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pronotum levigate, sides immarginate, process of the lateral angles not 

 turning forwards, short, triangular, somewhat depressed : scutellum 

 narrow at the apex, frena extended for a distance towards the apex, 

 apical margin of corium sti-aight : first joint of the antennas extending 

 beyond the apex of the head : mesostethial ridge high, laminated 

 posteriorly, abruptly lower before the intermediate coxee, not produced 

 hindwards between them ; not or only very slightly extending beyond 

 the anterior margin of the mesostethium, more or less distinctly rounded 

 at the apex : apical angles of the sixth abdominal segment in t? rounded 

 at the apex. 



297. AcANTHOSOMA PROXiMA, Dallas. 



Acanthosoma proximum, Dallas, Liat Hem., i, p. 303 (1851) : Walker, Cat. Het. 

 ii, p. 388 (1867). 



Acanthosoma proxima, Stal, En. Hem., v, p. 113 (1876) ; Distant, Scient. Res. 2nd 

 Yarkand Miss., p. 7 (1879). 



Above brownish or yellowish green : very like A. hcemorrhoidalis. 

 Linn., the lateral angles of the pronotum are less prominent, rufous, 

 punctured black : apex of scutellum, black (Dallas). Long, 15| — 16 

 mill. 



Reported fi-om Murree (Panjab) : Rawal Pindi (mihi). 



298. Acanthosoma distincta, Dallas. 



Acanthosoma distinctum, Dallas, List Hem., i, p. 304 (1851) : Walker, Cat. Het. 

 ii, p. 393 (1867). 



Acanthosoma distincta, Scott, A. M. N. H. (4 s.) xiv, p. 290 (1874) ; Stal, En. 

 Hem., V, p. 113 (1876): Renter, Berlin Ent. Zeitaohr., xxv, p. 75 (1881): Distant, 

 Trans. Eut. Soc, p. 415 (1883). 



(?. Above pale olive-green, rather thickly punctured with black, 

 head pointed in front, finely punctured : pronotum with a transverse 

 impunctate space towards the anterior margin ; lateral angles promi- 

 nent, subspinose, obtuse, ferruginous : scutellum brownish, becomiTig 

 green towards the apex, with the apex itself whitish, membrane brown- 

 ish, semitransparent, with a dark line at the base, surrounding the 

 apical margin of the corium: abdomen above red, witli the mar- 

 gins bright orange, with a black band at the junction of each seg- 

 ment : body beneath pale testaceous : abdomen with the eraargina- 

 tion of the apical segment very deep reaching the middle of the abdo- 

 men ; the margins spotted with black : legs pale greenish, with the 

 tarsi fulvous. Antennae rather long, pale greenish, with the two apical 

 joiats dusky ferruginous {Dallas). Long, 13 — 13| mill. 

 ■ ■ Reported from N, B. India, Murree (Panjab), Darjiling, Japan, 



