coreid^. 
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membrane suggests a leaf withered at the tip, as is so often seen on 
Sissu leaves when the weevil Apoderus has been at work. 
There are a number of other genera 
and species, all of which are typically 
hill and forest species, found but 
rarely in the plains. Physomerus 
grossipes, Fabr., is one of the few 
plains species, a dull brown insect with 
thick curved dark-banded hind 
femora. Acanthocoris scabrator , Fabr. 
(Plate LXXVI, fig. 10), is also found 
rarely ; in this the abdomen projects 
laterally beyond the hemelytra. 
Cletus includes several species of 
smaller thickset insects with slightly 
produced lateral pronotal angles, 
Fig. 445 Ho weocerus vahiabilis. f ounc l commonly in crops in the 
plains. None are injurious. Five 
species may be found in the plains and they are not easy to distin¬ 
guish. C. bipunctatus, Westd., appears to be the most common. (Plate 
LXXVI, fig. 12.) Cletomorpha resembles Cletus, but has the abdomen 
produced laterally. C. hastata, Fabr., is rarely found. (Plate LXXVI, 
%■ H-) 
Pseudophloeince.—Clavigralla includes two species, G. gibbosa, Spin., 
and C.horrens, Dohrn., which live on leguminous crops and suck the 
juice. They are not injurious, though sometimes abundant on tur 
(Cajanus indicus). Their small reddish-brown eggs are frequently 
found in clusters on the pods of this plant. (Plate LXXV.) Stenoce- 
phalus lateralis, Chenn., is a graceful dark-coloured bug with a lateral 
light stripe on the hemelytra, found occasionally in abundance on low 
plants. 
Alydince.—Dulichius inflatus, Kby., is the remarkable bug which 
attracted attention from its resemblance to an ant, Polyrhachis spini- 
ger. Wroughton drew attention to this (Proc. Ent. Soc., London, 1891, 
p. xvii) and Rothney stated that where this ant lives on trees the bug 
is also arboreal and not, as Wroughton found, on the surface under 
stones. 
