HALTS. 



119 



scutellum with three small basal spots and the apex ochraceous ; con- 

 nexivum spotted with ochraceous; membrane pieeous : body beneath 

 and legs generally as in E.fnllo. Kostrum reaching the fourth 

 abdominal segment. 



Length 20 to 25 ; breadth between prouotal angles 13 millim. 



Hah. Ceylon {Green). 



Genus HALYS. 

 Halys, Fabr. (part) Sijst. Rhymj. p. 180 (1803). 



Type, H. dentatus, Fabr. 



Distribution. Xorth and AVest Africa, India, China, and 

 Japan. 



Diftering from ErtJiesina by the non-dilated tibite ; head long, 

 tapering in front, the central lobe as long as the lateral lobes or 

 longer ; first joint of the rostrum not extending beyond the bueculse ; 

 veins of the membrane irregularly ramulose ; abdomen profoundly 

 sulcated. 



208. Halys dentatus, Fabr. (Cimex) Si/st. Ent. p. 70l^ 0775) ; id. Si/st. 



Rhymj. p. 180 (180o). 

 Oiraex sulcatus, Tlnmb. Nov. Ins. Spec, ii, p. 43 (1783). 

 Halys sevrigera & serricoUis, Westiv. in Hope Cat. Hem. i, p. 23 



(1837). 



Dull ochraceous, coarsely and darkly punctate : head with the 

 margins of the central lobe, pronotum with obscure oblique fasciae, 



scutellum with short 

 basal and obscure central 

 discal fasciae and two mar- 

 ginal spots before apex, 

 and corium with some 

 obscure discal patches, 

 black ; apex of scutellum 

 pale, its apical margins 

 pieeous ; connexivum 

 alternately ochraceous 

 and pieeous ; membrane 

 greyish-brown, the veins 

 darker : body beneath 

 and legs ochraceous ; head 

 beneath and sternum 

 coarsely and darkly 

 punctate ; abdomen finely and darkly punctate, its lateral margins 

 spotted with pieeous ; legs finely spotted with pieeous, more 

 thickly at apices of femora and tibife ; antennie pieeous, apices of 

 second and third joints and base of fifth joint luteous. Antenii;e 

 with the second and fourth and the third and fifth joints subequal 

 in length ; rostrum extending to or across the fifth abdominal 

 segment. 



Fig. G3.— Ha/ys dented its. 



