Rhynchota .. . f the pronotum irregularly and dentately serrate, betweenthe anterior and lateral spines containing two concavities. Length 7 ; breadth between pronotal angles 4 millim. Hab. Khasi m\h {CJiemieU) ; Sibsagar (Co?Z. Z>i*s tarsaUs, Voll. ( Neerl. p. 42, t. 3, f. 8, 1863), as a variety of which in 1879(svj)ra) I enumerated some Assamese specimens. Dr. Horvathhas since described this form and made a genus for its reception,a course followed here. P. tarsalis, Voll., must be included inStorthecoris. Genus AMAUROPEPLA. Amain-opepla, SfcV, Ofi. lor/t. 1867, p. 502
Rhynchota .. . f the pronotum irregularly and dentately serrate, betweenthe anterior and lateral spines containing two concavities. Length 7 ; breadth between pronotal angles 4 millim. Hab. Khasi m\h {CJiemieU) ; Sibsagar (Co?Z. Z>i*s tarsaUs, Voll. ( Neerl. p. 42, t. 3, f. 8, 1863), as a variety of which in 1879(svj)ra) I enumerated some Assamese specimens. Dr. Horvathhas since described this form and made a genus for its reception,a course followed here. P. tarsalis, Voll., must be included inStorthecoris. Genus AMAUROPEPLA. Amain-opepla, SfcV, Ofi. lor/t. 1867, p. 502 ; ul. En. , p. 29 (1876). Type, A. clenticulata, Hagl. Distrihtdion. India, Burma. Differs from the tw o preceding genera (Podoj^s and StortJiecoris)in having the head gradually narrowed before the anteocularsinus ; the anterior lateral mai^gins of the pronotum are roundedand denticulate ; head somewhat flat, median lobe not elevated. Fig. 38.—Amauropej^la denticulata. 144. Amauropepla denticulata, Hcujl. Stett. ent. ZeU. xxix, p. 151 (1868).Browuish-ochraceous, thickly and darkly punctate ; head, an-terior area of pronotum, base,a central longitudinal line,and basal angles to scutellumpiceous, between the basalpatch and basal angles a smallluteous spot; antennae brown-ish-ochraceous : body beneathpiceous ; legs, rostrum, lateralmargins of meso- and meta-sterna, and abdomen ochra-ceous. Lateral lobes of the heada little longer than the centrnllobe, but widely divergent attheir apices; antenniferous tubercles spinous; rostrum short, not reaching the intermediate coxae. Length 8 to 9 ; breadth between pronotal angles 5 Assam {Coll. Dist.). Rangoon {StocJch. Mus.). Genus MELANOPHARA. Melanophara, Stdl, Of v. V^ Fork. 1807, p. 503 ; id. En. , p. 29 (1876). Type, M. dentaia, Hagl. Distrihution. India, Burma. This genus may be distingiiished from the preceding {Amauro-pepla) by having the la
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