Rhynchota Volume 1 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 Excerpt: ...inner margins of eyes, and a marginal spot above insertion of antennae indigo-black; pronotum with all the margins, a central longitudinal fascia and a transverse fascia across anterior disk, ochraceous; scutellum with the apex, central and lateral fasciae ochraceous; corium with the base of lateral margin, connected with inner angle and apical margin, claval margins and veins ochraceous; all these ochraceous markings are sometimes more or less suffused with reddish-ochraceous: body beneath ochraceous, with a double central and submarginal series of indigo-black spots, a large spot of the same colour at base of apical segment; legs black, femora streaked with ochraceous; antennae black. Length 13 to 16 millim. Hab. Assam; Harmatti (Ind. Mus.); Naga Hills (Doherty). Burma; Kakhyen Kauri (Fea). Tenasserim; Thagata (Fea); Tavoy (Ind. Mus.).--Common in the Malay Peninsula and received from Java and Sumatra. Genus STRACHIA. Strachia, Hahn, Wanz. i, p. 180 (1831); StSl, Stett. ent. Zeit, xxiii, p. 105(1862). Type, S. crucigera, Hahn. Distribution. Oriental and Ethiopian Regions. Elongately subovate; head triangular, lobes of about equal length, lateral margins strongly reflexed, basal joint of antennae extending but little beyond apex of head; pronotum sexangular, anterior and anterior lateral margins reflexed, the lateral margins strongly sinuate; femora in male incrassate; basal joint of posterior tarsi shorter than the two apical joints taken together. 319. Strachia crucigera, Hahn, Wanz. i, p. 184, f. 95 (1831). Strachia flammula, Ellenr. Nat. Tijdscbr. Nederl. Ind. xxiv, p. 153, f. 23 (1862). Var. Strachia strangulata, Wlk. Cat. Het. ii, p. 344. 90 (1867). Stenozygum strangulatum, Leth. S; Sev. Cat. Gen. m. i, p. 156 (1893). Black; head with one ...