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PENTATOMID^. 



Eah. North Khasi Hills {Chenvell); JS'aga Hills (DoJieriy). 

 Ceylon (vide Dohrn). Burma ; Bhamo, PaloD, Karemiee {Feci). 



Fig. 2i3. — Hotea curculionoides. 



Tenasserim ; Myitta (Doherty), Meetan (Fca). — Common in the 

 Malay Peninsula, recorded from China, Pow-choo-foo, and 

 generally distributed throughout the Malayan Archipelago. 



123. Hotea nigrorufa, Wall: Cat. Het. i, p. 57. 6 (1867). 



Closely allied to the preceding species (B. curculionoides), but 

 the ground-colour above is castaneous, not ochraceous, the lateral 

 margins of the pronotum very distinctly ochraceous, the antennae 

 are more robust (especially the fourth and fifth joints), the con- 

 nexivum and lateral margins of the abdomen beneath distinctly 

 ochraceous, and the body slightly more robust. 



Length 9 to 10 ; breadth betAveeu pronotal angles 6 millim. 



Hod). Coonoor, Nilgiris {Brit. Mus.). 



Genus DEROPLAX. 



Deroplax, Mayr, Tcrh. z.-h. Ges. Wien, xiv, p. 905 (1SG4). 



Argocoii?, Mayr J loc. cit. p. 905. 



Sergia, St&l, Htm. Afr. \, pp. S5 & 56 (186^). 



Type, D. ciixvmducta, Germ. An African species. 



Distribution. Central and South Africa and Madagascar ; one 

 species said to be Indian. 



Allied to Hotea, from which it can be at once distinguished by 

 the shorter and less acuminate head, the non-angulated lateral 

 angles of the pronotum, the more profoundly sukated sternum, &c. 



124. Deroplax diffiua, Walk. (Ilottar) Cat. Het. \, p. 57. 7 (1867); 

 IHst. A. M. K. H. (7) iv, p. 45 (1899). 



" Testaceous, elliptical, very minulely punctured. Head slightly 

 rostriform, with two black longitudinal lines, \Ahich in the fore 

 part are accompanied by t\AO slight furrows. Thorax somewhat 



