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ens ; the postero-lateral margins are testaceous, coarsely punctured witli 

 brown : scutellum orange testaceous ; the base impunctate, with the 

 lateral margins strongly punctured with blackish brown, and four punc- 

 tured blackish brown spots across at the margin of the pronotum; the apex 

 rather finely punctured with brown ; the middle occupied by a broad, 

 blackish brown, transverse band, interrupted in the middle : coriaceous 

 portion of the hemelytra with the disc covered with, rather coarse, con- 

 fluent, brown punctures, so that only a few points of the testaceous ground 

 colour appears ; outer margin testaceous, with two longitudinal lines of 

 blackish brown punctures ; membrane brown, semitransparent : abdomen 

 beneath testaceous, very thickly and finely punctured with brown, and 

 clothed with fine, short, whitish hairs, with, the median ridge impunctate, 

 smooth and naked : pectus testaceous, more coarsely, but less closely 

 punctured than the abdomen, naked, shining and somewhat rugose : legs 

 orange red ; femora covered with round black points ; tibiae with a black 

 line down each of the ridges of the outer edge ; claws black : rostrum 

 and antennse pale orange-red ; the apical joint of th.e latter palest 

 (^Dallas). 



Long, 25 — 27 mill. Reported from Silhat, Assam, Sikkim (mihi). 



Grenus Axiagastus, Dallas. 



Dallas, List Hem. i, p. 221 (1851) : Walker, Cat. Het. ii, p. 268 (1867) : Stal, 

 Ofvers. K. V.-A. Forh., p. 511 (1867) ; En. Hem. v. p. 64, 94 (1876). 



Body ovate : head longer than broad between tbe eyes, rounded at 

 the apex, tylus and juga subequal in length, lateral margins distinctly 

 sinuated ; eyes very prominulous, globose : ocelli large, placed close to 

 the eyes ; basal joint of the antennee short and stout, not reaching the 

 apex of the head ; second joint more than twice the length of the first, 

 but shorter than the third ; rostrum very long, reaching the middle of 

 the tliird ventral segment, inserted close to the apex of the head ; basal 

 joint shortest, reaching the base of the head ; second joint longer tban 

 the first, shorter than the fourth ; third longest : anterior angles of the 

 rostral canal produced downwards into two long, curved tusks, of which 

 the points are turned a little hindwards and inwards : pronotum hexa- 

 gonal, unarmed, margined anteriorly and on the sides, lateral angles 

 rounded, not produced : scutellum large and long, reaching at least 

 two-thirds the length of the abdomen, with the apex broad and rounded : 

 frena not reaching the middle of the scutellum : coriaceous portion of 

 the hemelytra, much longer than the membrane, reaching nearly to the 

 apex of the scutellum ; membrane with longitudinal veins : ridge on the 

 meso- and meta-stethium varying in height and breadth, without a 



