Rhynchota .. . 131.—Dcgonetus serratus. Genus PLACOSTERNUM. Placosteruum, Amy. Sj- Sew. Hem. p. 174 (1843). Type, P. taiirus, Fabr. Distribution. India, Malay Peninsula, and China. Body broad, robust; lateral margins of the head gradually rounded and entire, laterallobes a little longer thanthe central, separate at theirapices; antennae with thebasal joint not nearly reachingapex of head ; rostrum aboutreaching the intermediatecoxae ; pronotum broad, lateralmargins dentate, lateral anglesproduced, their apices more orless truncate ; meso sternumAvith a central prominentrobust ridge terminating
Rhynchota .. . 131.—Dcgonetus serratus. Genus PLACOSTERNUM. Placosteruum, Amy. Sj- Sew. Hem. p. 174 (1843). Type, P. taiirus, Fabr. Distribution. India, Malay Peninsula, and China. Body broad, robust; lateral margins of the head gradually rounded and entire, laterallobes a little longer thanthe central, separate at theirapices; antennae with thebasal joint not nearly reachingapex of head ; rostrum aboutreaching the intermediatecoxae ; pronotum broad, lateralmargins dentate, lateral anglesproduced, their apices more orless truncate ; meso sternumAvith a central prominentrobust ridge terminatingpointedly between the anteriorcosje, this ridge is posteriorlyunited to a central metasternalFig. 132.—Placosternum tauriis. elevation which is sinuate behind and receives the shortbroad basal spine of the abdomen. VOL. I. P. 210 PE>:. 337. Placosternmn taurus, Fahr. (Cimex) Spec Ins. ii, p. .•J44 (1781) ; id. (Edessa) Syst. Rhyny. p. 145 (1803); Ami/, S)- Serv. 174(1843). Ochraceous, coarsely blackly punctate, the punctures frequentlyconfluent and forming irregular black spots or patches, of whichthe most prominent are two transverse and linear on anteiiorarea, t\\ o irregularly rounded on disk of pronotum, and two onanterior aiea of scutelliim; antennae piceous, bases of the jointsochraceous: body beneath and legs as above ; lateral areas ofsternum and abdomen and abdominal incisures more or lessconfluently blackly punctate; the apices of the pronotal anglesare truncate and bisinuate, thus being obtusely triangulate. Length 24 to 25; breadth between pronotal angles 10 to 17luillim. Hah. Sikhim. N. Khasi Hills (CAouieZ?). Coc\\\u {CoU. Dist.).Burma ; Bhamo {Fea).—Siam. 338. Placosterimm alces, Stdl, En. Hem. v, p. 107 (1870). Closely allied to P. taurus, Fabr., and differing princip
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