ANTESTIA. 185 



with two black anuulations ; autennse black, with tlie tu'o basal 

 joints orange-yellow. 



Length 10 to 12 millim. 



Hah. Sikhim. Bia-ma ; Arakau (AtJchison Coll.) ; Karennee 

 (Feci). Tenasserim ; Thagata {Feci). 



305.-Atttestia modificata, Dist. Tr. E. S. 1887, p. 350, pi. 12, f. 4. 



Ochraceous, spotted with bluish-black ; head luteous, margins 

 of central lobe, margins of lateral lobes from front of eyes, and two 

 spots at base bluish-black ; antennse black ; pronotum -with eight 

 bluish-black spots, the six largest arranged in double series on 

 disk and a small rounded spot at each lateral angle ; scutellum 

 with six bluish-black spots, the four largest in double series on 

 disk and a small spot in each basal angle ; corium with four bluish- 

 black spots — one basal, one apical, two discal ; membrane pale 

 hyaline, with a large bluish- black spot at base: body beneath pale 

 luteous, sternum spotted with bluish-black, and abdomen with 

 sutural fascism and lateral spots of the same colour ; legs luteous, 

 femora with a blackish spot near apices, t i li 



Length 7 millim. ¥-~ ck^.'- ^ • .^U^-W^ \Ua^ >, L^tS' 



Hab. Sikhim. L^v^-^y^ - ' 



^306. Antestia cruciata, Fahr. (Cimex) Si/st. Ent. p. 714(1775) ; Amy. 



8f Serv. (Peutatoma) Hem. p. 132 (1843) ; St&l, Ofo. Vet.-Ak. 



Fork. 1870, p. 630. 

 StracJiia geometrica, Motsch. Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc xxxvi, 2, p. 75 



(1863) ; Nietn. Enemies of Coffee Tree, p. 8 (1864). 

 Strachia velata & subacta," Wcdk. Cat. Het. ii, p. 329 (1867). 

 Pentatoma pantherina, Westiv. m Hope Cat. i. p. 34 (1837). 



Body above varying in colour from pale greenish to orange- 

 yellow ; head with two central lines and a spot before each eye 

 black; pronotum with ten black spots — four (smallest) on anterior 

 margin, and six across disk ; scutellum with four black spots (two 

 on basal margin, the other two elongate and angulate on disk), 

 apex usually paler and levigate ; corium with three discal black 

 spots and a costal black streak ; membrane dark fuligiuous, its 

 extreme apical margin greyish : body beneath and legs pale greenish 

 or luteous ; sternum and abdomen with two sublateral series of 

 black spots, abdomen with additional central, submargiual, and 

 marginal series ; antennse greenish or ochraceous. 



Length 7 to 9 millim. 



Hah. Sikhim ; Calcutta ; Bombay (Leith) ; Kilgiri Hills 

 (Hampson). Ceylon (Green). Tenasserim {Brit. Jlns.). — Also 

 received from many islands of the Malayan Archipelago. 



A well-known coffee pest. " Feeds on the berries of the cofFee- 

 tree " (E. E. Green). " Attacks the young berries of Coff'ea arahica 

 in Ceylon " (Nietner). 



