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PENTATOMIDJ;. 



Type, JV. virklula. 



Distribution. Aliriost universally distributed. 



Body oval or obovate ; head somewhat laterally sinuate, lobes 

 of equal length ; autenuse five-jointed, basal joint not reaching 

 apex of head ; pronotum with the lateral margins not or very 

 rarely slightly reflexed, truncate behind the eyes ; mesosternum 

 moderately carinate ; abdomen tuberculately spinous at base. 





353. Nezara viridula, Linn. (Cimex) Syst. Nat. ed. 10, p. 444 (17o8) ; 



Stdl, Hem. Afr. i, p. 193 (1864). 

 Cimex smaragdnla, Fabr. Si/sf. Ent. p. 711 (1775). 

 Cimex torquatus, Fabr. Si/s't. Ent. p. 710 (1775). 

 Pentatoma flavicoUis & flaviconiis, Pnlis. de Beauv. Ins. Hem. p. 185, 



t. 11, f. 4(1805). 

 Pentatoma uuicolor, ohlonga, suhsericea, leii, tripunotigera, proxima, 



cliineusis, beiylina, Westio. in Hope Cat. i, pp. 37, 38 (1837). 

 Pentatoma plicaticolUs, Lucas., Expl. Alger., his. p. 87 ; Hem. t. 3, 



f. 9 (1849). 

 Pentatoma vicaria, Jfalk. Cat. Het. ii, p. 303 (1867). 

 For fnll synonymy cf. Dist. Biol. Centr.-Am., Eliyuch. i, p. 78 (1880). 



Pale or dark green, sometimes greenish-ochraceous, densely 



punctate ; antennae green, 

 apices of the third and 

 apical areas of fourtli 

 and fifth joints purplish- 

 brown ; extremity of seg- 

 mental angles to abdomen 

 black. 



Var. rt. Head (excluding 

 base) and anterior area 

 and lateral margins of 

 pronotum pale luteous. 



A'ar. h. Above greenish- 

 ochraceous ; two spots at 

 base of head, three spots 

 on anterior ai'ea of pro- 

 notum, three basal and an apical spot to scutellum, and a discal 

 spot on apical ax-ea of corium, green. 

 Length 12 to 16 millim. 



Jfab. round throughout the whole of British India. — This 

 species is also distributed throughout the Paltearctic, Nearctic, 

 and Ethiopian Eegions, and over a large portion of the Neo- 

 tropical, Oriental, and Australasian Hegious. 



In India it has been found " on Potato-halms in Bangalore " 

 (J. Cameron), and near Bombay " mostly on the leaves of Gytuiri- 

 dropsis jtentajjhi/Ua '' (B. 21. Dixon). 



354. Nerara antennata, Scott, A. M. N. H. (4) xiv, p. 299 (1874). 

 Var. Nezara icterica, Horv. Tcrmesz. Filzetek, xii, p. 31 (1889). 

 Var. Nezara balteata, Horv. loc. cit. p. 32. 



A smaller and broader species than N. viridula, with the apex 



Fig. 139. — Nezara viridula. 



