STACK rOMIA. 



441 



Hab. Kumaon ; Bhiui Tal. 



I possess a single specimen of this species which may be placed 

 near C. 2^>'oducta, Dist. The spinous prouotal angles separate it 

 from any other species here enumerated, and give it an appearance 

 of belonging to the genus Aspavia. 



Genus STACHYOMIA. 



Staclivomia, St&l^ Of v. Vet.-Ak. Fork. 1870, p. 628; id. En. Hem. v, 



p. 89(1870). 



Type, S. vulnerahilis, from the Philippines. 



Distribution. Oriental and Malayan Kegions. 



Body broadly ovate, short, broad, convex beneath ; head short, 

 strongly deflected, lateral margins more or less concavely sinuate, 

 central lobe a little longer than the lateral lobes and moderately 

 projecting ; ocelli near eyes ; rostrum slightly passing the posterior 

 coxae ; antennae little more than half the length of the body, basal 

 joint not reaching apex of head; pronotum convex, before middle 

 strongly deflected, anterior margin not callously elevated, lateral 

 angles spiuulosely produced ; scutellum moderately 'convex, a little 

 shorter than the corium, apex broad, lateral margins sinuate near 

 middle ; prostei-num simple ; mesosternum distinctly carinate 

 odoriferous apertures slender, long, transverse; abdomen a little 

 broader than the hemelytra; legs of moderate length, unarmed; 

 posterior tarsi with the flrst joint short, first and second together 

 about equal in length to that of apical joint. 



Allied to Hoplistodera, from which it may be separated by the 

 carinate mesosternum. 



2722. Stachyomia thamada, sp. n. 



Head above flavescent, smooth, shining, the lateral areas 



testaceous, darkly punctate, extreme lateral 



margins 



and the 



Fig. 265. — Stachyomia thamada, 



margins of the lateral lobes black ; pronotum shining testaceous, 

 coarsely darkly punctate, the lateral margins broadly, a large 

 spot on the anterior disk, and some transverse spots between the 

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