Rhynchota .. . between the lateral angles, from which it is obliquelydeflected towards head; Iostrum reaching the posterior coxae;membrane short. Abdomen with a short basal spinous tubercleabout reaching the metasternal process. 377. Paterculus affinis, Dist. (Plexippus) A. M. N. H. (7) v, p. 387(1900). Dull ochraceous, thickly and darkly punctate, the colorationdistinctly darker on the head and anterior half of pronotum ; bodybeneath and legs very pale ochraceous ; abdominal stigmatal spotsblack, a castaneous spot on apical segment; abdomen above reddish-ochraceous, the apical area violaceous
Rhynchota .. . between the lateral angles, from which it is obliquelydeflected towards head; Iostrum reaching the posterior coxae;membrane short. Abdomen with a short basal spinous tubercleabout reaching the metasternal process. 377. Paterculus affinis, Dist. (Plexippus) A. M. N. H. (7) v, p. 387(1900). Dull ochraceous, thickly and darkly punctate, the colorationdistinctly darker on the head and anterior half of pronotum ; bodybeneath and legs very pale ochraceous ; abdominal stigmatal spotsblack, a castaneous spot on apical segment; abdomen above reddish-ochraceous, the apical area violaceous ; connexivum darkly punc-tate, with small black marginal spots at incisures ; antennae fuscous,apical joint ochraceous, apices of fourth and fifth joints piceous,second joint much shorter than the third, third and fourth subequal 234 PENTATOMID-D. in length ; pronotum with the lateral margins distinctly piceous,the anterior lateral and anterior margins narrowly ocliraceous;Iostrum reaching the posterior Fig. 147.— Patcrcuhis ;. Length 11 millim. Hah. Sikhim {uitlinson Coll). Naga Hills (Coll. Dist.).—Alsoreceived from West Yunnan. 37S. Paterculus vittatus, Dist. (Plexippus) Tr. E. S. 1901, p. 109. Dull ocliraceous, thickly and darkly punctate, the colorationdistinctly darker on the head and anterior half of pronotum, whichis separated by a transverse levigate fascia : body beneath paleochraceous, the lateral areas of the sternum, a longitudinal fasciaon each side of abdomen, the stigmata, and a spot on apicalsegment piceous ; legs ochraceous ; antennae ochraceous, apex ofthird, more than apical half of fourth, and apical half of fifth jointpiceous, second and third joints subequal in length. Length 11 millim. Hah. Burma; Karennee (Fea). Genus DABESSUS, nov. Type, D. repellens, Kirby. Distribution. Ceylon, Malay Peninsula. Body elongate; head broad, rounded in front, lobes of almostequal length, margins slightly retiexed ; basal joint of antenmestout, not
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