PLACOSTER^'UM. 



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336. Degonetiis serratus, Dlst. (Abeona?) Tr. JE. S. 1887, p. 350. ^ ■ ' > ^i 



Ocbraceous, thickl}^ and darkly punctate ; connexivum reddish- 



ochraceous, with black linear spots near bases and apices of seg- 

 mental incisures ; antenufe 

 with the first and second 

 joints dark ochraceous, third 

 and fourth luteous, wdth 

 their apical halves blackish ; 

 pronotum wdth the lateral 

 angles broadly produced and 

 obtusely bispined ; scutellum 

 with a small foveate black 

 spot in each basal angle ; 

 membrane pale fuliginous : 

 body beneath, rostrum, and 

 legs ochraceous ; head with 

 a black spot on each side 



near base of antenna ; sternum coarsely punctate on lateral 



areas ; abdomen obtusely centrally sulcated. 



Length 12 to 14 ; breadth between pronotal angles 7 to 9 



millim. 



Hab. Bombay (CoU. Dlst.). 



131. — Dcgonetus serratus. 



Genus PLACOSTERNUM. 



Placosteruum, Amy. Sj- Sew. Hem. p. 174 (1843). 



Type, P. taiirus, Fabr. 



Distribution. India, Malay Peninsula, and China. 



Body broad, robust; lateral margins of the head gradually 



rounded and entire, lateral 

 lobes a little longer than 

 the central, separate at their 

 apices ; antennae with the 

 basal joint not nearly reaching 

 apex of head ; rostrum about 

 reaching the intermediate 

 coxae ; pronotum broad, lateral 

 margins dentate, lateral angles 

 produced, their apices more or 

 less truncate ; meso sternum 

 Avith a central prominent 

 robust ridge terminating 

 pointedly between the anterior 

 cosje, this ridge is posteriorly 

 united to a central metasternal 

 Fig. 132.— Placosternum tauriis. elevation which is sinuate 



behind and receives the short 

 broad basal spine of the abdomen. 



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