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PENTATOMID^. 



Division EURYG AST R ARIA. 



Eurygastraria, Stdl, En. Hem, iii, p. -4 (1873). 



Differing from the previous division (Odoiitotarsarla) hy haviug 

 the orifices distinct and the second joint of tlie antennae soiuew^hat 

 curved. 



A. Scutelhiiu much narrower than abdomen . . Euryg-aster, p. 68. 



B. ScuteUum almost or practically covering the 



abdomen Melanodema, p. 69. 



Genus EURYGASTER. 



Eurygaster, subg. Eurygaster, Luj). Ess. p. 69 (1832). 

 Bellocoris, pt., Hdlin, IVanz. Ins. ii, p. 42 (1834). 

 Eurygaster, S2nn. Ess. p. 365 (1837). 

 Tetyra, Germ. Zeitsckr. i, p. 72 (1839). 



Eurygaster, subg. Platvpleurus, Muls. 4" Hct/, Pun. France, p. 

 (1865). 



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Type, E. hottentotus, Fabr. A Palaearctic species. 



Distribution. Neotropical and Palsearctic Regions, just entering 

 the North-west Oriental Region. 



Body oval or ovate, moderately convex. Head flat, deflected, 

 slightly concave ; antennae short and slender. Pronotum sex- 

 angular ; scutellum much narrower than the abdomen, the lateral 

 margins of the corium, especially at base, being exposed. Ab- 

 domen with the counexivum fl.attened, extending beyond the 

 latitude of the pronotum ; tibiae sulcated above. 



126. Eurygaster maura, Linn. (Cimex) Fawi. Suec. p. 246. 913 



(1761) ; St&l (Platvpleurus), En. Hem. iii, p. 30. 4 (1873) ; Leth. 



\ Sev. Cat. Oen. Hhn. i, p. 45 (1893) et synon. ; Atk. J. A. S. B. 



Ivi, p. 187. 105 (1887). 

 Thyreocoris austriacus, Schrankj Faun. Boica, ii, p. 68. 



(1801). 



Tetyra picta, Fabr. Syst. Rhym/.-^. 136. 38 (1803). 

 Eurygaster cognatus & orientalis, Westtv. in Hope Cat. i, 



(1837). 



Ochraceous, more or less 

 suffused with dark or purple- 

 brown and thickly and darkly 

 punctate ; counexivum with 

 large quadrate dark spots 

 formed by dark punctures. 



This species varies in colour 

 from almost uniform ochra- 

 ceous to luteous with fasciae 

 and sufl'usions of various 

 shades of brown, in some 

 varieties nearly almost suf- 

 Scopoli (' Ent Carn.' p. 120) states that 



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Fig. 31. — Eurygaster maura. 

 fused with dark brown 



