UALPADA. 



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ochraceous ; lateral margins ot" head, sternum, and abdomen, apices 

 ot" femora, bases and apices of tibite, apical joints of tarsi, centre of 

 mesosternum, and >ubapical spot and anal appendage to abdomen 

 verr dark greenish or black : abdominal marginal fascia with large 



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Fig. 59. — Balpada oculata. 



outer and small inner ochraceous spots. Head, pronotum, and 

 scutellum coarsely punctate, the corium more sparsely and finely 

 punctate ; lateral pronotal angles in^vardly broadly distinctly 

 furrowed. Eostrum just passing the posterior coxa?. 



Length 15 to IS : breadth between pronotal angles S to 9 millim. 



Huh. Sikhiin. Khasi Hills {ChenneJl), Margherita {Ind. Mus.). 

 Calcutta. Burma: Bhamo, Ivarennee, Minhla, Palon. Teuasserim: 

 Malewoon, Myitta. — Also common in the Malay Peninsula. 



"Worn specimens of this species have the distinctive dark green 

 markings absent or very obsolete. 



One of these discoloured specimens fi'om Assam apparently 

 deceived Mr. Atkinson, who (J. A. S. B. 1SS8, p. 1) identified it as 

 D. triinaculata, Westw., and included that species in the Indian 

 fauna. I possess an Assam specimen sent to me by Mr. Atkinson 

 which has a strong superficial resemblance to Westwood's species, 

 but is structurally distinct, D. tnuiacnlata is apparently confined 

 to the Malay Archipelago. 



B. Anterior tibice not prominently dilated, 

 a. Pronotal angles more or less nodulose and inivardhj furrowed. 



193. Dalpada nigricollis, Westu-. (Halvs) in Hope Cat. Hem. i. p. 22 

 (lb.37) ; Dall. List Hem. i, p. 184 (1851). 

 Halys obscm-a, Westic. loc. cit. 



G-reyish luteous, very thickly punctured with brassy black : 

 pronotum sometimes with a slender disc-al median line, in front of 



