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‘ The resemblance between this bug and a species of weevil, which attacks 
the fruit of various mangos, is remarkable, and we have also taken the two 
species in the same environment, viz., among brushwood in the open ; but 
both are inconspicuously coloured, resembling bark.’ 
GRAPHOSOMATINAE 
15. Podops coarctata 
Cimex coarctata, Fahr, Ent. Syst. Supply p. 530, 44-5 (1798). 
Scotinophora coarctata, StdL Hem. Fahr. i, p. 21, 2 (1868). 
Podops coarctata. Hist, Faun. Brit. Ind. Rhynch. i, p. 73, fig. 36 (1902). 
Tetyra bispinosa, (pt.) Fabr. Syst. Rhyng.^ p. 138, 48 (1803). 
Podops spinosus, nasalis, and exacta. Walk. Cat. Het. i, pp. 73, 74 (1867). 
Kuala Lumpur, Selangor. 23rd April, 1902. (At light). 
Found nearly throughout British India, common in the Malay Peninsula 
and recorded from Java. 
16. Podops malayensis, sp. nov. 
(Plate XV) 
Piceous-brown ; head, anterior area of pronotum, and sternum, greyishly 
pilose ; antennae, ochraceous, apical joint, excluding base, piceous ; femora 
black, tibiae and tarsi stramineous ; anterior and intermediate tibiae with their 
bases piceous, their apices pale castaneous ; rostrum brownish, its apex piceous 
and reaching the posterior coxae ; scutellum with a luteous spot near each 
basal angle ; lateral margins of abdomen with small obscure ochraceous spots ; 
stigmata piceous ; first and second joints of antennae shortest and subequal 
in length, third, fourth, and fifth joints almost subequal ; anterior pronotal 
angles ochraceous and horizontally extended ; lateral margins concavely sinuate, 
lateral angles prominently obtusely spinous ; abdominal segments laterally 
posteriorly obtusely spinous. 
Length 6 to ; exp. pronot. angl. 3J mm. 
Bidor, South Perak. February, 1901. (At light). 
Sungkei, South Perak. February, 1902. (At light). 
17. Aspidestrophus lineola 
Aspidestrophus lineola. Foil. Faun. Ind. Neerl. i, p. 44, 2, pi. iii, f. 10 
(1863) ; Hist. Faun. Brit. Ind. Rhynch. i, p. 80, fig. 40 (1902). 
Bukit Besar, Nawngchik. 2,500 feet. 2nd September, 1901. 
Also recorded from Assam, Burma, and S.E. Borneo. 
