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venter shining goldeu purplish : femora unarmed. Stature of Pycanum 

 rubens, Fabr., nearest to M. reflexus, Dallas, fi'om the Philijjpines, dis- 

 tinct in having the lateral margins of the pronotum straight from the 

 apex beyond the middle, thence obtusely roundly angulate, antennse 

 stouter, and marking otherwise (S/aZ). Long, 21 ; broad, 11 mill. 

 Reported from Ceylon. 



Genus AsuuoriA, Stal. 



En. Hem., i, p. 73 (1870). 



Body oval : head somewhat short, equally long and broad between the 

 eyes ; juga contiguous, rounded at the apex, lateral margins straight : 

 ocelli scarcely twice as far from the eyes as from each other : rostrum 

 reaching the intermediate coxce : second joint of the antennas longer 

 than the third : sides of pronotum dilated : abdomen gradually slightly 

 narrowed hindwards, apical angles of segments acute, a little prominul- 

 ous, angles of sixth segment altogether promiuulous hindwards, in c?, 

 acute : prostethium furrowed : mesostethium with a longitudinal fur- 

 rowed ridge or wrinkle : metastethium elevated, anteriorly and pos- 

 teriorly, narrowed, higher than the base of the mesostethium: first 

 ventral segment elevated in the middle in a tubercle, touching the base 

 of the metastethium : feet moderate, femora beneath with two rows of 

 very minute teeth, last pair armed inwards near the apex with a largish 

 spine : last tibire somewhat straight, as long as the femora. Near 

 Mattiphus, Am. & Serv., differs in having the head shorter, more ob- 

 tuse, the structure of the sterna, the angles of the last abdominal seg- 

 ment in (? acute, produced, and the first ventral segment elevated in the 

 middle (^Stdl). 



383. AsiARCH.\ NIGEIDORSIS, Stal. 



Matfiphn.^ niiji-idorsis, Stal, Trans. Eut. Soc, (3 s.) i, p. 6UU (18G3): VViilker Cat 

 Het., iii, p. 4(59 (18(58). 



Asiarcha ni<iridorsi.-<, Stal, En. Hem., i, p. 73 (1870). 



c?, 9. Above black, obsoletely verging into ferruginous, beneath 

 with antenna? and feet testaceous-flavescent ; extreme margin of venter 

 black, the fourth joint of an tenure, black, flavescent at the base the 

 third joint (except apex) infuscate : membrane greenish roueous. Allied 

 to M. oblongus, Dallas, but differs in being larger, above black : pronotum 

 more amplified forwards, lateral angles more produced, smaller, part of 

 anterior margin roflexed, posterior angles of sixth abdominal segment 

 produced more acutely and a little farther. Head obtuse, about as long 

 as the intraocular breadth ; pronotum gradually distinctly amplified for- 



