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PENTATOMID^. 



281. Hermolaus typicus, sp. n. 



Browuish-ocliraceous, thickly punctate, the anterior area of 



pronotum and the scutellum 

 paler in hue ; head some- 

 what fuscous ; antennae 

 luteous, apical joint a little 

 darker ; anterior area of pro- 

 notum with two transverse 

 brownish spots ; abdomen 

 above castaneous ; connexi- 

 \'um luteous, spotted with 

 castaneous ; scutellum with 

 a minute levigate spot near 

 each basal angle : body be- 

 neath and legs hiteous, body 

 punctured with castaneous, most thickly so on lateral areas ; abdo- 

 men with a broad maculate central pale castaneous fascia ; apex of 

 rostrum piceous. 



Length 5 ; breadth between pronotal angles 2i millim. 

 Hah. Nilgiri Hills ; Ootacamund {Atlcinson, Brit. Mus.). 



Fig. 101. — Hermolaus ti/picus. 



Genus CARBULA. 



Carbula, Stal, Hem. Afr. i, p. 140 (1864) j id. En. Hem. v, pp. 60 & 

 82 (1876). 



Type, C. decorata., JSign., an African species. 



Distribution. Ethiopian and Oriental Kegions. 



Body broadly oval or obovate, beneath convex. Head rounded 

 or somew hat truncated at apex, lobes about equal in length ; 

 rostrum with the first joint equal to or extending a little beyond 

 the bucculae, second joint about equal to or a little longer than 

 the last two joints taken together ; antennae with the first joint 

 not reaching the apex of the head. Pronotum with the anterior 

 lateral margins generally obtuse, never acute, terminated by a 

 levigate edge which is rarely crenulated ; scutellum broad, trian- 

 gular, a little longer than broad at base ; comiexivum moderately 

 exposed. 



a. Lateral anrjles of the pronotum promineat, sometimes 

 acutely produced. 



282. Carljula crassiventris. Ball. (Pentatoma) 7'r. K S. v, p. 189 



(1849). 



Brownish-ochraceous, thickly and coai'sely punctate ; antennae, 

 rostrum, body beneath, and legs ochraceous; body and legs blackly 



