1889.] 



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■with a few black punctures ; posterior margin of tlie metastethiura 

 thickly and finely punctured : legs greenish-testaceous with tarsi dusky, 

 and the tips of the claws black : tip of the rostrum, blackish ; antennm 

 with the basal joint greenish-testaceous : the remainder brown, becoming 

 darker towards the apex (Dallas). Long, 14| mill. 

 Reported from N. India. 



304. AcANTnOSOMA (?) BINOTATA, Walker. 

 Acanthosoma hinotata, Walkor, Cat. Hot., ii, p. 395 (1867). 

 Testaceous, elongate-oval, roughly punctured ; punctures brown : 

 head elongate, smooth in front ; tylus hardly extending beyond the jaga : 

 rostrum extending to the last coxte ; tips black : antenna} slender, less 

 than half the length of the body ; joints successively increasing in 

 length ; first extending a little in front of the head : pronotum in front 

 with a smooth band, of which the fore border is a curved pale testace- 

 ous line ; sides and a slender stripe, jjale testaceous ; hind angles form- 

 ing two long, acute, slightly recurved, spines : scutellum with a slender 

 pale testaceous stripe, on each side of which there is a brown patch ; 

 tip also brown : pectoral ridge well developed : abdomen beneath 

 slightly ridged, with two incomplete macular brown stripes ; spine ex- 

 tending to the intermediate coxas : hemelytra clouded with brown, 

 around a smooth, transverse, pale-testaceous spot on the disc ; membrane 

 cinereous (Walker). Long, 6| — 7 mill. 



Reported from India ; differs from 0. punctata, Dallas, by the tho- 

 racic spines. 



305. Acanthosoma aspeha, Walker. 



Acanthosoma aspera, Walkor, Cat. Ilet., ii, p. 395 (1867) : Distant, Soien. Ees. 

 2iul Yarkand Miss., p. 7 (1879). 



Testaceous, elongate-oval, thinly and roughly punctured ; punctures 

 mostly black : head elongate ; tylus extending very little beyond the 

 juga : rostrum extending a little beyond the hind coseb ; tip black : an- 

 tennjB slender, a little more than half the length of the body ; first 

 joint extending a little beyond the front of the head ; second as long as 

 the third ; fourth a little shorter than the third ; fifth black, testaceous 

 towards the base, shorter than the fourth : hind angles of the jwonotum 

 forming two red, long, stout, acute, very slightly recurved and ascending, 

 spines : pectoral ridge much developed : abdomen beneath slightly 

 ridged ; spine extending to the intermediate coxss : legs rather slender : 

 membrane cinereous (Walker). Long, 9 — 9a mill. 



Reported from India, Murrec. 

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