pronotum without discal spines. — Endochus, Stal. 

 The difierence in the structure of the scutellum of the two subgenera of 



Epidaus is not in all species a very marked one, and they could possibly 

 be united, although the tubercle behind the antennae usually is less acute 

 and spinelike in Epidaus proper than in Pnirsus. — Villanovanus, Dist., is 

 not even subgenerically distinct from Endochus. 



46. Rliinocoris fuscipes., Fabr. 

 *47. Rliinocoris cruralis, n. sp. 



Parce pilosus, sordide testaceus, parte postoculari laterali et superiore 

 capitis (exceptis macula transversa inter ocellos lineaque media ab ilia 

 usque ad basin emissa), pectore medio atque abdomine nigris, gula fulvo- 

 sanguinea, lobo antico pronoti piceo-testaceo, membrana fusca, macula 

 subquadrata angulorum apicalium segmentorum abdominis albida, ventre 

 intra spiracula transversim obsolete luteo-maculato ; antennse ferrugineo- 

 testacefe, annulo angusto subapicali articuli primi nigro et summo apice 

 ejus albo, articulis duobus ultimis fuscis ; rostrum et pedes obscure ferru- 

 gineo-sanguinea, articulo ultimo illius, coxis trochante-ribusque nigris, 

 femoribus subtus infuscatis. Caput pronoto medio paullulo longius, parte 

 postoculari quam anteoculari paullulo breviore, e supero visa basin versus 

 sensim angustata, articulo primo antennarum capita paullulo breviore, 

 supra parce piloso, pilis granulis minutis insidentibus, articulo secundo 

 primo plus quam dimidio breviore, tertio secundo subeeque longo articulo 

 primo rostri parti anteoculari capitis subseque lougo. sedundo premio paullo 

 longiore. Pronotum latitudine basali hemelytrorum parum latius, impres- 

 sione media lobi antici usque ultra medium lobi postici extensa, ad basin 

 lobi antici plica nulla transvera interrupta, tuberculo angulorum apicalium 

 parvo, subacute, angulis lateralibus rotundatis, basalibus breviter lobatis. 

 Scutellum summo apice forbiter recurvum. Hemelytra apicem abdominis 

 paullum superautia, corio prsesertim in venis concoliter sericeo. Pleurte 

 ochreo-sericese. Abdomen hemelytris clausis sat multo latius, spiraculis 

 post medium segmentorum sitis. Tibise posticte medio per partem circiter 

 quintam logitudinis earum paullo incrassatse, parte incrassata in latere 

 infero-interiore dense adpresse albo-sericea. Long. $ 11 mm. 



This remarkable species has no other near ally than Rh. longifvons, Stal, 

 upon which Stal founded the subgenus Charontus. It differs from that 

 species by the shorter basal antennal joint and second rostral joint, the 

 non-compressed but on its interior under-side densely sericeous incrassated 

 part of the hind tibisp, and by the difi'erent colouring. By the lack of the 

 fold separating the median impression of the anterior pronotal lobe from 

 the transverse impression it differs from the genus Rhinocoris, biit it has so 

 much in common with Rh. longifrons that it cannot be placed in Splie- 

 danolestes, from which it differs in the robust (though not large) stature and 

 the qiute dissimilar fades. — In his Indian Fauna Distant has published an 

 abridged translation of the description of Rh. longifrons, but has omitted its 

 principal specific and subgeneric character, by which it differs from all 

 previously known species, viz., the remarkable structure of the hind tibiae. 



* 48. Glymmatophora seynis, n. sp. 



Levissime subnitida, nigra, dorso abdominis opaco cum connexivo et 

 margine laterali ventris rufo, sed figura magna T-formi nigra a basi ejus 



