422 APPENDIX. — PENTATOMID^. 



abdomen, foveately impressed on each side near basal angles ; legs 

 robust, tibse spinulose ; tarsi with the apical joint longest. 



The position of this genus seems to be after the Plataspidinse 

 and near the genus Tliyreocoris which is placed by Lethierry and 

 Severin in their subfamily Corimelfenidte. Thyreocoris by Stfil and 

 other authorities is included in the Cj^dninse, but Signoi'et, who 

 monographed that subfamily, does not enumerate it therein. 



2G98. Carrabas maurus, sp. n. 



Black, shining, tarsi ochraceous ; head concave, granulose ; 

 antennae brownish-ochraceous, the basal joint and apical area of 

 the last joint pieeous-brown ; pronotum and scutellum thickly 

 finely punctate, the first with the lateral margins a little laminate; 



Fig. 256.— Car rahas maurus. 



scutellum distinctly foveate on each side of basal margin ; connexi- 

 vum^slightly exposed and with an ochraceous spot near middle. 



Length 4 ; max. breadth 2i millim. 



Hah. Madras {StehUng). 



On Casuarina {E. P. StehUng). 



Subfamily SCUTELLERIN^E. (Vol. I, p. 38.) 



Genus CHRYSOCORIS. (Vol. I, p. 54.) 



2699. Clirysocoris iris, Germ. (Uahiphara) Zeitschr.f. Ent. \, p. 128 

 (1839) ; Herr.-Schliff. Wanz. Lis. v, p. 80, f. 526 (1839) ; Sc/wtd. 

 (Eucorysses) Wytsm. Gen. Ins. fasc. xxiv, p. 34 (1904). 



Callidea sexmaculatus, VoU. Faun. Ind. Neerl. i, p. 18, pi. 1, f. 7 

 (1863). 



Var. sultanina, Bredd. Soc. Ent. xviii, p. 75 (1903). 



Purplish-red with bluish reflections ; head with the base, narrow 

 margins to central lobe, and the antennae black ; pronotum with 

 the centre of anterior margin, a central subcordate spot on disk, 

 and the posterior margin in front of scutellum (broadened inwardly 

 at each end) black ; scutellum with a spot at each basal angle, two 



