16 PENTATOMID^. 



with the anterior area ochraceous, levigate, with an obUque fascia 

 of black punctures on each anterior lateral area, and with a similar 

 fascia obliquely extending from each lateral angle and united with 

 a transverse fascia — centrally broken — across anterior disk, 

 remaining area somewhat thickly reticulately marked with piceous ; 

 seutellum thickly reticulately marked with piceous, with a distinct 

 black arcuated spot behind the basal transverse elevation. Body 

 beneath piceous ; head beneath, presternum, legs, rostrum, 

 abdominal margins and inner ray-like fasciae, ochraceous ; antennae 

 piceous, first and second joints ochraceous. 



Length 6 ; max. breadth 4 millim. 



Hah. Ceylon (G. Lewis). 



Genus FIEBERISCA. 

 Fieberisca, Montand. A?i7i. Soc. Ent. Behj. xl, p. 98 (1896). 



Type, F. omata, Montand. 



Distribution. At present only reported from India, and from 

 no precise locality. 



According to Montandou this genus comes between Coptosoma 

 and Tiarocoris. It is allied to the last-named genus by the shape 

 and size of the head, the flattened abdomen beneath, and by the 

 length of the odoriferous apertures ; but it diifers in the form of 

 the dilated lateral margins of the pronotum and in the transverse 

 impression on the same, which is irregular and interrupted on the 

 disk. 



22. Fieberisca omata, Montand. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belij. xl, p. 99 (1896). 



Head ochraceous, the margins, a central spot on each side of 

 which is a transverse line, and a basal series of spots castaueous ; 

 pronotum castaneous, two large ochraceous transverse spots on 



Fig. 9. — Fieberisca omata, 



anterior area continued to lateral angles, the whole inner areas of 

 which are black, a somewhat faint central median ochraceous line ; 

 seutellum castaneous ; four irregular basal spots and two large 

 transverse arcuate subapical spots, ochraceous ; lateral and apical 



