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PENTAXOMIDJE. 



h. Scutellum distinctly apically narrowed 



and distinctly shorter than corium . . Caebula, p. 170. 



b. Head long, tapei'ing, acuminate Hermolaus, p. 169. 



11. Body long, about twice as long as breadth of 

 pronotum. 

 C. Scutellum only about half the length of 



abdomen . . .' Oeatonotus, p. 1 73. 



Genus SEPONTIA. 



Sepontia, StB, Hem. Aft: i, p. 133 (1864); id. En. Hem. v, p. 80 



(1876). 

 Cfenina, Walk. Cat. Het. i, p. 82 (1867). 



Type, /S'. misella, Stal, an African species. 



Distribution. Ethiopian, Oriental, and Eastern Palffarctic 

 Regions. 



Body obovate, very convex above and beneath ; head depressed 

 anteriorly, almost perpendicularly, lobes of equal length or central 

 lobe slightly prominent ; rostrum reaching the third or fourth 

 abdominal segment ; antennae five-jointed, basal joint not reaching 

 the apex of head ; pronotum strongly deflected anteriorly ; scu- 

 tellum large, convex, extending to the apex of the abdomen, the 

 lateral areas of the corium only exposed. 



270. Sepontia stigmatica, Dist. A. M. N. H. (7) iv, p. 439 (1899). 



Ochraceous, somewhat thickly and darkly punctate ; head, a 



wide anterior collar to the pronotum (sometimes divided at the 



centre into two large 

 transverse subquadrate 

 spots), and a large tri- 

 angular spot at base of 

 scutellum bronzy-black ; 

 autennse ochraceous, api- 

 cal joints darkest (some- 

 what variable in this 

 respect) ; scutellum with 

 a small ochraceous levigate 

 spot on basal margin at 

 each side of the dark 

 triangular spot : body be- 

 neath blackish : marginal 

 spots at sternal segmental 



incisures, apex of abdomen, a narrow macular lateral abdominal 



margin, rostrum, and legs ochraceous. 



Var. Scutellar basal black spot continued by two narrow fasciae 



to apex. 



Le^igth 4 to Ah millim. 

 Hah. Ceylon (Lewis). 



Fig. 99. — Sepontia stigmatica. 



