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464 APPENDIX. PENTATOMID.E. 



Subfamily ACANTHOSOMATIN.^. (Vol. I, p. 313.) 



Genus PROTOPHANTASTA. (After Microdeuterus, 



Vol. I, p. 314.) 



Protophantasta, Bredd. Ges. Naturh. Freunde, 1903, p. 212. 



Type, P. colax, Bredd., from Sumatra. 



Distribution. Ceylon, Malaya. 



Head almost as long as pronotum, about as long as breadth 

 between eyes, lobes almost equally long, the lateral lobes with 

 their apices I'ounded and inwardly deflected, the lateral margins 

 concavely sinuate, narrower from eyes to apex, ocelli placed near 

 base and considerably wider apart than from eyes ; first joint of 

 antennae reaching or passing apex of head ; rostrum extending to 

 posterior coxae, the basal joint not quite reaching base of head ; 

 pronotum anteriorly a little wider than base of head, the lateral 

 mai'gins oblique, gibbous posteriorly, depressed anteriorly, a 

 transverse impressed line before anterior margin defining a 

 slightly raised interspace ; scutellum about as long as broad at 

 base; corium longer than membrane ; femora moderately thickened, 

 tibiae longitudinally grooved ; a central raised longitudinal process 

 between the anterior and intermediate coxae much more developed 

 in some species than in others ; abdomen with a short basal spine 

 variable in length, apical segment terminating in two long shghtly 

 upturned spines, posterior lateral angles of penultimate segment 

 distinctly spinously produced ; tarsi two-jointed. 



2742. Protophantasta forficuloides, Dist. Ann. Soc Ent. Behj. l 

 p. 409 (1906). 



Head, pronotum and scutellum black ; head with a longitudinal 

 fascia on each side of lateral lobe, uniting posteriorly and 

 narrowly reaching base, a narrow line traversing central lobe, 

 inner margins of eyes, and a small spot on each side of ocelli, 

 stramineous; pronotum with the lateral margins centrally de- 

 A-^eloped into a lateral spot, a central spot commencing on anterior 

 area and continued to disk, on each side of which anteriorly are 

 two small spots, stramineous ; scutellum with a large spot on each 

 lateral area before middle, and a large subapical transverse spot 

 which is indented anteriorly and angularly produced posteriorly, 

 stramineous ; corium very pale stramineous, darkly punctate with 

 piceous macular apical markings ; membrane hyaline ; head 

 beneath, sternum, and legs stramineous; anterior femora (excluding 

 base), apical halves of intermediate and posterior femora, meta- 

 sternum and abdomen beneath carmine-red; posterior margins of 



