434 APPENDIX. PENTATOMIDjE. 



2713. Dalpada melania, sp. n. 



Body above blackish ; membr3,ne shining jet-black ; head above 

 with the lateral margins, a central longitudiual ridge, and the inner • 

 margins of the eyes obscure ochraceous or testaceous ; prouotum 

 with some obscnre testaceous mottlings, the most prominent of 

 which is a central longitudinal line not extending beliiud middle ; 

 scutellum with a short testaceous line near each basal angle and 

 some irregular scattered testaceous or ochraceous spots on apical 

 area; corium with a purplish tint and finely spotted with ochra- 

 ceous excepting on posterior disk ; connexivum with transverse 

 yellow spots , body beneath blackish, disk of abdomen brownish- 

 ochraceous ; legs blackish mottled with brovvnish-ochraceous ; 

 coxse ochraceous, posterior tibiae beneath with the basal two-thirds 

 greyish ; antennsB black, bases of first and fifth joints luteous, 

 basal joint robust, nut reaching apex of head, second and fourth 

 joints subequal iu length, each longer than third ; liead rugulose, 

 its apex roundly truncate, anterior lateral angles prominent, 

 obtusely acute ; pronotum coarsely punctate and subrugulose, 

 anterior lateral margins crenulate, posterior angles rounded, subno- 

 dulose, inwardly furrowed ; scutellum thickly punctate, longitudi- 

 nally foveately depressed at each lateral area, obscurely centrally 

 longitudiually ridged on apical area ; corium thickly finely 

 punctate ; rostrum extending beyond posterior coxae ; abdomen 

 broadly centrally sulcate on basal area. 



Length 17 ; breadth between pronotal angles 9 millim. 



Hah. Nepal ; Nagorkote. 



Genus ERTHESINA. (Vol. I, p. 117.) 



2714. Erthesina roljertsi, sp. n. 



Head above piceous, central lobe (excluding base and apex), 

 lateral margins (widened anteriorly but not reaching apex) and 

 eyes pale castaneous ; antennae brownish-ochraceous ; pronotum, 

 scutellum and corium testaceous-brown, darkly punctate, anterior 

 marginal area of pronotum and basal area of scutellum piceous or 

 black ; membrane piceous, the apical margin paler ; body beneath 

 and legs pale castaneous, apex of rostrum piceous ; head as long 

 as pronotum, coarsely rugulosely punctate, latei*al margins 

 obscurely toothed or notched before apex ; auteimae with the 

 basal joint a little thickened, not nearly reaching apex of head, 

 second and tbird joints subequal, each a little shorter than fourth ; 

 pronotum coarsely rugulosely punctate, the anterior lateral 

 margins shortly crenulate, an obscure central carination on 

 anterior half, the punctures near anterior margin smaller and 

 closer together ; scutellum more strongly transversely rugulose 

 on basal area ; corium thickly finely punctate ; rostrum extending 



