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PENTATOMIDyD. 



Genus HALYOMORPHA. 



Halyomorplia, Mayr,-Verh. z.-b. Ges. Wien, xiv, p. 911 (1864). 



Type, H. picus, Eabr. 



Distribution. Ethiopian and Oriental Eegions. 



Head broad at apex, lateral margins narrowl}^ reflexed and 

 a little sinuate, lobes of about equal length ; antennse five-jointed, 

 first joint not reaching apex of head ; eyes large, sessile ; rostrum 

 reaching the second or third abdominal segment ; pronotum with 

 a short tooth at each anterior angle, lateral margins oblique and 

 slightly reflexed, lateral angles subprominent ; scutellum with the 

 apical third much narrowed, and with a small rounded impression 

 at each basal angle ; tibiae externally broadly sulcate. 



249. Halyomorpha pious, Fubv. (Cimex) Ent. Syst. \\, p. 115 (1794) ; 



id. (Edessa) Syst. Rhyng. p. 153 (1803). 

 Cimex marmorens, Fabr. Ent. Syst. Sup2yl. p. 534 (1798) ; id. 



(Edessa) Syst. Rhymj. p. 153 (1803). 

 Cimex cinnamomeus, Wolf, Ic. iii, p. 99, f. 93 (1802). 

 Halys timorensis, Westw. in Mope Cat. i, p. 22 (1837) ; Ball. 



(Pentatoma) List Hem. i, p. 242 (1851) ; Mayv (Halyomorpha), 



Reise Nov., Hem. p. 50 (1866). 

 Pentatoma halys, Stdl, 6fv. Vet.-AJc. Fiirh. 1855, p. 182. 

 Pentatoma trivialis, Dohm, Stett. ent. Zeit. xxi, p. 400 (1860). 

 Poecilometis mistus, XJhler, Proc. Ac. Phil. 1860, p. 223. 

 Dalpada brevis, remota, & j)roxima, Walk. Cat. Met. i. pp. 226-7 



(1867). 



Very variable in colour and size. Above greyish-ochraceous, 



ochraceous, testaceous, or 

 castaneous, thickly and 

 darkly punctate ; head, 

 anterior and lateral areas 

 of pronotum more or less 

 marked with dark fuscous 

 or brownish : a small dai'k 

 spot outwardly margined 

 with levigate ochraceous 

 at basal angles of scu- 

 tellum : body beneath and 

 legs pale luteous, the 

 lateral areas punctate, 

 lateral areas of head and 

 sternum more or less pro- 

 minently blackly punctate ; rostrum reaching second abdominal 

 segment ; antennse with the fourth and fifth joints a little the 

 longest and sube([ual, third longer than second. 

 Var. Scutellum with the apex pale, impunctate. 

 Length 12 to 17; breadth between pronotal angles 7 to 

 10 millim. 



Hub. North Khjisi Hills (OJiennell) ; ~Bomha.y (Lei th) ; Calcutta 

 (Ind. Mus.); Bangalore (Cameron)- Nilgiris (Hamiisoyi) ; Tri- 



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Fig. 91. — Halyomorpha incus. 



