20-i PENTATOMID^. 



Genus TEOPICORIS. 



Tropicoris, Halm, Wanz. Ins. ii, p. 52 (1834) : SuV, Ofr. Vet.-Ak. 

 Fork. 1867, p. 518. 



Type, T. rufij:>es, Linn., a Palsearctic species. 



Distribution. Palsearctic Eegion and India. 



Head more or less uarro^^•ed to apex, sometimes gradually, in 

 other species apically narrowed, the lateral margins not sinuate ; 

 antenna? somewhat long, five-jointed, basal joint not reaching apex 

 of head ; pronotum with the lateral angles irregularly produced, 

 either acutely or truncately, the lateral margins finely serrate, 

 truncate behind the eyes, with the anterior angles acutely pro- 

 duced ; scutellum somewhat long, attenuated posteriorly ; meso- 

 sternum prominently carinate ; abdomen either tuberculate at 

 base or armed with a spine of variable length. 



329. Tropicoris punctipes, Stdl, En. Hem. v, p. 106 (1876). 



dompastes truncatus, Dist. Tr. E. S. 1887, p. 351, pi. 12. f. 10.* 



Brownisli-ochraceous, coarsely and darkly punctate ; connexivum 

 luteous, \^ ith blackish spots at bases and apices of sutures : mem- 

 brane brownish, the venation darker ; antennse with the first, 



Fig. 1 2(). — Tro2)icoris 2nincti2}es. 



second, and third joints brownish, minutely darker at apices, 

 second joint longer than third ; pronotum with the lateral margins 

 obtusely serrate, the lateral angles produced into broad and 

 apically truncated spines : body beneath and legs ochraceous, 

 brownly punctate ; rostrum reaching the second abdominal seg- 

 ment, its apex piceous ; ventral spine reaching the intermediate 

 coxae. 



Length 16 ; breadth between pronotal angles 10 millim. 



Hah. Sikhim. 



* As may be seen from the figure of Compasfcs truncatus, Tr. E. S. 1887, 

 pi. 12, f. 10, the tarsi ■were totally absent, and I thus mistook the generic 

 position of the species. 



