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TINGIDID.5:. 



Genus PHATNOMA. 



Phatuoma, Fieher, Ent. Mono<jr. pp. 30 & 57 (1844) : StaJ, En. 

 Hem. iii, p. 117 (1873) ; Champ. Biol. Centr.-Amer., Rhyiich. n, 

 p. 2 (1897). 



Type, P. laciniata, Fieb. 



Distribution. Oriental, Ethiopian, and Neotropical Regions. 



Eostrum extending considerably beyond the metasternum ; 

 buccal laminse prominent, projecting Ijeyond the front of the 

 head ; antennse moderately Jong, with the two basal joints short 

 and incrassate, the third very long, the fourth moderately fusiform 

 and longer than first and second t<^gether ; head with three por- 

 rect frontal spines, two slender spines behind and two others in 

 front, and slender spiniform antenniferous tubercles ; pronotum 

 with the base truncate, sometimes bisinuate, leaving the scutellum 

 exposed, the ampliated margins generally acutely, sometimes con- 

 vexly dilated anteriorly, tricarinate on disk ; elytra with clavus 

 and the usual areas well defined, discoidal and subcostal areas with 

 transverse raised lines ; legs slender. 



889. Phatnoma laciniata, Fieher, Ent. Monogr. p. 57, pi. iv, ff". 33- 

 38 (1844). 



Pale brownish-ochraceous, lateral ex- 

 panded areas of the pronotum and costal 

 areas of the elytra paler ; lateral pronotal 

 areas finely areolate and produced in two 

 strong, prominent, dentate spinous angula- 

 tions, the disk with three central longi- 

 tudinal carina), of which the two lateral are 

 a little curved and anteriorly abbreviated ; 

 claval suture elevated ; elytra with the 

 discoidal and subcostal areas with distinct 

 transverse raised lines ; costal area thickly 

 finely areolate ; head anteriorly porrectly 

 spinous. 



Length 4 millim. 



Hah. " East India " {Heifer). Ceylon 

 {8. Green). 



Fig. 90. 

 'Phatnoma laciniata. 



Division SERENTHIARIA. 

 Serenthiaria, Stdl, En. Hem. iii, p. 116 (1873). 



Head not prominently produced in front of insertion of antennse ; 

 bucculse or buccal laminae not anteriorly prominent ; pronotum 

 without anterior vesicle or hood; hemelytra usually with the 

 discal areas absent or obsoletely defined ; lateral margins not or 

 very moderately dilated. 



A small division, but very imperfectly known outside the Palse- 

 arctic Region. 



