100 



PENTVTOMID.E. 



moderately exserted, the eyes prominent and not resting on the 

 anterior margin of the pronotum, lateral margins rounded, anterior 

 margin broad, subtruncate, central lobe as long as the lateral lobes, 

 the margins with about twelve long hairs ; antennse five-jointed, 

 first and second joints shortest, most slender, and subequal in 

 length ; third, fourth, and fifth joints incrassated, fifth longest ; 

 rostrum reaching the intermediate coxfe, second joint reaching the 

 anterior coxae ; pronotnm broader than long, anterior margin 

 concavely excavated for the insertion of the head, the anterior 

 angles broadly prominent, extending beyond the outer margins of 

 eyes, lateral margins slightly obliquely rounded and furnished 

 with some scattered long hairs ; scutellum longer than broad, 

 reaching to about two-thirds the length of the abdomen, lateral 

 margins slightly convex and narrowed to apex ; coriuni about 

 two thirds the length of the abdomen, outer margin moderately 

 dilated and convex, much broader than abdomen, posterior margin 

 slightly sinuate ; membrane short ; anterior tibiae moderately 

 dilated, with five or six spines on their outer margin and with t^^■o 

 apical spines ; intermediate and posterior tibiae longly spinous 

 on both sides. 



179. Fromundus opacus, Dist. Tr. E. S. 1901, p. 583. 



Dull dark castaneous, very closely and thickly punctate, the 



lateral margins of the 

 corium paler in hue ; an- 

 tennae and rostrum ochra- 

 ceous ; sternum and legs 

 castaneous; abdomen piceous, 

 shining ; membrane pale 

 hyaline. Pronotum with two 

 obscure dull discal patches ; 

 scutellum with a levigate spot 

 near each basal angle ; the 

 upper surface very thickly 

 and somewhat coarsely punc- 

 tate ; abdomen beneath finely 

 punctate. 



Fig. 50. — Fromundus 



opuru.< 



Length 4 ; max. breadth 3 millim. 

 Hah. Ceylon (Green). 



Genus BRACHYPELTA. 



Brachvpelta, A7Jii/. S,- Serv.Hem, p. 89 (1843) ; Slqn. Ann. Soc. Ent. 



Fr.\i5) iii. p. --lol (1883). 

 Cydnus, Boll. Lid Hem. i, p. 110 (1851). 



Type., B. aterrima, Forst. 



Distribution, Palaearctic, Ethiopian, Oriental, and Australian 

 Regions. 



Brachypelta is distinguished from all the preceding genera by 

 the form of the scutellum, which is short, triangular, with the 



