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fourth longei- than the third : pronotum with a black band, which 

 occupies the hind border and includes the hind angles ; these form two 

 long acute directly diverging spines : scutellum black, with a large 

 luteous spot in the disc ; tips whitish : pectoral ridge well developed : 

 abdomen slightly ridged beneath ; spine extending to the intermediate 

 . coxfe : legs rather stout : hemelytra black along the hind border and 

 irregularly black along the outer border; membrane brown, cinci-eons 

 along the outer border, including a white costal spot at its base 

 {Walker). Long 9^ mill. 



Reported from the Panjab : Bunkoti in Jaunsar, 9000 feet (mihi). 



316. Sastragala paemata. Distant. 

 Sastragala parmata, Distant, Trans. Ent. Soo., p. 353 (18S7). 



Body above brownish-ochraceous ; spines on pronotum reddish- 

 brown ; scutellum with a large cordate ochraceous spot, surrounded with 

 blackish ; antennre ochraceous, 3-4 joints subequal in length, a little 

 shorter than the fourth : eyes purplish-brown : pronotum sparingly 

 and coarsely punctate, the lateral angles produced into long, thick, 

 rounded spines, very slightly reflexed at the apices : scutellum with the 

 median spot levigate, remainder coarsely punctate, apex ochraceous ; 

 corium coarsely punctate, with the lateral margin luteous and levigate : 

 body beneath and legs ochraceous ; apex of rostrum pitchy (Bist.). Long, 

 12 ; exp. angl. pron., 9 mill. 



Reported from N. India. 



Genus Anaxandea, Stal. 

 En. Hem. v, p. 110, 113 (187G). 



Mesostethial ridge long, rather prominent to a distance before the 

 anterior margin of the prostethium, with the apical part before the same 

 margin prominulous, gradually narrowed or acuminated : process of the 

 lateral angles of the pronotum turning outwards, slightly upwards 

 and distinctly forwards, pronotum at the anterior margin with punc- 

 tures arranged confusedly in somewhat like two rows ; apical angles of 

 the sixth segment of the abdomen, in c?, somewhat obtuse. 



317. Anaxandea edfescens, Dallas. 



Acanthosoma rufescens, Dallas, List Hem., i, p. 311 (1851 J ; Walker, Cat. Het., ii, 

 p. 399 (1867). 



Anaxandra rufescens, Stal, En. Hem., v., p. 114 (18G7J : Eeuter, Berlin. Ent, 

 Zeitachr., XXV, p. 77 (1881). 



5 . -Head dull olive, impuuctate, pointed in front, with the vortex 



