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margins of corium bright reddish-ochraceous ; lateral angles of 

 pronotuin broadly black, their apices subacute and very sHghtly 

 directed backward : a luteous levigate spot at each basal angle 

 of scutellum ; abdomen above bluish-black, connexivum reddish- 

 ochraceous spotted with blaclt : body beneath, antennae, legs, and 

 rostrum ochraceous ; apex of rostrum and disk of abdomen piceous ; 

 lateral areas of sternum and abdomen somewhiit thickly blackly 

 punctate ; lateral margins of pro- (excluding lateral angles), 

 meso-, and metasterna ochraceous. 



Length S^ ; breadth between pronotal angles 5 millim. 



Hah. N.W. Himalaya {Coll. Dlst.). Bombay (Leith). 



h. Lateral angles of the pronotum subjrromtHent, rounded. 



2S9. Carbula insocia, IValk. (J-^ysarcoris) Cat. Het. iii, p. 556 (18G8) : 

 Did. P. Z. S. 1900, p. 812. 

 Pentatoma bimaculata, Westic. in Hope Cat. i. p. 35 (1837 j. 



Brownish-ochraceous, thickly, finely, and darkly punctate ; a 

 small luteous levigate spot at each basal angle of "the scutellum ; 

 antennae, anterior lateral margins of the pronotum, basal lateral 

 margins of the corium, connexivum, body beneath, and legs, 

 ochraceous ; connexivum spotted with black : body beneath blackly 

 punctate, the punctures very thick on the under surface of the 

 pronotal lateral angles ; disk of abdomen with a more or less 

 continuous broad black fascia which narrows posteriorly ; lateral 

 margins of abdomen with a series of small black spots at apices of 

 incisures ; rostrum reaching posterior coxae, its apex black. 



Length 8 ; breadth between pronotal angles 5 millim. 



Hah. N.W. Himalaya {Coll. Dist.). Bombay {Leith). Bangalore 

 {Ind. Mus.). 



Genus CRATONOTUS.; 



Cratonotus, Bist. A. M. N. H. (5) iii, p. 50 (1879). 



Type, C. coloratus, Dist. 



Distribution. Oriental Region. 



Head broad, about as long as broad, latex-al margins n)oderately 

 sinuate and reflexed, the lateral lobes a little longer than the 

 central and broadly divided at their apices ; antennae five-jointed, 

 basal joint stout, not reachiug apex of head ; rostrum just passing 

 posterior coxae ; pronotum twice as broad as long, raised and 

 tumid at base, deflexed in front, lateral angles obtusely prominent, 

 lateral margins sinuated, with their anterior portion crenulate ; 

 scutellum about as broad at base as long, gradually narrowed for 

 two-thirds its length and then straightened to apex, which is 

 moderately broad and rounded ; membrane with longitudinal 

 nervures ; abdomen widened above, connexivum a little exposed on 

 each side, convex beneath ; mesosternum centrally carinate. 



