456 APPENDIX. PENTATOMId. 



metapleura, its margins are neither elevated nor callous, near the 

 anterior margin the svirface is uniformly rugose, without punctu- 

 ration or to a feeble extent ; the femora are indefinitely punctate ; 

 abdomen beneath, except medianly, is covered with a kind of fine 

 wrinkles, and distinctly but not densely punctate, more feebly so 

 on the margins, it exhibits slight bluish reflections, medianly it is 

 nearly completely glossy ; the outlines of the stigmata and a small 

 spot situated behind them and continued towards the disk are 

 impunctate and without wrinkles ; antennse with the second joint 

 distinctly shorter than the third, that and the fourth subequal." 

 {^Scliouteden.) 



"Length $ inch membrane 18; breadth between pronotal angles 

 9 millira. 



Hah. Trichinopoly {fide ScJiouteden). 



I have not seen this species and have reproduced Schoutedeu's 

 description and figure. 



Genus AMYOTEA to replace Asopus. (Vol. I, p. 254.) 



I placed Amyotea, Ellenr. (1862) as a synonym of Asojnis, 

 Burm. (1834), as was generally done by systematists. Schouteden 

 has recently pointed out that Burmeister's genus is not the same 

 as that formerly proposed under the same name (Silb. Eev. Ent. 

 vol. ii, 1834). Amyotea must therefore take precedence. 



Subfamily TESSARATOMINtE. (Vol. I, p. 256.) 



Under this subfamily cf. remarks {ante p. 420) as to the proper 

 location of the genus Eumenotes, Westw. 



Genus MESOLEA. 

 Mesolea, Bredcl. Wieti. ent. Zeit. xxi, p. 99 (1902). 



Type, M. pedestris, Bredd. 



Distribution. Northern India. 



" Head small, somewhat longer than breadth between the eyes, 

 lateral lobes converging, before the central lobe contiguous, apices 

 minutely rounded ; pronotum both longitudinally and transversely 

 subconvex, the post-humeral area much shorter than the ante- 

 humeral area, posterior angles rounded, humeral angles projecting in 

 a prominent acute tooth, the anterior lateral margins before middle 

 somewhat rounded, behind middle slightly sinuate, the anterior 

 angles obscurely rounded ; scutellum a little longer than broad at 

 base, distinctly carinate, the postfrenal area broad, apex rounded ; 

 membranal suture outwardly rounded, inwardly sinuated, membrane 

 small (somewhat shortened ?), furnished with veins running from 

 the subbasal nerve ; abdomen broadly oval, on each side broadly 

 extending beyond the edge of the hemelytra, the apical angles of 

 the segments prominent as acuminate rectangular teeth ; abdomen 

 beneath apparently altogether destitute of a median carination, 



