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PENTATOMID^. 



joint mutilated in specimens described) ; lateral margins of corium 

 blackly punctate : body beneath and legs pale ochraceous ; a few 

 scattered black dots on pro- and mesosterna, and the abdominal 

 stigmata margined with, black. Lateral lobes of head slightly longer 

 than central. 



Length 16 to 21 ; breadth between prouotal angles 10 to 

 15 millim. 



Hab. Xjiga Hills (DoJierti/). Burma ; Euby Mines {Dolierty). — 

 Also found in Java and Sumatra. 



332. Priassus exemptus, J]'alk. (Prionaca) Cat.Het. iii, p. 569 (1868)./,-/ , |T,'j? 

 Priassus carinatiis, Horv. Termesz. Fuzetek, xii, p. 32*(1889). 



Allied to P. spinir/er, Hagl., but differing by the much less 

 produced pronotal angles; the reddish coloration to head and 

 pronotum is much less intense; and the lobes of the head are 

 equal in length. 



Fig. 128. — Priassus exeonptus.''' 



Length 16 to 19 ; breadth bet\\een pronotal angles 9| to 

 11 millim. 



Hab. jSTaga Hills {Doherty). Tenasserim ; Mt. Mooleyit {tea). 



Genus LELIA. 



Rhaphigaster, suhg. Prionochilus, Dall. Tr. E. S. v, p. 191 (1849) ; 



Stdl, En. Hem. v, p. 107 (1876), nom.pra'occ. 

 Lelia, Walk. Cat. Het. ii, p. 406 (1867). 

 Renardia, Jakowl. Bull. Soc. Nat. Mvsc. 1876, 2, p. 99. 



Type, L. octoj)unctata, Dall. 



Distribution. Assam, Eastern Himalayas, and Eastern Palaearctic 

 Eegion. 



Head with the lateral lobes a little longer than the central lobes 

 and sometimes separate at their apices ; pronotum with the lateral 

 margins strongly serrate, the lateral angles strongly and somewhat 

 Innately produced ; meso- and metasterna centrally carinate ; 

 abdomen beneath with a distinct central longitudinal ridge, basal 

 spine long, just passing the intermediate coxae. 



