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Dendrocoris contaminatus^ New sp. 

 Flavo-testaceous, punctate with brown, the anterior lobe 

 of pronotum black, which color is interrupted in the middle 

 and angularly expanded just before the humeri, the 

 middle of disk of posterior lobe marked with two black 

 dots. Broad suboval, the head narrow, and obliquely 

 narrowing to the tip, blackish and roughly punctate with 

 black, the base between the eyes and lateral lobes with 

 several coarse wrinkles which are bounded by scratched 

 lines, the t3des enclosed at tip by the converging lateral 

 lobes; antennce moderately slender, the first joint a little 

 swollen and. thicker than the others, subequal in length^ 

 to the second joint and about two-thirds the length of the 

 third, the third longest, the fourth nearly equal, a little 

 shorter than the third, points of articulation of all the 

 joints blackish; rostrum pale luteous, sometimes tinged 

 with rufous, reaching to the middle of the posterior coxae, 

 the middle line and apex dark piceous. Pronotum two- 

 and-a-half times wider than long, pale luteous, sometimes 

 tinged with fuscous, marked with black as recited above, 

 closely, in part roughly punctate with fuscous, occasionally 

 with rufous or pale punctures, the callosities polished, 

 curved, lateral margins gradually sinuated, pale, punctate 

 with obsolete granules anteriorly, humeral angles moder- 

 ately prominent, a little triangularly rounded, blunt, 

 almost emarginated, the latero-posterior margin short, 

 very moderately oblique, a little sinuated, the posterior 

 margin straight. Scutellum longer than wide, rugosely 

 punctate with blackish, mostly in transverse, wavy lines; 

 back of the middle is a pale, parallel-sided, almost bald, 

 callous stripe, which connects indistinctly with the pale 

 apex, the base with a small pale spot in each angle, and 

 sometimes with two or three small streaks along the 

 middle border. Corium punctate with fuscous, and having 

 callous, uneven intervals of the punctures, seam bounding 



