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PENTATOMID-D. 



in length ; pronotum with the lateral margins distinctly piceous, 

 the anterior lateral and anterior margins narrowly ocliraceous ; 

 I'ostrum reaching the posterior coxse. 



Fig. 147.— Patcrcuhis affini.<. 



Length 11 millim. 



Hah. Sikhim {uitlinson Coll). Naga Hills (Coll. Dist.).— Also 

 received from West Yunnan. 



37S. Paterculus vittatus, Dist. (Plexippus) Tr. E. S. 1901, p. 109. 



Dull ocliraceous, thickly and darkly punctate, the coloration 

 distinctly darker on the head and anterior half of pronotum, which 

 is separated by a transverse levigate fascia : body beneath pale 

 ochraceous, the lateral areas of the sternum, a longitudinal fascia 

 on each side of abdomen, the stigmata, and a spot on apical 

 segment piceous ; legs ochraceous ; antennae ochraceous, apex of 

 third, more than apical half of fourth, and apical half of fifth joint 

 piceous, second and third joints subequal in length. 



Length 11 millim. 



Hah. Burma ; Karennee (Fea). 



Genus DABESSUS, nov. 



Type, D. repellens, Kirby. 



Distribution. Ceylon, Malay Peninsula. 



Body elongate ; head broad, rounded in front, lobes of almost 

 equal length, margins slightly retiexed ; basal joint of antenme 

 stout, not reaching apex of head ; rostrum not quire )'eaching the 

 posterior coxae ; pronotum with the lateral angles concavely 

 sinuate, a small blunt tooth near each anterior angle, the pos- 

 terior angles prominently and subacutely produced ; scutellum with 

 its apical third narrowed and extending beyond the middle of abdo- 

 men, which is posteriorly narrowed and has the apical angles of the 

 sixth segment pi'ominently and angularly produced, second seg- 

 ment with a distinct tubercle ; mesosternum with a narrow central 

 keel, metasternum with a central cruciform process. 



This genus will include Araducta malayana, Dist. 



