CARPOCOEIS. 



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Fig. 93. — Palomencc spinosa. 



b. Pronotal angles prominently and S2nnously produced. 

 258. Palomena spinosa, Dist. Tr. E. S. 1880, p. 149, t. 5, f. 3. 



Above green, thickly, coarsely, and darkly punctate;' head with 



the lateral lobes longer than 

 tlie_ central and cleft at 

 their apices ; antennae with 

 the first, second, and third 

 joints gi^een, fourth (ex- 

 cepting base) and whole of 

 fifth brown, second longer 

 than third, fourth and 

 fifth snbequal ; pronotum 

 coarsely punctate, some- 

 what sparingly so on disk, 

 with the lateral angles 

 produced into broad ob- 

 tusely pointed spines, some- 

 what rounded and narrowly black at apices ; scutellum thickly 

 punctate, more sparingly so at apex ; membrane brassy, shining ; 

 connexivum narrowly luteous on outer margin and at segmental 

 incisures : body beneath paler, disk of abdomen, coxa), and bases 

 of femora somewhat luteous ; legs green, tarsi brown ; rostrum 

 luteous, its apex black. 



Length I'd to 14 ; breadth between pronotal angles 9 to 

 10 millim. 



Ilab. Sind (Coll. Dist.). 



259. Palomena imicolor, Westw. (Pentatoma) in Hope Cat i p 41 

 (1837) ; Dist. P. Z. S. 1900, p. 811, pi. lii, f. 5. ' 



x\llied to the preceding species (P. spinosa)., but with the pronotal 

 angles more acute, body a little narrower and more elongate. 

 Length 16; breadth between pronotal angles S millim. 

 Hah. Bengal (Oxford Museum). 



Genus CARPOCORIS. 



Carpocovis, Kolenati, MeJet. Ent. iv, p. 45 (1846) ; Muls. Sf Rey 

 Pun. Frajice, Pent. p. 237 (1866) : Stal, Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Fork. IS7=> 

 3, p. 37. ' * "' 



Mormidea (part.), Amy. ^ Serv. Hem. p. 134 (1843). 



Subg. Antheminia, Muls. ^ Rey, Pun. France, Pent. p. 254 (1866). 



Type, C. lynx^ Fabr., a Paloearctic species. 



Distribution. Pala3arctic Region and Northern India. 



Head moderately elongate, the lateral lobes a little longer than 

 the centi'al, apex somewhat truncate ; first joint of antennae not 

 reaching apex of head ; pronotum with the lateral maro-ins 

 oblique, lateral angles obtusely subprominent, the anterior lateral 

 margins acutely reflexed ; frena not extending beyond the middle 

 of the scutellum. 



