200 



PENTATOMIU.r. 



apex; (intermediate and posterior legs mutilated in unique 

 specimen described). 



Fig. 122. — Exithemus assameiibis. 



Length 15 : breadth between pronotal angles 9 millim. 

 Hah. Assam {Coll. Disf.). 



Genus COMPASTES. 

 Compastes, StSl, Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Fork. 1867, p. 519. 



Type, G. hhutanicus, Dall. 



Distribution. Eastern Himalayas, Assam Hills, jNorthern Burma, 

 and Eastern Palsearctic Region. 



Head flat, rounded anteriorly, lateral lobes longer than the 

 central, divided at their apices, their lateral margins somewhat 

 laminately reflexed ; rostrum just passing the i:)Osterior coxse ; 

 first joint of antennae not reaching apex of head ; pronotum with 

 the lateral angles produced in broad truncate processes, their 

 apices directed forward and a little upward, their margins dentate, 

 anterior lateral margins crenulate ; membrane M'ith the veins 

 sparingly furcate ; abdomen beneath somewhat gibbous on basal 

 area, unarmed at base ; mesosternum centrally carinate. 



This genus is abnormal in having the tarsi of two joints only. 



324. Compastes bliutanicus, 

 Dall. (Cimex:^) Tr. E. 

 S. V, p. 190, pi. 19, f. 4 

 (1849J. 



Dark browuish-ochraceous, 

 thickly and rather darkly punc- 

 tate ; pronotum and corium 

 somewhat rugulose and subno- 

 dulose; scutellum transversely 

 rugulose ; pronotal angles 

 armed at their apices with 

 fine spines, of which the 

 posterior is most acute, the 

 anterior angles each termi- 

 nating in a distinct spine behind the eye : body beneath ochraceous, 



Fig. 123. — Corn-pastes hhutanicus. 



