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angles produced into stout, somewhat cylindrical processes, directed 

 forwards and upwards, with the apex emarginate and deflexed : scutel- 

 lum reaching beyond the middle of the body ; the apex broad with a 

 tubercle in its middle : membrane with irregularly retriculated veins : 

 body beneath very convex ; abdomen and sternum unarmed ; the 

 lateral margins of the former with a small tubercle at the posterior 

 angle of each segment : legs long, especially the posterior ; tarsi of 

 three joints, with the basal joint as long as the apical (Dallas). 



177. ^scHROCORis OBSCURUS, Dallas. 



JEschrus ohscurus, Dallas, List. Hem. i, p. 221, t. 8, f. 4 (1851) ; Walker, Cat. 

 Het. ii, p. 268 (1867) ; Stal, En. Hem. v, p. 79 (1876). 



c? . Head black, tinted with coppery or violet, somewhat shining, 

 thickly punctured, with two short, lorgitudinal, parallel ridges on the 

 middle of the vertex, and a similar ridge on the tylus : eyes black : 

 pronotum pale brown, punctured with black and rugose, with an elevated 

 line down the middle ; the tips of the lateral processes are black : scu- 

 tellum of the same colour* as the pronotum with a large black pit in 

 each basal angle ; apical tubercle black ; coriaceous portion of the he- 

 melytra of the same colour and texture ; membrane brownish : body 

 beneath black, coarsely punctured rugose, with scattered brown eleva- 

 tions ; lateral tubercles of the abdomen brown ; pronotal processes 

 black, tinted with coppery : legs brown ; femora covered with jfine black 

 punctures, with the base, the inside, the apex of the outside, and a 

 ring before the apex, black ; tibiae with the base and a ring about the 

 middle black : rostrum and antennae brown ; the latter becoming 

 darker towards the apex (Dallas). Long, 8^ ; breadth of pronotum, 8j 



mill. 



Reported from Java, India. 



178. ^SCHROCORIS TUBERCULATUS, Stal. 



JEschrus tuherculatus, Stal, A. S. E. F. (4 s.) v, p. 169 (1865) ; En. Hem. v, p. 

 79 (1876). 



(5* . Pale fuscescent-ferruginous, strongly punctured in patches ; 

 head and pronotum anteriorly fuscous-cupreous ; venter brassy-black on 

 the disc ; femora brassy-black, a median ring on the femora, the tibiae, 

 and antennae yellow-testaceous ; tibiae black at the base, ringed fascous 

 in the middle : pronotum bituberculate on the disc. Close to jE. ohscurus^ 

 Dallas, differs in the short head, disc of pronotum bituberculate and 

 lateral horns shorter : pronotum furnished with a median longitudinal 

 ridge and others transverse behind the middle ; lateral angles produced 



