PENTBIMIA. 



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2483. Penthimia castauea, IFalk. J. Linn. .S'wc, Zool. i, p. 98 (1856) ; 

 Atkins. J. A. 8. B. liv, p. 113 (1885). 



Castaneous-brown ; apical margin of vertex, face and head 

 beneath, disk of sternum, coxae, femora, posterior tibiae, and two 

 central elongate spots at base of abdomen beneath, black, at 

 lateral areas of mesonotum the black markings enclose a large 

 castaneous spot ; margins of ventral segments narrowly pale 

 ochraceous ; vertex short, broadly transverse, convexly rounded 

 in front, the posterior margin narrowly blackish ; pronotum de- 

 flected anteriorly, transversely wrinkled and obscurely punctate ; 

 scutellum with live pale spots — two on each lateral margin and one 

 at apex — the surface moderately transversely wrinkled ; apical 

 area of the tegmiua pale brownish-ochraceous with the veins 

 brown, black oblong spots in the ante-apical cells, smaller dark 

 spots in the apical cells, beyond apex of clavus a piceous-brown 

 spot containing three paler spots ; posterior tibia) longly, thickly 

 spinulose. 



Length 7 millim. 



Hah. Tenasserim {^fide Athinsoti). — Malacca {Wallace, Brit. 

 2Ihs.). 



The above description is taken from the unique Malaccan type 

 in the British Museum. 



2484. Penthimia subniger, sp. n. 



Castaneous above ; head, anterior area of pronotum and basal 

 ai]gles of scutellum black ; tegmina with a pale subcostal spot 



Fig. 154. — Penthimia subniger. 



near middle, the apical area subhyaline, where the veins arc 

 ochraceous and between which are a number of piceous spots ; 



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