PENTATOMID^. 



transverse, central lobe quite surrounded by the lateral lobes, 

 which are longer ; eyes moderately transverse ; ocelli a little 

 farther apart from each other than from eyes ; pronotum with 

 the anterior lateral margins a little ampliated. 



5. Ponsila montana, Dist. A. M. N. H. (7) viii, p. 234 (1901). 



Body above shining black ; head in front of eyes, eyes, lateral 



margins and an oblique 

 line joining subanterior 

 margin of pronotum, lateral 

 and posterior margins of 

 scutellura and a small spot 

 near each basal angle, head 

 beneath, antennae, lateral 

 margins of sternum, ros- 

 trum and legs ochraceous ; 

 sternum piceous, opaque : 

 abdomen mutilated; fourth 

 and fifth joints of antennae 

 piceous. Head with the 

 anterior area transverse, 

 concavely excavated, the anterior angles obtusely prominent, the 

 central lobe and anterior and lateral margins piceous ; pronotum 

 and scutellum thickly and finely punctate ; pronotum with a 

 somewhat obscure transverse impression on anterior area. 

 Length 5| ; max, breadth 5 millim. 

 Hah. Naga Hills {Doherty). 



Fig. 5. — Poiixila monfana. 



Genus BRACHYPLATYS. 



Coptosoma, subg. Platvcephala, Lap. Ess. Hem. p. 73 (1832). 

 Bracliyplatys, h'oisd. Voy. Astr., Ent. ii, p. 627 (1835) ; Dull. List 



Hem. \, p. 61 (1851) : ^ Stlil, Hem. Afr. i, p. 8 (1864) ; id. En. Hem. 



V, p. 4 (1876). 



Type, B. vanikorensis, Boisd., from New Caledonia and adjacent 

 islands. 



Distribution. Oriental, Australasian, and Ethiopian Regions. 



Body broadly ovate and generally slightly convex above, flat 

 beneath ; head foliaceous, transverse, broad, broadly rounded at 

 the apex ; vertex broader than the eyes ; antennae remote from 

 the eyes, the first joint not longer than the third ; eyes moderately 

 transverse, not oblique, slightly immersed, prominent ; ocelli a 

 little farther from each other than from the eyes ; pronotum about 

 one-half broader than the head. As pointed out by Westwood, 

 the scutellum in the J is notched and in the ? entire. 



