210 PE>'TATOMID.i:. 



337. Placosternmn taurus, Fahr. (Cimex) Spec Ins. ii, p. .•J44 (1781) ; 



id. (Edessa) Syst. Rhyny. p. 145 (1803) ; Ami/, S)- Serv. Hem. 

 p. 174(1843). 



Ochraceous, coarsely blackly punctate, the punctures frequently 

 confluent and forming irregular black spots or patches, of which 

 the most prominent are two transverse and linear on antei'ior 

 area, t\\ o irregularly rounded on disk of pronotum, and two on 

 anterior ai'ea of scutelliim ; antennae piceous, bases of the joints 

 ochraceous : body beneath and legs as above ; lateral areas of 

 sternum and abdomen and abdominal incisures more or less 

 confluently blackly punctate ; the apices of the pronotal angles 

 are truncate and bisi nuat e, thus being obtusely triangulate. 



Length 24 to 25; breadth between pronotal angles 10 to 17 

 luillim. 



Hah. Sikhim. N. Khasi Hills ( C'AouieZ?). Coc\\\u {CoU. Dist.). 

 Burma ; Bhamo {Fea). — Siam. 



338. Placosterimm alces, Stdl, En. Hem. v, p. 107 (1870). 



Closely allied to P. taurus, Fabr., and differing principally by 



he apices of the lateral pronotal angles, which are only miisinuate 



near anterior angle which is prominent ; behind the sinuation the 



apices are somewhat obliquely truncate : other characters generally 



as in P. taurus. 



Length 21 to 24; breadth between pronotal angles 16 millim. 



Hah. Bombay (Leith); 3ov Ghat {Divon). Cey\oxi (Green). 



"Near Bombay this species is common (m the Banyan tree (Fleus 

 henrjalensh).'' — 11. M. Tiivon. 



339. Placosterimm urus, Stdl, En. Hem. v, p. 107 (1870). 



P. v.rus is allied to the two preceding species and differs from 

 both in the pronotal lateral angles, which are distinctly broader at 

 apex than at base, where they ai-e posteriorly sinuate, their apices 

 are truncate and not so profoundly sinuate before the anterior 

 angular tooth ; the pronotum is more convex posteriorly, and the 

 scutellum more deflected from basal area ; the body is also smaller. 



Length 18 to 20 ; breadth between pronotal angles 14 to 15 

 millim. 



Hah. Ivhtisi Hills (Chennell) ; Naga Hills (DoJterly). Ceylon 

 {^Stockholm Mus.). 



340. Placosternnm cervus, Dist. Tr. E. S. 1887, p. 3oi\ 



A species allied to the preceding, but to be recognized by the 

 very widely and forwardly ascending pronotal angles ; these, as in 

 P. urus, are broadest at apices, and are deeply sinuate near the 

 anterior and posterior angles, which are prominent, their central 

 area being somewhat roundly truncate ; the pronotal lateral angles 

 are distinctly but shortly spinous. 



Length 19 ; breadth between pronotal angles 17 millim. 



Hah. Assam ; Sadiya (ChemieU). 



