38 pbntatomidjB. 



lateral margins of sternum, legs, rostrum, and obscure mai'ginal 

 abdominal spots dull ochraceous. Central impression and foveae 

 to scutellum profound ; tbird, fourtb, and fifth joints of antennae 

 subequal in lengtb, or third slightly longest. 



Leugth 5 ; max. breadth 4 millim. 



Hah. Nilgiri Hills {Hampson). 



76. Bozius respersus, Dist. A. M. N. H. (7) viii, p. 239 (1901). 



Above ochraceous, punctured and mottled with piceous; head with 

 the anterior margins, base and margins of central lobe, and basal 

 area piceous ; pronotum with two piceous transverse subfoveate 

 spots, each containing posteriorly a small ochraceous spot, imme- 

 diately in front of the transverse impression, disk considerably 

 mottled with piceous, anterior and anterior lateral margins ochra- 

 ceous, levigate : scutellum with the basal impressed space with a 

 black central fascia and black at the foveate extremities, on the 

 basal half the punctures form somewhat oblique longitudinal fasciae, 

 on the apical third there are some transverse series of iri'egularly 

 shaped black spots. Body beneath piceous, the sternum opaque, 

 the abdomen shining ; head beneath, rostrum, lateral margins of 

 sternum, legs, antennae, lateral margins and an inner row of 

 linear marginal spots to abdomen ochraceous ; fourth and fifth 

 joints of antennae piceous. 



Length 6; max. breadth 5 millim. 



Hah. Nilgiri Hills {Hampson) ; Ootacamund {Ath. Coll. Brit. 

 Mus.). 



Subfamily II. SCUTELLERINiE. 



Scutellerida, St&l, Hem. Afr. \, p. 33 (1864). 



Scutellerinae, Dist. Biol. Centr.-Am., Rhynch. vol. i, p. lii. 1 (1880). 



The Scutellerinae as thus understood include the Scutellerides, 

 Pachycorides, Tetyrides, and Eurygastrides (pt.) of Amyot and 

 Serville ; the Pachycoridae and Eurygastridae of Dallas. We 

 recognize the group as thus diagnosed by 8t§,l : — 



Primary and subtended veins of wings remote, including a broad 

 central area ; hamus present ; scutellum very large, without frena. 



The Scutellerinae are distributed throughout all the zoo-geo- 

 graphical regions ; in beauty, size, and number they reach their 

 highest development in the Oriental and Ethiopian Kegions. The 

 subfamily may be considered as focussed in the Malayan area, 

 and is very strongly represented in the Indian fauna. 



As insect-pests the Scutellerinae probably play no inconsiderable 

 role, but at present we only possess a scanty record. Poecilocoris- 

 hardwickii is said to be a pest to the tea-shrubs in Bhutan, while 

 from Cape Town I have received a report that Cri/ptacnis plnguis 

 has been found in banana bundles from Natal. Eurygaster maurus, 



