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APPENDIX. PENTATOMID^. 



angles distinctly though moderately nodulose; scutellum long, 

 narrowed posteriorly, the lateral margins of the apical area 

 perpendicular, thickly finely punctate, obscurely transversely 

 wrinkled ; corium with the posterior discal area piceous. 



Length 3 millim. 



Hob. Burma: Eangoon {Coll. Dist.). 



The opaque coloration, the dense puncturation and the somewhat 

 flattened body are the principal characteristics of this species. 



Genus CHILOCORIS. (Vol. I, p. 104.) 



1^708. Chilocoris ? assmuthi, Bredd. (Chilocoris) Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. 

 xlviii, p. 407 (1904). 



" Dark piceous-brown, shining, legs (excepting tibial spines), 

 rostrum and antennae, the coxal cavities outwardly and posterior 

 borders of metasternura, hind angles as well as narrow outer 

 border of the front pleura (the marginal line itself piceous- 

 brown), and the tegmina with the epipleurse whitish- yellow, the 

 impressed line of the corium near claval suture and a short dotted 

 line in inner basal angle of clavus narrowly piceous-brown ; 

 posterior margin of pronotum and the outer margin (the latter 



Fig. 258. — CMlocorist assmuthi. 



suddenly narrowing in front and gradually disappearing) pale 

 rusty-yellow ; antennal joints 3-5 slightly infuscated ; membrane 

 hyaline ; surface of vertex very slightly prominent, without 

 distinct puncturation, the border lying before the eyes semicircular, 

 armed with about sixteen distinct little ' stiftchen ' ; ocelli almost 

 touching the inner margins of the eyes, immediately before each 

 a bristle-bearing cavity-impression, juga in about the middle of its 

 surface with large, flat, round cavity-impressions ; pronotum just 

 before the middle with an impressed transverse line, not or very 

 obsoletely punctured, about 5 or (5 little dots on the posterior area 



