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PENTATOMIDjE. 



elevated, the anterior margin concave, slightly truncate behind the 

 eyes, the lateral angles subprominent ; head forwardly narrowed, 

 the apex rounded, lateral margins slightly sinuate near middle, 

 central lobe slightly longer than the lateral lobes ; rostrum passing 

 the posterior coxa3 ; corium with the apical margin very slightly 

 sinuate near the apical angle, which is somewhat rounded at 

 extremity ; mesosternum distinctly carinate ; abdominal segmental 

 angles slightly acutely prominent ; anterior tibiae sometimes 

 moderately dilated. 



252. Tolumnia latipes, Ball. (Pentatoma) List Hem. i, p. 238 (1857) ; 



JJist. A. M. N. H. (7) iv, p. 436 (1899). 

 Dalpada obtusicollis, Ellenr. Nat. Tijdsc/ir. Nederl. Ind. xxiv, 



p. 143, f. 10 (1862). 

 Peutatoma trispila, Walk. Cat. Hit. ii, p. ;i02 (1867). 

 I'ar. Peiitatoma contiugeus, Walk. he. cit. p. 302. 



Pale chocolate-brown, thickly punctured and obscurely irrorated 



with ochraceous ; central 

 lobe to head, lateral and 

 anterior margins to pro- 

 notum, a large spot in each 

 basal angle of the scutel- 

 lum and the apex to same 

 luteous ; connexivum alter- 

 nately black and luteous : 

 body beneath and legs 

 luteous, very finely punc- 

 tate ; three SQiall spots on 

 each lateral area of the 

 sternum, apices of femora, 

 tibia?, tarsi, and apex of 

 rostrum, black ; antennse 

 ochraceous, first joint blackish, foui-th and fifth joints black with 

 their bases luteous. 



Var. contingens, AValk. Scutellum without the large pale basal 

 angular spots. 



Length 9 to 11 ; breadth between pronotal angles 5 to Tmillim. 



Hah. Sikhim; Mungphu (AtJcinson). North Khasi Hills 



{Chennell); Njiga Hills (Z)o7((t?v). Trivandrum. Burma; Bhamo, 



Karennee (Fea). Tenasserim ; Myitta {Doherty). — Also received 



from Siam, the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java, and Hong Kong. 



253. Tolumnia maxima, sp. n. 



Eesembling T. latipes, but much larger, much more coarsely 

 punctate, lateral pronotal angles more prominent ; antennte with 

 the first, second, and third joints ochraceous speckled with fuscous, 

 apex of third joint pale ochraceous ; pronotum more largely 

 irrorated with ochraceous, especially on the anterior and lateral 

 areas ; basal angular spots to scutellum comparatively smaller and 



Fig. ^'2.— Tolumnia latipc 



