1888.] E. T. Atkinson— Notes on Iwlian Rliyr.cliota. 177 



286. AuDiNETiA SPINIDENS, Fabriciiis. 



Cimex spinidens, Fabr., Mant. Ins. ii, p. 285 (1787) ; Ent. Syst. W, 99 (1794); 

 Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i, (4), p. 2139 (1788) ; Fabr., Syst. Rhyng., p. 161 (1803). 



Asopus geometricus, Burm., Handb. Ent. ii, (i), p. 380 (1835). 



Arma geometrica, Dallas, Trans. Ent. Soc. v, p. 187, t. 19, f. 2 (1849). 



Picromerus spinidens, Dallas, List Hem. i, p. 95 (1851) ; Walker, Cat. Het, i, 

 p. 133 (1867). 



Pentatoma aliena, Westw., Hope, Cat. Hem. i, p. 40 (1837) ? 



Audinetia aculeata, Ellenrieder, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Ind., xxiv, p. 137, f. 1, 

 (1862) : Walker, 1. c, iii, p. 532 (1868). 



Arma spinidens, Yollenboven, Fanne Ent. I'Arch. Indo-Neer. iii, p. 10 (1868), 



Cimex (Audinetia) spinidens, Stal, Hem. Fabr. i, p. 16 (1868) ; En. Hem. i, 

 p. 45 (1870). 



Audinetia spinidens, Distant, Biol. Cen. Am. Hem. p. 35 (1879) : A. M. N. H. (5 s.) 

 iii, p. 45 (1879) : Lethierry, ^n. Mas. Gen. xviii, p. 742 (1883). 



Fuscous : spines on pronotum large, acute, witli a small acute tooth 

 in the middle posteriorly : apex of scutellum and margin of hemelytra, 

 white ; beneath paler : feet pale {Fabr.'). 



$ . Body elongate-ovate, the sides nearly parallel : olive-brown 

 or brownish-testaceous, very thickly punctured : pronotum with the 

 lateral angles produced into a short, acute, black spine, which is dis- 

 tinctly toothed on its hinder margin ; a pale yellowish line runs across 

 the disc of the pronotum from angle to angle : scutellum rather dark 

 at the base, the apex white : hemelytra with the external maro-in 

 whitish ; membrane transparent : abdomen beneath punctured, with an 

 irregular line down the middle, and the stigmata, black : legs, rostrum 

 and antennae yellowish brown : the apex of the third joint of the an- 

 tennae, and the whole of the fourth, except the base, black : tarsi pitchy 

 (^A. geometrica, Dallas). Body, long, 14 — 15 mill. 



Reported from Borneo, Java, Sumatra, Assam, Abyssinia, Mexico. 

 The Indian Museum possesses specimens from Calcutta, Harmatti (at 

 the foot of the Daphla hills, Assam), Sikkim (mihi). 



Genus Picromerus, Am. & Serv. 



Hist. Nat. Ins. Hem., p. 84 (1843) : Dallas, List. Hem. i, p. 95 (1851) : Walker 

 Cat. Het. i, p. 132 (1867) ■.—Cimex subg. Cimex, Stal, Of vers. K. V.-A. Fork 

 497 (1867) ; En. Hem. i, p. 45 (1870). 



or 

 lor 



Body flat : juga not, or scarcely, longer than the tylus, apical interi 

 angle somewhat straight, scarcely acute, not produced inwards ; poster 

 angles of pronotum acutely produced, flattened, dentate on the sides • 

 venter, in cT, without smooth, silky, stridalatory spots : anterior femora 

 with 1 — 2 spines towards the tip ; anterior tibiae not dilated. 



