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narrower, lateral angles of pronotum rounded, hardly prominent out- 

 Wiirds and in no sense forwards : margins of abdomen immaculate : last 

 femora beneath near the apex armed with two spines [^Stal). Long, 28 ; 

 broad, 15 mill. 



Reported from Burma. 



366. Hypencha apicalis, St. Fargeatt & Ser-cille. 



Tessai-atoma apicalis, St. Farg. and Serv., Eno. Meth. x, p., 591 : Burm., Handb. 

 Ent., ii (i), p. 351 (1835) : Toll., Faune i5nt. I'Arch. Ind. Neerl., iii, p. 26 (1868) ; 

 Walker, Cat. Het., iii, p. 462 (1868). 



Var. — Hypencha reribi, EUenr., Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. lud., xxxiv, p. 160, f. 30 

 (1862) ; Walker, 1. o., p. 462 (1868). 



Tassaratoma picea, Dallas, List Hem., i, p. 341 (1851). 



Hypencha apicalis, Am. & Serv., Hist. Nat. Ins. Hem., p. 166 (1843) ; Stal, Eu. 

 Hem., i, p. 68 (1870). 



9 . Deep pitchy brown, shining : last joint of antennse ferruginous, 

 black at the base : membrane bronzed : sides of pronotum dilated, 

 rounded, its posterior margin very little advanced over the scutellum, of 

 ■which the apex is spathulate : sternal ridge elongate, rising at its an- 

 terior part and extending beyond the base of the first pair of coxae : ab- 

 domen a little denticulate on the margin, by reason of the posterior 

 angles of the upper segments extending beyond those which follow : 

 last segment with four, almost spiuose, angles, the two interior formed 

 by one emargination : all the femora with two siiines beneath placed 

 side by side a little before the apex, those of the first pair very short 

 those of the last pair long, like the posterior spine of the middle pair 

 (iSery.). Long, 33-34 mill. 



Var. 2 . Shining-black or piceous, with very numerous, small, 

 brassy-green impressed punctures on the pronotum and scutellum : 

 hemelytra violaceous black, varied with purple and CEerulean : anterior 

 angle of the pronotum unidentate : abdomen attenuated hindwai-ds, 

 with the margin serrated, posterior teeth longer, curved and arcuate : 

 the posterior angle of the scutellum fuscous-brunneous, with a foveola, 

 containing an intumescence : antenms black, apex of the last joint 

 ochraceous-brunneous : feet piceous : beneath fuscous-black ; sternum, 

 neck and face oohraceous (H. reriki, Ellenr.). Long, 28 — 29 mill. 



Reported from Java, Sumatra, Borneo. 



366. Hypencha oi'hthalmica, Stal. 



Hypencha ophthalmicn, Stal, Trans. Eut. Soo., (3 s. ) i, p. 596 (18G3) ; En. Hera, 

 i, p. 69 (1870). 



Tessaratoma ophthalmica, Walker, Cat. Het., iii, p. 463 (1868). 

 ? . Distinctly puuctui'ed, obscurely ferruginous, tiutedsubcupreous ; 



