. The annals and magazine of natural history : zoology, botany, and geology . ining black, coriummore purplish black, membrane pale ochraceous, subhyaline,darker on basal area ; head practically impunctate, the ocellired, near eyes and far apart from each other; pronotumsparsely but distinctly punctate on posterior half, the extremelateral margins acute; scutellum (excluding base and apex)very coarsely punctate; corium thickly finely punctate;antennae pitchy brown ; anterior and intermediate legs pitchybrown, posterior legs piceous; other structural characters asin generic diagnosis. Long. 6 m
. The annals and magazine of natural history : zoology, botany, and geology . ining black, coriummore purplish black, membrane pale ochraceous, subhyaline,darker on basal area ; head practically impunctate, the ocellired, near eyes and far apart from each other; pronotumsparsely but distinctly punctate on posterior half, the extremelateral margins acute; scutellum (excluding base and apex)very coarsely punctate; corium thickly finely punctate;antennae pitchy brown ; anterior and intermediate legs pitchybrown, posterior legs piceous; other structural characters asin generic diagnosis. Long. 6 mm. Hab. N. Australia ; Alexandria {W. Stalker, Brit. Mus.). Mr. W. L. Distant on Pentatomldge. 339 Gambiana^ gen. subobloncr ; head longer than, broad between eyes,lateral lobes a little longer than the central lobe, but notmeeting beyond it, the lateral margins distinctly reflexed,rounded at apices, a distinct curved spine a little outwardlydirected in front of each eye; antennse five-jointed, joints 1to 4 almost subequal in length, basal joint not quite reaching. Gumbiana asper, \\alk. apex of head; pronotum about twice as broad at base aslong, roundly deflected towards head, lateral margins roundlyoblique, lateral angles subprominent, very distinctly toothed,between them a transverse impression, and a central longi-tudinal ridge which neither reaches the anterior nor theposterior margin, anterior area irregularly sculptured orrugose; scutellum much longer than broad, apparentlyreaching the abdominal apex (abdomen mutilated in type),strongly sinuate on each side near base, apex broadly trun-cate, a very distinct central basal rounded foveation, themargins of which are strongly ridged and continued poste-riorly for a short distance on disk; corium exposed on eachside for about two-thirds the length of scutellum; rostrumreaching the posterior coxae ; abdomen mutilated. This genus is founded on, and intended to elucidate, thespecies described by Walker as Podops asper,
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