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PENTATOMID.1;, 



Fig. 71. — Laprius varicornig. 



at apex of antenniferous tubercles ; antennse five-jointed, first joint 

 not reaching apex of head ; rostrum extending laeyond the inter- 

 mediate coxae. Pronotum with the anterior lateral margins entire, 

 anterior angles subprominent and reaching beyond the latitude of 

 the eyes ; pro- and mesosterna furrowed. 



223. Laprius varicornis. 



Sciocoris varicornis, DaJl. List Hem. i, p. 136 (1851). 

 Laprius varicornis, St&l 6fi\ Vet.-AA-. Fiirh. p. 62-3 (1870). 



Dull ochraceous, thickly and darkly punctate ; eyes black ; a 



transverse row of four 

 obscure levigate spots on 

 anterior disk of pronotum ; 

 a levigate spot at basal 

 angles, and a very obscure 

 paler central fascia to scutel- 

 lum ; head beneath and 

 sternum as above, hut the 

 punctures less dense : abdo- 

 men more or less castaneous, 

 its lateral margins paler with 

 the stigmata piceous, pre- 

 ceded by a segmental series 

 of short whitish spots ; legs 

 and rostrum pale ochraceous, 



the femora speckled with brownish, apex of rostrum piceous ; 



antennae with the three basal joints reddish-ochraceous, apex of 



third joint infuscated, fourth and fifth joints fuscous with their 



bases ochraceous. 



In some specimens there are a few dark spots on basal area of 



scutellum, as in the specimen figured. 



Length 11 to 12: breadth between pronotal angles millim. 

 Hah. Sind {Coll. Hist.). Kbasi Hills (ChenneU). Cochin and 



Calcutta (Coll. Bist.). Bombay (Leith). 



224. Laprius antennatus. Hist. Tr. H. S. 1901, p. 108. 



Allied to the preceding species (L. varicornis), but differing by 

 the colour of the antennae, which in L. antennatus are fuscous, 

 the basal joint somewhat testaceous, bases of third and fourth 

 joints luteous ; the body is much broader posteriorly and more 

 rugulose on the pronotum and scutellum, the punctures much 

 coarser ; the pale ante-stigmatal spots larger, more elongate and 

 somewhat continuous. 



Length 12 ; breadth between pronotal angles 6 millim. 



Hah. Burma : Karen, Ashwe Keba {Fea) *. 



* Mr. Atkinson (J. A. S. B. 1888, p. 14) has included L. gadrkus, Thunb., 

 in his enumeration of Indian Ehyncliota as being "Reported from India." In 

 this course he has probably been misled bj- Walker. L. gadrimis appeal s to 

 represent the genus in China and Japan. 



