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PENTATOMIDiE. 



Genus GEOTOMUS. 



Geotomus, Muls. 8)- Rey, Pun. France, Pent. p. 34 (1860) ; Sign. Ann. 

 Soc. Enf. Fr. (6) iii, "p. 33 (1883) ; Atk. J. A. S. B. Ivi, p. 55 (1887). 



Type, G. imnctulatus, Costa. A Palsearctic species. 



Distribution. Universal. 



According to Signoret, Geotomus diifers from Ci/dnus by the 

 absence of small spines to the head. It is to be separated from 

 Garavsotes by the shorter rostrum, which does not extend beyond 

 the intermediate coxje ; the absence of the tumidity on the Lateral 

 angles of the disk of the pronotum which conceal the real angles 

 as in Macrosci/tus, and the posterior femora being spinose at the 

 apex, also give sulHcient characters for distinguishing it. The 

 odoriferous apertures are also structurally diverse. 



176. Geotomus pygmseus, JJuIl. (.Ethus) List Hem. i, p. 120 (1851) - 



Sii/n. Ann. Soc. Enf. Fr. ((?) iii, p. 5J, t. 3, f. 160 (1883). 

 Cvdnusrarociliatus, JE'//<°«r. Nat. Pijdschr. Nederl. Ind x.xiv, p. 139, 



f. 7 (1862). 

 Cvdinis paUidicornis, Voll. Faun. Ind. Neerl., Pent. p. 17 (1868). 

 ^thiis palliditarsus, Scutt, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1880, p. .309. 

 Geotomus snbtristis & picuudus, Bucli. White, A. M. N. II. (4) xx, 



pp. 110,111 (1877). ' 

 ^thus iianulus i^r platvsomoides, Walk. Cat. Het. i, pp. 162, 163, 



un. 83 c<t 92 (18(J7). - 

 ^thus omierou, Walk. op. cit. iii, p. 5-34 (1868), 



"Elongate-ovate, black, shining. Head with the lateral lobes 



sparingly punctured. Ocelli 

 red. Thorax smooth, some- 

 what quadrate, transverse, 

 with a short line of fine 

 punctures close to the middle 

 of the anterior margin, a line 

 of similar punctures across 

 the disk behind the middle, 

 and a few scattered punctures 

 on the sides. IScutellum loug, 

 rather thickly and finely 

 punctured, with the base 

 impunctate. Coriaceous por- 

 tion of the elytra pitchy, very 

 thickly and finely punctured, 



the punctures larger along the nervures ; membrane whitish. 



Body_ beneath black; abdomen thickly and finely punctured on 



the sides ; the disk smooth. Legs pitchy ; tarsi pale orange. 



Antenna) pale brown, with the tips of the fourth and fifth joints 



paler or testaceous." (Dallas.) 

 Length 8^ to 4| millim. 

 Hah. Bombay (Leiih). Ceylon (Leiris^. Burma; Bhamo, 



Toungoo, Eangoon, Mandalay. Karennee, Katha, Teinzo (Fea).— 



Generally distributed throughout the Malayan Archipelago, 



Fig. 49. — Geotomus fygmcEus. 



