1889.] 



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and scutellura very obsoletely and obscui'ely punctate ; the corium finely 

 but distinctly punctate : angles of pronotum produced in sliort, robust 

 spines of which the apices are rounded above and subtruncate : body 

 beneath ochraceous, much tessellated with black : the pronotal spines 

 above castaneous (Bisf.). Long, 10 ; exp. angl. pron., 10 mill. 

 Reported from Sadiya (Assam). 



Genus Clinocoeis, Hahn, Stal. 



Pfc. Wanz. Ins. ii, p. 70 (183-1) ; Sthl, Oefvers. K. V.-A. Porh., xxix (3), p. 39 

 (1872) ; En. Hem., v, p. 110, 114 (1876). Includes Sastragala, Fieber, Em-. Hem. p. 

 78, 327 (1861) ■—Elasmostethus, pt, Fieber, 1. o., p. 78, 338 (1861) -.—Elasmucha, Stal, 

 A. S. B. F. (4 s.) iy, p. 54 (1864); Oefrers. K. V.-A. Forh. p. 638(1870):— 

 Meadorus , Muls. and Key, Pun. France, P^t., p. 315 (1866). 



Antennae S-jointed, two-thii-ds of the length of the body, inserted 

 under the margin of the head forwards in a small elevation, the first 

 joint stout and almost as long as the third ; the second as long as the 

 fourth but thinner ; the third somewhat shorter than the fourth which 

 however is stouter and almost as stout as the rounded fifth joint : 

 rostrum 4-jointed; ocelli small, placed near the posterior mai-gin of the 

 head : corium besides the strong vein on the inner margin, with a 

 longitudinal vein arising at the base and bifurcated before the middle : 

 membrane with a transverse cellule-like vein emitting six longitudinal 

 veins towards the external margin : feet comparatively long and slender. 

 The mesostethial ridge posteriorly is produced hindwards between the 

 intermediate coxsB : the posterior lateral margins of ihe pronotum are 

 narrowly depressed and slightly amplified ; the furrow from the orifices 

 short, or somewhat so : two apical ventral segments in ? , without a 

 subimpressed, opaque, lateral spot. 



326. Clinocokis eecurvus, Dallas. 



Acanthosoma recurvum, Dallas, List Hem., i, p. 310 (1851) ; Walker, Cat. Hot. ii, 

 p. 394 (1867J. 



Clinocoris recumis, Stal, En. Hem., v, p. 114 (1876). 



2 . Ovate, above pale olive, punctured with black : head thickly 

 and finely punctured with black, the tylus longer than the juga : pro- 

 notum thickly and strongly punctured with black ; the lateral angles 

 produced into strong, acute, slightly recurved, deep red spines ; the 

 disc with a broad, transverse, yellowish white band across the middle : 

 membrane transjjarent, brownish : mai'gins of the abdomen dull orange, 

 with a black spot at the posterior angle of each segment : body beneath 

 fulvous, punctured with black ; the abdomen sparingly and finely, the 



