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PENTATOMID.?;. 



Genus SOLENOSTETHIUM. 



Solenosthedium, Spin. Ess. p. 360 (1837). 

 Coeloglossa, Germ. Zeitschr. i, p. 130 (1839). 

 Solenostetliimii, Amy. ^- Serv. Hem. p. 26 (1843). 



Type, /S. liligerum, Thunb. An African species. 



Distribution. Throughout Africa ; India ; Annam ; China. 



Body obovate, convex ; antennae five-jointed, third joint about 

 twice as long as the second ; pronotum sexangular, the posterior 

 and lateral angles rounded ; scutellum almost entirely covering the 

 abdomen ; sternum and abdomen centrally sulcated, the sternal 

 sulcation with its margins strongly carinate. 



78. SolenostetMum rubropunctatum, Guer. (Scutellera) Voy. Cog., 

 Zool. ii, 2, p. 157 (1830); DalL List Hem. i, p. 7. 4 (1851); Dist. 

 A. M. N. H. (5) iii, p. 44 (1879) ; Atk. J. A. S. B. Ivi, p. 147 

 (1887). 



Body above purplish brown or dark castaneous ; pronotum with 



seven reddish - ochraceous 

 spots, three near each 

 lateral margin and one on 

 anterior disk ; scutellum 

 with ten reddish-ochraceous 

 spots, six on basal margin 

 and four a little before 

 centre ; antennae black, with 

 the first (or sometimes the 

 first and second joint) red- 

 dish-ochraceous : body be- 

 neath and legs ochraceous ; 

 tibiae and tarsi sometimes 

 black; abdomen with the stig- 



Fig. 16. — Solenostcthiurn ruhrojmnctaium. 



matal spots, and sometimes a series of spots on the margins of 

 the abdominal svdcation, black. 



According to Atkinson the 6 has 10, the $ 8 spots on the 

 scutellum. 



Length 14 to 18 millim. 



Hah. Eastern Garo Hills (Chennell). Tenasserim : Meetan 

 ['Eea). — Also found in the Malay Peninsula, Siam, and Cambodia. 



Division SPH^ROGOBARIA. 



Sphserocoraria, &tdl, En. Hem. iii, p. 3 (1873). 



Meso- and metasterna sometimes furrowed. Body above very 

 convex ; head very much depressed, almost perpendicular ; basal 

 mart^in of pronotum obtusely rounded towards the basal angles of 

 the scutellum ; rostrum with the second joint much shorter than 

 the two apical joints together. 



This is a small division, principally represented in the Ethiopian 

 Region. One genus is eastern in its distribution. 



