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Peninsula an ample series of Stfil's species, which does not appear 

 to enter our fauna. 



406. Tessaratoma javanica, Tlmnh. (Cimex) Nov. Ins. Spec. ii. p. 4-') 



(1783) ; Ami/. S,- Serv. Hem. p. 165 (1848) ; Voll. Faun. Ind. 



Neerl. iii,p. 25, pi. ill, f. 4 b (1868) ; SfMl, En. Hem. i, p. 67 (1870). 

 Tessaratoma pvoxima, Westiv. in Hope Cat. i, p. 27 (1837). 

 Tessaratoma papillosa. Blanch. Hist. Ins. Hem. p. 142, pi. vi, f. 2 



(1840). 

 Tessaratoma angularis, Dohrn, Stett. ent. Zeit. xxiv, p. 349 (1863). 

 Tessaratoma striata, furcifera, timoreiisis & clara, Walk. Cat. Hef. 



iii, pp. 463 & 464 (1868). 

 Tessaratoma papillosum, vav. clara, Kirbij, Journ. Linn. Soc, Zoot. 



xxiv, p. 87 (1891). 

 Tessaratoma papillosa, part., Dist. A. M. N. H. (7) vi, p. 60 



(1900). 

 Stoll, Pun. f. 2. 



Ochraceous or brownish-ochraceous, sometimes pale olivaceous- 

 brown ; antennae black, apical joint generally, but not always, 

 brownish-ochraceous ; margins of head and pronotum very narrowly 

 piceous ; pronotum with the lateral margins moderately ampliated 

 and reflexed, not anteriorl}^ dilated as in the two preceding species, 

 but almost oblique from the lateral angles to head : apex of 

 scutellum more or less piceous : body beneath generally covered 

 with a white powdery substance ; legs and tarsi dark castaneous ; 

 body above very finely and obscurely punctate. In the male of 

 this species the anal appendage is truncate at its apex. 



Length 25 to 31 ; breadth 15 to 16| millim. 



Hah. Sikhim ; Assam {Atldnson Coll.). Bombay (Dixon). 

 Malabar and Secunderabad (CoZZ.i)('s<.). Ceylon (6r rem). Burma ; 

 Karennee (Fea). Tenasserim ; Meetan {Feci). — Also found 

 in the Malay Peninsula and several islands of the Malayan 

 Archipelago. 



The Soapnut-tree Bug, found on the tree of that name 

 {Sapinclm trifoUatns, Linn.), produces a shrill sound when caught : 

 common in Bombay from September to May (H. M. Dkvon). 



Considerable confusion has existed, and probably still exists, in 

 the synonymy of this and the following species {T, papillosa) ; from 

 an examination of a very large number of specimens, I conclude 

 that I was wrong in placing the four species described by Walker 

 {supra) as synonyms of T. papillosa, and that they really represent 

 T. javcmica. The colour of the antennae is a variable character, 

 and it is in male specimens that the real differeiitiation exists. 



407. Tessaratoma papillosa, Dmnj (Cimex), III. i, p. 96, t. 43, f. 2 



(1770) ; Wolff, Ic. i, p. 12, f. 12 (1800) ; Hahn, Wanz. Ins. ii. 



p. 123, pi. 67, f. 204 (1834) : Amy. 4'- Serv. Hem. p. 165 (1843) : 



StS,l, En. Hem. i, p. 67 (1870). 

 Cimex chiiiensis, Thunb. Nov. Ins. Sp. ii, p. 45, t. 2, f, 59 (1783). 

 Tessaratoma sonneratii, Lepell. S^' Serv. Enc. Meth. x, p. 590 (1825). 

 Larva : Tessaratoma ossa-crueuta, G?-at/, Griffith's An. Kingd. xv, 



p. 239, pi. 93, f. 1 (1832). 



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