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PENTATOMIDjE. 



146. Melanophara spinifera, Westw. (Podops) m Hope Cat. Hem. i, 

 p. 16 (1837). 

 Podops funestus, Walk. Cat. Het. iii, p. 521 (1868). 



Allied to M, denfata, Hagl., but larger, the anterior area of the 

 prouotum much more strongly tuberculate, the lateral margins 

 more strongly spined, punctures on body above coarser 'and more 

 profound. 



Length 9 to 11 millim. 



Hab. Bengal (Hope Coll.) • Calcutta (Atl: Coll.). — Penang. 



Genus ASPIDESTROPHUS. 



Aspidestrophus, Stal, Ofo. Fet.-Ak. Fiirh. 1854, p. 232 ; id. Freg. Eug. 

 Resa, Ins. Hetn. p. 219 (1859) ; id. En. Hem. v, p. 29 (1876). 



Type, A. morio, Stal. 



Distrihution. N.E. India, Burma, Malay Peninsula ; Malayan 

 Archipelago. 



Ditters from Melanophara in having the head more convex and 

 its lateral margins obtuse, the lateral lobes tumescent ; scutellum 

 moderately gibbous at base. 



147. Aspidestrophus morio, Stal, Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Fork. 1854, p. 232. 1 ; 

 id. Freq. Eiu/. Resa, Ins. Hem. p! 219, pi. 3, f. 1 (1859) ; Voll. Faun. 

 Ind. Neerl. \ p. 43. 1 (1863). 



Dark fuscous ; a linear spot on pronotum, rostrum and tarsi 

 ochraceous. Pronotmn with the lateral margins almost oblique, 

 very strongly and coarsely dentate, the lateral angles distinctly 

 spinous, a distinct transverse impression behind the middle, in 

 front of which the disk is moderately, transversely, narrowly 

 gibbous. 



Length 9 ; breadth between pronotal angles 5| millim. 



Hah. Naga Hills (Chennell). Java {StockJi. 3Ius.). 



Fig. 40. — Afipidesfrophus lincola. 



] 48. Aspidestrophus lineola, Voll. Faun. Ind. Neerl. i, p. 44. 2, pi. 3, 



f. 10 (1863). 



Closely allied to the preceding species {A. morio, Stal), but 



