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PENTATOMIB.I. 



near the insertion of the posterior femora ; the odoriferous aper- 

 ture is also distiuct in construction. 



Length 7^ to 8 : max. breadth 3| to 4 miUim. 



Hah. "North India"' (Signoret). Burma: Eangoon, Palon, 

 Teinzo, Karennee (Fea). Tenasserim ; Thagata (Fea). 



Genus SCOPAIilPES. 



Scoparipes, Siffn. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fv. ix, ]>. clx.viii (1879) ; Aim. Soc. 

 Eut.Fr.l8Sl, p. 2()± 



Type, S, latipes, Westw. A Malayan species. 



Distribntion. Oriental Eegion. 



This genus was founded for the reception of a group of species 

 distinguished by the form of the posterior tibiae, which in the male 

 sex are long, flattened, narrower at the base than at the apex, and 

 have on the inner surface a line or margin furnished with short, 

 very close, stiff hairs ; in the female sex the same line possesses 

 but a few haii's only ; on the outer margin there are spines, as in 

 other alHed genera. Tlie head is more or less rounded and 

 margined with hairs and rather stout spinules ; antenna; tive- 

 jointed, the third joint shorter than the second ; odoriferous 

 aperture broad, transversely grooved, terminating in a broad lobe, 

 with the lower opening surrounded by a hood (capuchon). 



157. Scoparipes (?) longirostris, Sicpi. Ann. Soc Ent. Fr. (6) i. p. 205, 

 t. vii, f. 24 (1881) : Atk. J. A. S. B. Ivi, p. 45 (1887). 



This is a species I have not seen, and some doubt seems to exist 

 both as to its generic position and exact habitat. Signorel's figure 

 is here reproduced, with Atldjison's translation of his description, 

 which is qnite literal. 



Brown-black : some\\"hat parallel, 

 elongate ; rostrum and tarsi yellowish ; 

 first two joints of the antennas black, 

 the rest brownish. Head rounded in 

 front, striated, finely punctured, spi- 

 nulose, and ciliated on the margin ; 

 second joint of the antennae longer 

 than the third ; rostrum very long, 

 leaching the second ventral segment, 

 the joints almost equal, the second 

 joint much arched ; pronotum almost 

 square, anterior angles rounded, an- 

 terior border much emarginate and 

 strongly impressed, finely punctured, 

 also the lateral margins and on the 

 median transverse line, much ciliated 

 on the borders ; scutellum roiuided, 

 impressed at the tip and very concave, 

 disk punctured ; hemelytra shorter and narrower than the abdo- 

 men, finely punctured, with 7-8 piliferous points on the external 



Fig. 44. 



Scoiidripes (?) loiic/irostris. 



