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PENTATOMID^. 



strongly and broadly prodiiced ; scutellum long, slightly bigibbous 

 on basal area, margins oblique to about centre and then somewhat 

 straight to apex, which is broadly angulated ; lateral segmental 

 angles strongly angulated ; mesosternum obscurely carinate within 

 the furrow of a central globosity ; abdomen unarmed at base. 



327. Amasenus corticalis, Stdl, Tr. E. S. ser. 3, i, p. 602 (1863). 



Ochraceous and moderately thickly darkly punctate ; apices of 

 the antennal joints infuscated ; eyes black ; pronotum rugulose, 

 rugose at anterior and basal areas, anterior lateral margins robustly 

 spined, lateral angles broadly produced, their anterior mai'gins a 

 little convex, their apices somewhat obliquely truncate ; corium 



Fig. 124. — Amasenus corticalis. 

 shaded with confluent patches of dark punctures ; membrane 

 spotted with fuscous : body beneath as above ; sternum with a 

 broken sublateral black fascia ; stigmata piceous ; femora and tibiae 

 with obscure subapical dark biannulations. 



Length 24 ; breadth between pronotal angles 13^ millim. 



Hah. Assam (Atkinson). Malacca {Stockholm Mus.). 



Genus HOMALOGONIA. 



Homalogonia, Jakotvl. Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 1876, p. 89. 



Type, H. obtusa, Walk. 



Distribution. jS^orth-eastern Palaearctic Region and North- 

 western India. 



Broadly oval ; head broad, lateral margins nearly straight, lateral 

 lobes longer than the central but divided at their apices ; basal joint 

 of antennse not reaching apex of head ; rostrum reaching the 

 posterior coxae ; pronotum broad, its lateral angles moderately 

 produced, obtusely rounded, lateral margins crenulate at their 

 apices ; scutellum broad at base but narrowing to apex : meso- 

 sternum carinate ; abdomen unarmed. 



328. Homalogonia obtusa, Walk. (Pentatoma) Cat. Het. iii, p. .^)60 

 (1868) ; Dist. (Compastes) A. M. N. H. (5) viii, p. 28 (1881). 

 Homalogonia maculata, Jukoicl. Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 1876, p. 90 ; 

 How. Rev. iVEntom. xvii, p. 278 (1898). 

 Compastes miuor, Atk. J. A. S. B. Ivii, p. 344 (1889). 



