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Type material. Holotype, China: (Kinb), labelled " typus ", "prolixus", 

 abdomen missing, Riksmus. Stockholm. 



Other material. India : 1 <3 ; Java : 1 $ ; Malaya : 1 <$ ; Australia : 4 $, 

 6 $ ; New Caledonia : 1 <$. 



The range of this species is wide, extending in the west into India, in the south into 

 Australia, in the north into China and in the east into New Caledonia. It has been 

 collected on grasses, but not many individuals seem to have been found. 



BLOETEOCORIS gen. n. 



Type-species : Leptocorixa (Rhabdocoris) inflexigena Blote 1934. 



Body robust. Head elongated ; genae remarkably developed, with pointed and inflexed 

 tips (Text-fig. 8) ; ocelli usually placed very close together ; interocellar distance usually 

 about half the distance between an ocellus and an eye (in both the cases including the diameter 

 of both). Antennae with apices of basal segments slightly thicker. Rostrum long, reaching 

 hind coxae. 



Ino\ posterior margin of seventh abdominal tergum produced into a median truncated process 

 (Text-fig. 376) ; pygophore rounded, lobes of ninth segments prominently developed, usually 

 produced into horn-like processes ; median posterior margin pointed ; claspers branched at 

 apices into a rectangular and a conical leaf-like portion (Text-fig. 374, A) ; aedeagus with both 

 (dorsal and ventral) pairs of thecal appendages and two pairs of dorso-lateral conjunctival 

 appendages ; supporting appendages always present but frontal and membranous conjunctival 

 appendages absent (Text-fig. 377). 



In $, posterior margin of seventh abdominal sternum usually with medially pointed apex, 

 very small portion of first gonocoxae visible externally (Text-fig. 378) ; intervalvular sacs 

 absent ; spermatheca usually flask-shaped, with a long coiled tube but without a median flange. 



This genus resembles Stenocoris and Leptocorisa but can easily be separated from 

 them by the pointed and inflexed genae, developed processes of the lobes of the 

 ninth segments in the $ and in the $ by very small externally visible first gonocoxae. 



It is named in honour of Dr. H. C. Blote. 



Hsiao (1963) has described a monotypic new genus, Grypocephalus for pallipectus 

 new species. His generic description is based on the character of remarkably 

 developed juga, which he has shown inflexed and pointed in his diagram of pallipec- 

 tus. It is suspected that he has erred in recognizing the developed structure as 

 " juga " rather than genae. If this is so, my new genus Bloeteocoris will fall into 

 synonymy of Grypocephalus Hsiao. Until the type specimen of G. pallipectus is 

 studied, this cannot be ascertained. 



Key to Species 



1 Larger species, body length exceeding 14 mm., head dorsally without a black mark 

 or spot ; in <$, lobes of ninth segments produced into horn-like processes (Text-fig. 

 382) ; in $, posterior margin of seventh abdominal sternum medially with a small 

 projection, without split (Text-fig. 378) ........ 2 



- Smaller species, body length in o* 11-11-5 mm., and in $, 12-13-2 mm. ; a pair of 

 symmetrical trifurcate marks present on the dorsum of the head ; in o*. lobes 

 of ninth segments rounded (Text-fig. 386) ; in $, posterior margin of seventh 

 abdominal sternum with a median split (Text-fig. 388) . . tninutus (p. 121) 



