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PENTATOMID.E. 



Telepta, Stal, Bidr. till Rio Jan.-trakt. Hem. i, p. 10 (1858). 



Subo-. Troilus, Stal, Of v. Vet.-Ak. Fork. 1867, p. 498. 



Subg. Apoecilus & Tylospilus, SlSl, En. Hem. i, pp. 49 & 52 (1870). 



Type, P. lineolatus, Herr.-Schaff., a Central American species. 



Distribution. Nearctic and Neotropical Regions ; one Palsearctic 

 species found in India. 



A very variable genus, already separated into many subgenera 

 {supra). As only one species is found in this fauna, the characters 

 of that species alone require to be desci'ibed here. It is at once 

 separable from Audinetia by the shorter head and body, the rounded 

 pronotal angles (in many Neotropical species, however, these are 

 spinous), the dentate anterior lateral pronotal margins, the 

 rounded apices of the lateral lobes to head, &c. 



401. Podisus luridus, Fabr. (Cimex) Si/st. Fnt. p. 701 (1775) ; Hahn, 

 (Ai-Dia) Wanz. Ins. i, p. 97, t. lo, f. 53 (1831); Herr.-Schiif. 

 (Pentatoma) ISiom. Fnt. i, p. 56. 92 (1835) ; Biirm. (Asopus) 

 Handb. Fnt. ii, p. 379 (1835) ; Atkins. J. A. S. B. 1888, p. 180 & 

 synonymy. 

 Cimex elector, Fabr. Ent. Si/st. iv, p. 98 (1794). 

 Pentatoma subhuida, Westir. in Hjpe Cat. i, p. 41 (1837). 

 Var. angusta, Rent. Berl. ent. Zeitschr. xxx, p. 156 (1881). 



Ochraceous, thickly covered with bronzy punctures ; head, pro- 

 notal margins, and con- 

 nexivum bronzy-green, the 

 latter with reddish- ochra- 

 ceous transverse spots ; 

 pronotum with the lateral 

 dentate margins luteous, 

 the lateral angles broadly 

 and somewhat laminately 

 produced ; scutelliim M"ith 

 a dark foveate impression 

 in each basal angle : an- 

 tennae black, apices of 

 second and third joints 

 (narrowly), apex of fourth 

 joint (broadly), and base 



of fifth joint luteous ; legs ochraceous, spotted with black. 

 Var. Apex of seutellum narrowly luteous. 

 Length 10^ to 13 ; breadth between pronotal angles 7 to, 8 



niillim. 



Hab. N. India. Burma (Coll. Dist.). — A widely distributed 



Palsearctic species. 



Genus ASOPUS. 



Asopus, Burm. Nov. Act. Acad. Leop. xvi, Snppl. p. 292 (1834) ; 



Stal, Hem. Afr. i, p. 63 (1864). 

 Amyotea, Flle7ir. Nat. Tijdschr. Ncderl. Ltd. xxiv, p. 137 (1862). 



Type, A. malaharicus, Fabr. 



Fig. 161. — Podisus luridus 



