50 



PENTATOMIl)^. 



rostrum red : legs black, basal halves of femora red ; antennae 

 black, basal joint reddish, a pale aunulatiou near base of fourth 

 joint. 



Var. latercdis, Walk, (siqrra). Almost uniformly brownish above, 

 the angulated reddish margin to the scntellum only represented by 

 two or three luteous spots on each side. 



Length 15 to 18 ; width between pronotal angles 7 to 8 millim. 



Hah. Assam : Margherita {Dohertij). Sylhet. Trivaudrum {Coll. 

 Dist.). — Also received from the Malay Peninsula and from Java, 

 Borneo, and the Philippines. 



95. Tetrarthria varia, Walk. Cut. i, p. 18 (18G7). 

 Tethrai'thria lineata, Walk. loc. cit. 



Tethravtlu-ia varia, var. lineata, Dist. A. M. N. H. (7) 

 (1899). 



IV, p. 



3o 



Doubtfully distinct from varieties of the preceding species, but 



the pronotum and scutellum 

 are concolorous, and the scu- 

 tellum is without any mar- 

 ginal luteous spots. 



Length 16 ; width bet\A-een 

 pronotal angles 8 millim. 



Hah. Burma (Brit. 3Ius.). 

 — Also received from Hong 

 Kong and Malay Peninsula. 



The description is taken 

 from the var. (3 described by 

 Walker as belonging to his 

 lineata, which has alone been 

 received from our faunistic 

 region. 



Fig. 20. 

 Tetrarthria varia, var. lineata. 



Genus SCUTELLERA. 



Scutellera, Lam. Si/st. p. 29:3 (1801) ; Dall List Hem. i, p. 4 (1851) ; 



Stal, Hem. Afr. i, p. 33 (1864). 

 Callipliara, Amy. Sf Serv. Hem. p. 30 (1843). 



Type, S. nohilis, Pabr. 



Distrihution. India, Burma, Malay Peninsula, Siam, China, Java. 



Body oblong, obscurely pilose ; head long, triangular, convexly 

 and obliquely directed downwards ; rostrum extending to the apex 

 of the fjecond abdominal segment or beyond it ; mesosternum 

 distinctly sulcated ; abdomen very strongly and broadly sulcated, 

 the sulcation narrowing towards apex. 



96. Scutellera fasciata, Panz. (Cimex) in Voet, Col. iv, p. 108. 2, 

 t. 46, f. 2 (1798) ; Dall. List Hem. \, p. 19. 2 (1851). 

 Tectocoris nepalensis, Westw. in Hope Cat.'i, p. 14 (1837); Germ. 

 (Calliphara) Zeitschr. \, p. 125. 4 (1839). 



