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Tibige rounded, without a furrow ; see p. 16. 



Genus Agonoscelis, Spinola. 



Ess. p. 327 (1837) ; Dallas, List Hem. i, p. 179 (1851) : Stal, Hem. Afric. i, 

 p. 177 (1864) ; En. Hem. v, p. 84 (1876). 



Includes Neuroscia, Am. & Serv., Hist. Nat. Ins. Hem. p. 109 (1843). 



Body remotely pilose, oval : head very often somewhat long, gra- 

 dually narrowed forwards, rounded at apex, entire ; juga and tylus of 

 equal length : bucculse continued through, distinctly elevated : rostrum 

 long, or somewhat so, first joint reaching base of the head : anterior 

 lateral margins of pronotum entire, somewhat acute, straight ; anterior 

 margin, in the middle at least, somewhat callous : scutellum triangular, 

 rather narrowed at apex, frena extended a little beyond the middle : 

 hemelytra somewhat narrower than the abdomen and much longer : 

 veins of membrane simple : mesostethium slightly carinate : venter 

 sometimes, obsoletely somewhat sulcate : feet moderate ; tibiae cylin- 

 drical, notsulcate above (Stdl). 



196. Agonoscelis nubila, Fabricius. 



Cimecs nuhilus, Fabr., Syst. Ent. p. 712 (1775) ; Spec. Ins. ii, p. 355 (1781) ; 

 Mant. Ins. ii, p. 293 (1787) ; Ent. Syst. iv, p. 112 (1794), Cape : Wolff, Ic. Cim. ii, 

 p. 57, t. 6, f. 54 (1801), India. 



Halys nubila, Fabr., Syst. Rbyng. p. 183 (1803) : Stoll, Punaises, p. 161, t. 40, 

 f. 290 ? (1788), India. 



Pentatoma grata, Palis. Beauv., Ins. p. 129, Hem, t, 9, f. 5 (1805). 



miafnuhila, Halm, Wanz. Ins. iii, p. 29, t. 82, f. 251 (1835). 



Agonoscelis indica, Spinola, Ess. p. 329 (1837). 



Var. JElia crucifera, Westwood, Hope, Oat. Hem. i, p. 32 (1837). Cape, Java. 



Var. Agonoscelis femoralis, Walker, Cat. Het. iii, p. 545 (1868). N. India, Banda. 



Neuroscia grata, Am. and Serv., Hist. Nat. Ins. Hem. p= 109 (1843). St. Domingo ? 



Neuroscia sulciventris, EUenr., Nat. Tijds. v. Ned. Ind. xxiy, p. 144, f. 11 (1862). 

 Sumatra. 



Agonoscelis nubila, Dallas, List Hem. i, p. 179 (1851) ; UMer, Proc. Ac. PhiL 

 p. 223 (1860), Japan. Walker, 1. c. i, p. 217 (1867) ; Stal, En. Hem. v, p. 85 (1876) ; 

 Scott. A. M. N. H. (4 s.) xiv, p. 290 (1874) ; Distant, 1. c. (5 s.), iii, p. 45 (1879). 



Small, greyish varied with black : antennae altogether black ; head 

 ffrevish with four black lines : pronotum, greyish, irrorated with black, 

 dorsal line immaculate : scutellum black at the base, with a median line 

 and apex, greyish : hemelytra variegated, a median rufescent patch : 

 wings white with black lines : beneath, glaucous, punctured black, 

 margin of abdomen rufescent (Fair.). N. grata, Am. & Serv. (I.e.) is 

 thus described : c? , $ yellowish, spotted black ; head yellow with four 

 black longitudinal lines above : pronotum yellow, with some reddish 

 tints, punctured black : scutellum yellowish, punctured black, its tip of 

 a light yellow or reddish : corium reddish yellow, with small, black, 



