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size, pronotum not so broad, anterior lateral margins somewhat straight, 

 or very slightly rounded, apex of scutellum narrower, longer, behind 

 the middle, gradually narrowed, angnlated at the apex, mesostethial 

 ridge posteriorly broader and more tumid, metastethium piillescent, 

 apparently shorter and broader, abdomen especially behind the middle 

 narrower, posterior angles of sixth segment more acute and produced to 

 a greater distance, anal lobes longer and narrower, last pair of feet a 

 little shorter, last pair of femora not reaching sixth ventral segment, 

 first joint of last tarsi shorter, its apex, also base of second joint conco- 

 lorous, which, however, varies much : wings paler, palely sub-fuscous 

 ochraoeous; dorsum of abdomen subviolaceous-shining. Long, 25-27 

 mill. 



Reported from Java, Sumatra, India, Khasiya Hills (Assam, mihi). 



372. BUSTHENES HERCULES, Stal. 

 Eusthenes Hercules, Stal, En. Hem. i, p. 231 (1870). 



Above rufesent piceous ; beneath piceous-flavescent ; a narrow 

 median band on the venter, fuscous, spiracula with a pale cincture ; 

 scutellum and feet fuscous-piceous, last pair of feet more obscure ; tarsi 

 flavoscent-castaneous : dorsum of abdomen obscurely somewhat ferru- 

 ginous, obsoletely punctulate : connexiviim subviolaceous-black, basal 

 spot on segments yellow-castaneous : apex of scutellum castaneous. 



c?. Anal segment amplified hind wards, broadly somewhat trun- 

 cated at the apex, somewhat sinuated in the middle, posterior angles 

 rounded at the extremity of the apex : apical angles of the sixth seo-- 

 ment of the abdomen not so produced, obtuse at the apex itself : 

 metastethium equally narrowed forwards and hindwards from the mid- 

 dle, equally broad at the base and apex, posteriorly slightly iufloxed : 

 second ventral segment not elevated in the middle, not touching the 

 metastethium, punctuation as in the other speices of the genus ; stature 

 and form of pronotum like E. rolnstus, Serv. ; differs in having the 

 pronotum not broader than the hemelytra, the mesostethial ridge poste- 

 riorly very slightly elevated aud furrowed almost to the base, the colour 

 of metastethium, of the lower side of the body and tarsi ; also the first 

 joint of the last pair of tarsi longer : last tibiaj in c? , stout, hardly 

 curved towards the base, beneath narrowly convex, almost third basal 

 part hroadly depressed, gradually narrowed (Stal). Long, 39 ; breadth 

 at base of hem. 20 mill. 



Reported from Silhat, Naga Hills (Assam). 



