124 ADDENDA. PENTATOMlDyE. 



3692. Asylana punjabensis, sp. n. 



Head black, thickly punctate, w ith a central narrow, levigate, 

 longitudinal, linear, ocliraceous stripe; pronotum black, coarsely 

 punctate and rugulose, the basal two-thirds paler, a central cruci- 

 form, longitudinal, narrow fascia, and a shorter and very irregular 

 longitudinal stripe on each lateral area, levigate, ochraceous, the 

 anterior margin also narrow ly ochraceous ; scutellum black, 

 coarsely punctate and rugulose, the rugosities somewhat casta- 

 neous on apical area; abdomen above black, the connexivum marked 

 with ocliraceous near the middle of the segments ; head beneath 

 and sternum blackly punctate, base of head and lateral margins and 

 areas oF prosternum more or less ochraceous ; abdomen beneath 

 pale castaneous, blackly punctate, prominently spotted with black 

 on the terminal segments ; legs ochraceous, femora somewhat 

 thickly blackly punctate, bases and apices of tibiae black : corium 

 ochraceous, thickly spotted with black ; membrane bronzy brown ; 

 structural characters as in generic diagnosis. 



Length 17; breadth between pronotal angles 9^ niillim. 



Hah. Punjab ; Simla {N. Renouf). 



Genus PHRICODUS. 



Phricodus, Spin. Bev. Maq. Zool. 1839, p. 331 ; <S'/f°/, Hem. Afr. 



i, p. 91 (1865) ; ulEntim. Hem. v, p. 49 (1876). 

 Stenotoma, Westiv. Proc. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1841, p. cxix ; id. Trunin. 



Ent. Soc. Lond. iv, p. 248 (1847). 



Type, P. hystrix. Germ. 



Bistrihution. South and Central Africa, Madagascar, Mauritius, 

 India. 



Body ovate, depressed ; head on each side before eyes armed 

 with a long spine, lateral lobes longer than the central lobe and 

 produced in long spines, the antenniferous tubercles also longly 

 spinous : antennae four-jointed, long, first joint short and incrassated, 

 second long and apically incrassated, third and fourth joints 

 distinctly thickened and fusiform ; rostrum extending to posterior 

 coxae, first joint reaching base of head ; ]n-onoturn with the lateral 

 margin with long spines ; scutellum triangular, the apical area 

 strongly narrowed; sternum subsuhate : apical angles of the 

 abdominal segments moderately prominent ; legs with the upper 

 surface of the tibiae sulcate. 



3693, Phricodus hystrix, Germ. (Aradus) Silh. Rev. Ent. v, p. 134 



(1837) ; Spin. (Phricodus) Rev. Mag. Zool. 1839, p. 331, pi. 40 



(1839); Sign. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1849, p. 327, pi. ix, fig. 3 ; 



Bist. Bull. Ent. Res. iv, pt. 2, Sept. (1913) ; id. A. M. N. H. 



(8) xii, p. 283 (J 913). 

 Stenotoma desjardinsii, West^L•. T^-nns. Ent. Soc. Lond. iv, p. 249, 



pi. 18, tio-. 6 (1847). 

 Phricodus f;\sciatus, Sign. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (3) viii, p. 924 



(1861). 



