440 



capsid.t:. 



and centrally longitudinally incised or sulcated ; antenna? inserted 

 in front of but on a level with the inner margin of tlie eyes, with 

 the first joint about as long as the head and pronotum together, 

 its apex moderately incrassated ; pronotum strongly constricted 

 before the middle, posterior margin more than twice the width of 

 anterior ; scutellum with a long more or less erect horn or spine, 

 its apex clavate ; legs moderately long and slender, femora 

 nodulose. 



All the species known are destructive pests to plants, and some 

 attacking tea are formidable enemies to plantations. 



a. Scvfellar horn nearly straicjht and perjiendlcidai 



1393. 



Helopeltis aiitonii, Supi. Ann. Soc Ent. 

 p. o02; Waterh. Tr. Ent. Soc. 1886, p. 

 Tri77ieu, Nature, xxx, p. 615 (1884). 



6 . Head 



Er. (?,) vi. 18-58, 

 458, pi. xi, f. 4: 



/ 



Fig. 285. — Helopeltis anfonii. 

 $ . Pronotum and most 



of 



and pronotum 

 black, anterior margin of 

 pronotum narrowly obscurely 

 ochi-aceous ; rostrum obscure 

 ochraceous, more or less suif used 

 with f uscouf, prominently so at 

 apex ; antennae shining piceous, 

 ochraceous at base; scutellum 

 black, testaceous at apex ; 

 hemelytra pale olivaceous-fus- 

 cous ; legs brown, speckled 

 with ochraceous ; bases of femora 

 distinctly ochraceous ; abdomen 

 beneath luteous, with a basal 

 spot and the apex black ; scu- 

 tellar horn nearly straight and 

 perpendicular, 

 the scutellum purplish-red, the 



transverse constriction to the fii'st sometimes piceous. 



Length 6 to 1h millim. 



Hah. Ceylon (Green). Tenasserim ; Myitta {Doherty). 



According to the late Dr. Triinen, this insect causes serious 

 damage on cacao-plantations. 



b. Seutellar liora more or less distincthi curved hackivards. 



1394. Helopeltis theivora, Waterh. Tr. E. S. 1886, p. 458, t. xi, f. 3 : 

 3Ioore, ined. 

 ? Helopeltis febriculosa, Berrjr. Ent. Month. Mat/, xxv, p. 271 

 (1889). 



c? . Head and pronotum shining black, much resembling tlie 

 same sex of the preceding species {H. antomi), but with the 

 seutellar horn more curved backward at ajjcx. 



2 . Black, pronotum bright shining stramineous or ochraceous, 



