15G 



PENTATOMID.i;. 



the corium, nearly uniformly punctured with brown or black ; 

 back of the abdomen black. These ai-e the characters relied upon 

 by Mulsant and Eey to separate the genus from some other closely 

 allied genera which do not occur in this fauna. 



I enumerate four species. Atkinson (J. A. S. B. 1888, p. 28) 

 includes P. ampUJicata, Dist., in the fauna, under the habitat 

 " Assam (?)," but I think erroneously. That species was founded 

 on specimens from North China. 



a. Pi'onotal angles rounded., not jirominentlu spinous. 



256. Palomena viridissima, Poda (Cimex), Ins. Mns. Graec. i^. 56. 10 



(1761) ; JDist. Sec. YarTcand Miss., Rhyncli. p. 4 (1879). 

 Cimex prasinus, Fieber, Eur. Hem. p. 339 (1861). 



Above green, margins of head, lateral margins of pronotum, 

 basal lateral margin of corium, apical margins of scutellum, and 

 lateral margins and incisures of the connexivum very narrowJif 

 reddish-ochraceous ; anteunoe ochraceous or rufous, last joint Avith 

 its apical area fuscous ; membrane fuliginous, reflecting the dark 

 colour of the upper surface of the abdomen : body beneath 

 ochraceous or greenish ; stigmata and apex of the rostrum black. 

 The body above is thickly and somewhat coarsely punctate, lateral 

 angles of the pronotum subprominent and rounded. 



Length 13 to 15 ; breadth between pronotal angles 8 millim. 



Hah. Punjab; Murree (Stoliczl-a). — A well-known Europeai> 

 species extending in range to N.W. Siberia. 



257. Palomena reuteri, Dist. Tr. E. S. 1879, p. 122 ; id. Sec. Yarkand 



Mis^., Phijnch. p. 4, f. 2 (1879). 



Grreen ; head, anterior margin of pronotum, basal half of scu- 

 tellum, and membrane bronzy ; head obscurely rugulose, very 

 thickly and strongly punctured with black, central lobe slightly 

 shorter than the lateral lobes ; rostrum luteous with the apex 

 black ; antennae luteous, apical joint somewhat fuscous, third joint 

 longer than second and rather shorter than fourth ; pronotum 

 obscurely rugulose, very thickly and strongly darkly punctate, 

 lateral angles somewhat prominent and rounded ; scutellum thickly 

 darkly punctate, slightly rugulose at base ; corium thickly and 

 darkly punctate ; abdomen above black, the connexivum luteous 

 punctured with black : body beneath pale luteous, more or less 

 suffused with greenish. 



Allied to the preceding species, but differing by its smaller size 

 and shorter antenna? ; it is also more straightened and narrowed 

 than that species, and the structure of the pronotum is different. 



Length 11 to 12 ; breadth between pronotal angles 6 to 7 millim. 



Hah. Punjab ; Murree (Stoliczha). Kashmir (vide Horvath). 



