442 APPENDIX. PENTATOMID.i:. 



lateral angles flavescent, callous, smooth and shining; scutellum 

 pale testaceous, with two somewhat large basal spots and two 

 similar spots on each lateral margin black, a few black punctures 

 on disk, and some coarsely prominent ones on the posterior lateral . 

 margins ; corium pale tawny-brown, thickly punctate ; membrane 

 pale hyaline shaded with pale fuscous ; connexivum ochraceous 

 with prominent kblac spots ; body beneath and legs pale ochraceous, 

 a spot at lateral margins of mesosternum, spots to lateral margin 

 of abdomen beneath, the basal spot largest, and a spot on anal 

 segment, black ; pronotal angles spinously transversely produced, 

 subsanguineous, their apices black ; pronotum with a pale central 

 longitudinal line ; antennae flavescent, second joint shorter than 

 third. 



Length G^ ; breadth between pronotal angles 5 millim. 



Hah. Burma; Kangoon (Coll Bint.). 



Allied to S. luteonaria, Dist., but differing by the less sinuate 

 lateral margins of the pronotum, shorter pronotal spines, different 

 markings to the scutellum, &c. 



HOPLISTOBEBA BECUEVA, Dist, (Vol. I, p. 178.) 



I have seen more specimens of this species since I described it, 

 and there is a not infrequent varietal form in which there are two 

 large dark spots very narrowly divided on the apical area of the 

 scutellum. 



To the habitat given may be added Nepal. 



EUBYDEMA LITURIEERUil, Walk. (Vol. I, p. 191.) 



In addition to the varieties of this variable species, Bred din 

 (Wien. ent. Zeit. xxvi, p. 94, 1907) has described two other forms 

 from Kashmir, to which we think he has unnecessarily given 

 distinct names, viz. hypomelan and liypopcecilum. 



Genus PARASTRACHIA. 



Parastrachia, Dist. Tr. E. S. 1883, p. 424 ; Schout. Wytsm. Gen. Ins. 



fasc. lii, p. 54 (1907). 

 Asopus, How. {nee Silb.) Tennesz. Fuzetek, xxii, p. 374 (1899). 

 Amyotea, Horv. nee Ellend)'. torn. cit. 



Type, P. japonensis, Scott, from Japan. 



Distribution. Eastern Palaearctic and Oriental Regions. 



Body elongate and ovate ; head large, the lateral lobes longer 

 than the central lobe, not meeting in front, the lateral margins 

 slightly ampliated and very strongly reflexed ; antennae with the 

 basal joint passing the apex of the head ; pronotum with the lateral 

 margins reflexed, the anterior lateral margins ampliated, the anterior 

 angles subacute, the posterior angles somewhat broadly rounded 

 and subprominent ; scutellum long, the lateral margins almost 

 straight, the apex attenuated, the basal portion moderately gibbous 



