. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entom Supp. 50 I. AHMAD Pronotal disc pale unicoloured, black spots on posterior angles sometimes present. Legs with apices of femora and bases of tibiae tinged with red. Hemielytra tinged brownish black. Abdomen with dorsum tinged with light brown, venter pale ochraceous. Posterior margin of seventh abdominal tergum truncate, pygophore elongated, thinner in middle, posterior margin emarginate (Text-fig. 138). <£ genitalia : Claspers long, uniformly thin and rounded at apices (Text-fig. 139) ; dorsal thecal appendages absent ; ventral pair
. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entom Supp. 50 I. AHMAD Pronotal disc pale unicoloured, black spots on posterior angles sometimes present. Legs with apices of femora and bases of tibiae tinged with red. Hemielytra tinged brownish black. Abdomen with dorsum tinged with light brown, venter pale ochraceous. Posterior margin of seventh abdominal tergum truncate, pygophore elongated, thinner in middle, posterior margin emarginate (Text-fig. 138). <£ genitalia : Claspers long, uniformly thin and rounded at apices (Text-fig. 139) ; dorsal thecal appendages absent ; ventral pair thinner at bases, thick and rounded at apices ; four left lateral conjunctival appendages as in Text-fig. 141 ; frontal conjunctival appendages paired, comparatively short and thick, left uniformly thin and curved ; four right lateral con- junctival appendages as in Text-fig. 141 ; dorsal appendage as in Text-fig. 141. $. Body length, 15-5-16-0 mm., width, 2-1-2-2 mm. Head length, 1-8-2-0 mm., width, I'3_I"35 mm. Antennae, segment I, 3-5-3-6 mm., II, 2-3-2-4 mm., Ill, 2-4-2-5 mm., IV, 3-9-4-1 mm. Rostrum, segment I, 1-3-1-4 mm., II, 1-4-1-5 mm., Ill, 0-7-0-8 mm., IV, 0-75-0-8 mm. Pronotum, length, 2-3-2-6 mm., width, 21-2-2 mm. Hind femora, 6-0-6-3 mm. Hind tibia, 6-3-6-6 mm. Distance between ocelli, 0-4-0-5 mm., distance between an ocellus and an eye, 0-66-0-7 mm. Very similar to 0* in general appearance and colour but usually larger ; posterior margin of seventh abdominal sternum with " U "-shaped indentation in the middle and curved towards extremities as in Text-fig. 142. $ genitalia : First gonocoxae with outer margin irregular, apices rounded (Text-fig. 146), almost triangular in external view ; intervalvular sacs absent ; spermatheca irregular, thicker in middle, with a long and coiled tube of varying thickness (Text-fig. 147).. 05 mm. Figs. 138-141. Stenocoris 138, terminalia, dorsal view ; 139, claspers, inner and outer views ; 140 head, do
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