Rhynchota .. . cies. Distribution. Central and South Africa and Madagascar; onespecies said to be Indian. Allied to Hotea, from which it can be at once distinguished bythe shorter and less acuminate head, the non-angulated lateralangles of the pronotum, the more profoundly sukated sternum, &c. 124. Deroplax diffiua, Walk. (Ilottar) Cat. Het. \, p. 57. 7 (1867);IHst. A. M. K. H. (7) iv, p. 45 (1899). Testaceous, elliptical, very minulely punctured. Head slightlyrostriform, with two black longitudinal lines, \Ahich in the forepart are accompanied by t\AO slight furrows. Thorax somewhat ALPHOCOEI
Rhynchota .. . cies. Distribution. Central and South Africa and Madagascar; onespecies said to be Indian. Allied to Hotea, from which it can be at once distinguished bythe shorter and less acuminate head, the non-angulated lateralangles of the pronotum, the more profoundly sukated sternum, &c. 124. Deroplax diffiua, Walk. (Ilottar) Cat. Het. \, p. 57. 7 (1867);IHst. A. M. K. H. (7) iv, p. 45 (1899). Testaceous, elliptical, very minulely punctured. Head slightlyrostriform, with two black longitudinal lines, \Ahich in the forepart are accompanied by t\AO slight furrows. Thorax somewhat ALPHOCOEIS. 67 rouudecl along the hind border, angular on each side, contracted in front; two slight andinterrupted black lines; atransverse lanceolate ferru-ginous-bordered mark oneach side near the foreborder. Scutellum with ashort longitudinal streak oneach side, composed ofminute black speckles. *(WaU-er.) Length 9 millim. Ifab. Hiudostan (Brit,Mm.).No more precise locality for the unique type has been Fig. 29.—Beroplax diffuse Division ODONTOTARSARIA. Odontotarsaria, Stdl, En. Hem. ill, p. 4 (1873). Head as long as broad or longer ; anterior lateral margins of thepronotum not or very slightly rounded; orifices not distinguishable;second joint of antennae straight. Genus ALPHOCORIS. Alphocoris, Germ. Zeitschr. i, p. 58 (1839) ; Dall. List Hem. i, p. 6(1851); St&l, Hem. Afr. i. pp. 35 & 60 (1864).] Type, A. Uxoides, Germ. Distribution. Throughout Africa ; North characters as diagnosed above {Odontotarsaria) and asshown in figure below. 125. Alphocoris lixoides, Germ. Zeitschr. i, p. 59. 1, t. 1. f. 3 (1839). Ochraceous; lateral areas andapex of head, four longitudinalfasciae, two on each lateral area,crossing pronotum and scutellum,and two central lines to scutellumpiceous: body beneath and legspiceous, thickly greyishly tomen-tose, lateral margins of sternumand abdomen more or less ochra-ceous ; antennae, rostrum, and tarsiochraceous. Length 8 to S| ; brea
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