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PEXTATOMIDtE. 



Stracliia pardalis & platyspila, Walk. Cat. Hef. W, pp. 330 & 337. 

 11. 64 & 78 (1867). 

 Antestia ellenriederi, Bredd. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1900, p. '622. 



Orange-yellow; head with the basal margin, a lineate spot 

 before each eye, and two discal lines black ; pronotum with the 

 anterior, anterior lateral, and central basal margins, and two lateral 

 discal suffusions luteous, a transverse black spot on each side of 



anterior margin and four 

 discal spots of the same 

 colour ; scutellum with a 

 streak near each basal 

 ^ angle and the apex luteous ; 

 y basal angles, two spots 

 on anterior margin, and 

 two augulated spots on 

 apical half black ; corium 

 with three discal black 

 spots ; counexivum luteous 

 with black spots ; mem- 

 brane fuliginous, with the 

 apical margin greyish : 

 body beneath luteous, with discal transverse, sublateral quadi'ate, 

 and marginal lineate black spots, sometimes the discal transverse 

 spots are broken internally ; head beneath and legs orange-yellow ; 

 apex of rostrum black ; antennae black, first and second joints 

 and base of third joint rufous. 



Length 10 to 12 ; breadth between pronotal angles 7 to 7| 

 millim. 



Hab. Sikhim ; North Khasi Hills (OhemieU) ; Xiiga Hills 

 (Doherfif). Burma; Bhamo, Karennee (i^ea). Tenasserim, Thagata 

 (Fea), Myitta (Doherfy). — Common in the Malay Peninsula and 

 found in Java and Sumatra. 



Fie. 110. — Antestia aiichora. 



304. Antestia pulchra, Dall. (Pentatoma) List Hem. i, p. 2o3 

 (1851). 

 Stracliia heterospila, iJ'alk. Cat, Het. ii, p. 331. 65 (1867). 



Head and corium orange-yellow, pronotum and scutellum 

 luteous ; head with a spot before each eye, a large basal spot and 

 a smaller subapical spot black; pronotum with two transverse 

 linear spots near anterior margin, a spot at each lateral angle, and 

 two large central spots extending over base of scutellum, black; 

 scutellum with two elongate discal black spots ; corium ^^■ith a 

 central waved and much angulated black fascia ; membrane black, 

 its apical margin pale greyish : body beneath luteous ; two spots 

 on each lateral area of pro- and mesosterna, three spots on lateral 

 area of metasternum, large transverse spots on each lateral area 

 of first to fifth abdominal segments, and a central spot on sixth 

 segment, black ; head beneath and legs orange-yellow ; femora 



