EUSARCOCOEIS. 165 



271. Sepontia variolosa, Wall: (Cteniua) Cat. Het. \, p. 82 (1867). 



(3cbraceous, thickly brownly punctate ; head, anterior area of 

 prouotum, basal margin of scutellum, and body beneath dark 

 brassy -green ; a small spot in front of each eye, and the lateral 

 and anterior margins of the pronotum levigate ochraceous ; two 

 central spots on anterior area of prouotum, three at basal margin 

 of scutellum, legs, antenna3, and a series of small marginal spots 

 to abdomen, luteous ; bases of femora brassy-green ; a subtriaagular 

 discal castaneous spot to scutellum. 



Leugth 3 millim. 



Hah. Burma {Mrs. Waring., Brit. Mus.). 



Genus EUSARCOCORIS. 



^'Eysarcoris, Halm, Wanz. ii, p. 06 (1834). 

 ^Eysarcocoris, Stal, Hem. Afr. i, p. 185 (1864). 



Eusarcoris, Puton, Cat. 1866, p. 11. 



Analocus, Stdl, Of v. Vet.-Ak. Fork. 1872, No. 3, p. 36. 



Stollia, JEllenried. Nat. Tijdschr. Nederl, Ind. xxiv, p. 149 (1862) $ 

 Stdl, Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Fork. 1867, p. .510. 



Type, E. aeneus, Scop., a Palsearctic species. 



Distribution. Palc"eai"ctic, Ethiopian, Oriental, and Australian 

 Regions. 



Body obovate, moderately broad and somewhat strongly convex 

 beneath ; head deflected, its apex rounded, the central lobe either 

 as long as lateral lobes or slightly prominent ; antennae with the 

 basal joint not reaching or nearly reaching the apex of head ; 

 pronotum anteriorly deflected; scutellum about as long as its breadth 

 at base, or a little longer, frena not extending beyond its middle. 



a. Pronotal anrjles more or less prominent. 



272. EusarcOCOris guttiger, Thunb. ( Cimex) Nov. Ins. Sj). ii, p. 32, 



t. 2, f. 47 (1783) ; Stdl (Stollia), Fn. Hem. v, p. 81 (1876) ; Ball. 

 List Hem. i, p. 228 (18-51). 

 Pentatoma nepalensis & puuctipes, Westw. in Hope Cat. \, p. 36 



(1837). 



Obscure luteous, thickly punctured ^^ith bronzy-black, the 

 punctures nearly confluent on the head, anterior area of the pro- 

 uotum, and lateral angles of the pronotum ; extreme lateral 

 margins of the pronotum, a somewhat large spot near each basal 

 angle of the scutellum, and the apical margin (narrowly) of the 

 same, levigate, luteous ; antennae ochraceous, apical joint (excluding 

 base) piceous : body beneath and legs ochraceous and blackly 

 punctate ; central area of sternum black, opaque ; abdomen 

 (excluding lateral and apical margins) shining black. Lateral angles 

 of the pronotum obtusely promiuent. 



Var. In some specimens the levigate angular spots at base o 

 scutellum are very small or practically obsolete. 



