ANTESTIA. 183 



Length 9 to 11 ; breadth between proiiotal angles 7| to 9 

 millim. 



Hah. Assam ; Margherita (DoJierti/). Burma ( Warim/, Brit. 

 Mus.). Teuasserira ; Malewoon (Fea). — Common m the Malay 

 Peninsula and i-ecorded from Siam and some of the islands of the 

 Malayan Archipelago. 



302. Anaca fasciata, Digf. (Hyllus) A. M. N. H. (vii) -"5, p. .394 

 (1900). 



OliA'aceous-green ; head, and a broad fascia between the humeral 

 angles of the pronotum and occupying them, dark ochraceous ; 

 a pale greenish or ochraceous spot at apex of scutellum ; body 

 beneath and legs greenish ; pronotal angles beneath with their 

 margins and apices black ; disk of abdomen ochraceous, the lateral 

 margins with small black spots at apices of incisures ; antennae 

 greenish ochraceous, second joint shorter than third, fourth and 

 fifth subequal in lengtli ; pronotal angles robust, slightly recui^ved, 

 their apices and lateral margins black. 



Length 9^ ; breadth between pronotal angles 8 millim. 



Hah. Assam; Sibsagar (Co?/. Z'j's?.). Ce-^lon {Green). 



Genus ANTESTIA. 



Auteatia, Stdl, Hem. Afr. i, p. 2U0 (18G4). 

 Otantestia, Bvcdd. >S'tett ent. Zeit. 1900, p. 324. 



Type, A. maculata, Dall., an African species. 



Distrihution. Ethiopian, Oriental, and Australasian Regions. 



Body obovate ; head moderately deflected, lobes of equal length r 

 rostrum passing the posterior coxa3 ; first joint of antennae almost 

 reaching apex of head : anterior and anterior lateral margins of 

 pronotum distinctly elevated and callous, lateral angles rounded 

 or subprominent ; scutellum broad, about as broad as long at base, 

 narrowed towards apex, subtriaugular ; mesosternum centrally 

 carinate ; abdomen unarmed at base. 



This genus contains species recorded as destructive to coffee- 

 trees both in the Ethiopian and Oriental Eegions. 



a. Lateral angles of tJie /yronotum not prominent, more 

 or less rounded. 



303. Antestia anchora, T/uinb. (Cimex) Kov. Ins. Sp. ii, p. 47, t. 2, 

 f. 60(1783); Ball. (Pentatoma) List Hem. i. 264(1851); StSl, 

 En. Hem. v, p. 90 (1876). 

 Pentatoma cruciata, EUenr. Not. Tljdschr. Nederl. Ind. xxiv. p. 154 



(1862). 



