1889.] 



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yellow : eyes light brown, ocelli yellow : pronottim dilated, disc finely 

 transversely rugose and irregularly punctured: scutellum distinctly ruo'oso, 

 its apex ligliter : liemelytra very finely punctnlate, the margin obscure 

 near the base : membrane transparent brown : rostrum, marks on the 

 pectus, the coxce, and the reflexed margin of the hemelytra, yellowish : 

 some small triangular white patches on the lateral margins of the 

 abdominal segments; the sixth segment is acuminate in both sexes, the 4-6 

 segments a little dilated in the $ : foot stout, with long spines on the 

 femora (Toll.). Scarcely differs from the preceding, compared with 

 VoUouhoven's figure it differs in having the angles of the dilated part of 

 the pronotum produced much more forwards than in 0. angulata, Stal. 

 Long, 32 ; broad, 19 mill. 



Reported from India (?), Sumatra (?). 



Genus PxcANUM, Am. & Serv. 

 Hist. Nat. Ins. Horn., p. 171 (1843) : Dallas, List Hem,, i, p. 315 (1851) : Walker, 

 Cat. net., iii, p. 4.70 (1868) : Stal, Hem. Afric, i, p. 225 (1864) : En. Hem., i, p. 75 

 (1864). 



Head rather pointed, anterior margin slightly emarginate : antennae 

 long, joints rather robust, the first scarcely extending beyond the an- 

 terior margin of the head, the rest almost canaliculate, the second a 

 little larger than the third which is as long as the foitrth : rostrum 

 reaching the middle of the space lying between the insertion of the 

 first and that of the second pair of feet : pronotum semilunate, rather 

 regularly rounded in front, posterior border almost straight and not pro- 

 duced over the scutellum, lateral margins flat and a little reflexed : no 

 sternal ridge : scutellum rather broad at the base, but short, not reach- 

 in"- the middle of the abdomen ; its apex very small, extended a little in 

 form of a long square and its tip spoon-shaped : abdomen oval, margins 

 flattened and almost foliaceous, extending ou each side a little beyond 

 the hemelytra : venter tumid : base not elevated : feet moderate ; femora 

 beneath with two more or less prominent spines at the apex (Am. S,- 

 Serv.). 



388. Ptcanum eubens, Fabricius. 



Cimex ruhens, Fabr., Ent. Syst., iy, p. 107 (1794) : Stoll, Punaises, p. 21, t. 4, 

 f. 25, 29 (1788). 



Cimex amethystinus, Wober, Obs. Eut., p. 115 (1801). 



Edessa amethystena, Fabr., Syat. Khyng., p. 150 (1803). 



Edessa rabens, Fabr., Syst. Bliyng., p. 151 (1803). 



Tessaratoma alteriiata, St Parg. & Sarv., Eno. Meth., x, p. 591 (1825). 



Aspo,igopasameth!/sHnus, Barm., Haudb. Ent., ii (i), p. 351 (1835) ; Herr. goluiff., 

 Wanz lus., iv, p. 85, t. 135, i. 417 (1839) ; Blauoliard, Hist. Ins., p. 143 (1840). 



