184 GENUS PHATNOMA (hETEROPTERA) 



Phatnoma annulipes Chain])ion 



1901. Champion, Biol. Centr.-Am., Heteropt., ii, }>. 4. 



"Lighter or darker ochreous-brown, the expanded margins of the pronotum 

 and the elj^ra more or less mottled with fuscous, the fuscous markings on the 

 . costal area of the elytra sometimes forming fasciae, the apex of the clavus and 

 some spots on the carinae and costa black; the jironotal and elytral margins 

 partly hyaline; the antennae testaceous, with the apical joint more or less 

 black, the third joint sometimes infuscate; the legs testaceous, with the knees 

 usually infuscate, the femora with a more or less distinct yellow annulus before 

 the apex. Pronotum with the margins greatly raised, and very broadly and 

 ol)liquely dilated forwards, angularlj' produced in front and also at the sides 

 anteriorly, the anterior dilatation terminating in a short spine, the margin 

 rounded behind the outer angle; the disc closely punctured and tricarinate, the 

 outer carinae parallel. Elytra moderately broad, suboval, broadly rounded 

 at the apex; discoidal and subcostal areas separated by a sharply raised carina 

 which extends forwards to the base, the discoidal area limited inwards by a 

 curved carina which extends to near the tip of the elytra; the clavus and the 

 sutural, discoidal, and subcostal areas with very small rounded punctiform 

 areolae, the discoidal and subcostal areas each with about five transverse or 

 oblique pallid raised lines; costal area broad to the tip, closely reticulated, 

 there being five rows of areolae at the middle, increasing to six or seven behind. 

 Length 3J-4, breadth I^q-2-^-^ millim. 



Hab. Mexico, Frontera in Tabasco (H. H. Smith); Guatemala, Cahabon in 

 Vera Paz, San Lsidro (Champion); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion)." 



Several specimens from Alta Vera Paz, Guatemala, are in the 

 collection of the United States National Museum. 

 Phatnoma costalis Distant 



1909. Distant, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg., Hii, p. 113. 



1910. Distant, Fauna British India, v, p. 102. 



A copy of the original description is here given. This species 

 may be easily distinguished by the undulating longitudinal line 

 in the costal area of the elytra. 



"Pale brownish-ochraceous, the lateral areas of the pronotum and the costal, 

 subcostal and sutural areas of the elytra greyish; a small linear black spot in 

 the discoidal area and a similar spot ne'ar the apex of sutural area; body beneath 

 and legs reddish-brown; antennae with the third joint very long, apical joint 

 piceous at apex; pronotum tricarinate, the lateral areas greyish with the mar- 

 gins of the areolets brownish, the lateral margins ampliated and produced in 

 two strong stout spines; (!Ostal area of the elytra with small brown margined 

 areolets, a piceous unthilatcd line near its inner margin and small piceous spots 

 on its outer margin, the subcostal and discoidal areas with distinct jiale trans- 

 verse raised lines. Length 4 mill. 



Hab.: Tenasserim; Myitta (Doherty)." 



