78 PENTATOMIDiE. 



large, reaching or nearly reaching the apex of the abdomen ; 

 prosternum furro^^■ed. 



The flattened, dilated, divergent, lateral lobes of the head will 

 serve to distinguish this genus from the others to which it is 

 allied. 



143. Storthecoris nigriceps, Horv. Wein. ent. Zeit. ii, p. 297 (1883). 

 Scotiuopliara tarsalis, T'o//. (var.), iJist. A. M. N. H. (5) iii, p. 40 

 (1879) ; Ath. J. A. S. B. Ivi, p. 195 (1887). 



Brownish-ochraceous, thickly and darkly punctate, head more or 

 less piceous ; body beneath piceous ; antennas, rostrum, legs, and 

 lateral areas of metasternum and abdomen brownish-ochraceous. 

 Body thickly and coarsely punctate ; scutellum more or less 



Fig. 37. — Storthecoris nigriceps. 



piceous at base, with three small ochraceous spots on basal margin, 

 and three longitudinal, discal, indistinct punctate fasciae ; lateral 

 margins of the pronotum irregularly and dentately serrate, between 

 the anterior and lateral spines containing two concavities. 



Length 7 ; breadth between pronotal angles 4 millim. 



Hab. Khasi m\h {CJiemieU) ; Sibsagar (Co?Z. Z>i*<.). 



This species is closely allied to the Podoj>s tarsaUs, Voll. (Taun. 

 Ind. Neerl. p. 42, t. 3, f. 8, 1863), as a variety of which in 1879 

 (svj)ra) I enumerated some Assamese specimens. Dr. Horvath 

 has since described this form and made a genus for its reception, 

 a course followed here. P. tarsalis, Voll., must be included in 

 Storthecoris. 



Genus AMAUROPEPLA. 



Amain-opepla, SfcV, Ofi. J'cf.-Al-. lor/t. 1867, p. 502 ; ul. En. Hem. 

 y, p. 29 (1876). 



Type, A. clenticulata, Hagl. 



Distrihtdion. N.E. India, Burma. 



Differs from the tw o preceding genera (Podoj^s and StortJiecoris) 

 in having the head gradually narrowed before the anteocular 

 sinus ; the anterior lateral mai^gins of the pronotum are rounded 

 and denticulate ; head somewhat flat, median lobe not elevated. 



