262 



PENTAT0MID.5;. 



Length 21 ; breadth between pronotal angles 20 milHm. 

 Hah. Tenasseriin : Myitta {Dohertij). 



Differing principally from P. acutus by the longer and more 

 anteriorly produced pronotal angles. 



Genus AMISSUS. 

 Amissus, St&l, Tr. E. S. (3) i, p. 595 (1863). 



Type, A. atlas, Stal. 



Distribution. Tenasserim, Malayana. 



Body large, oval ; head subelongate, lateral lobes very long, 

 continuous before the central lobe, ocelli remote^ from the eyes, 

 antennae four-jointed ; pronotum with the posterior margin 

 convexly produced over the base of the scutellum ; corium with 

 the apical margin straight, the apical angle rounded : membrane 

 with the veins forming many areolets or cells at base ; meso- 

 sternum somewhat broadly elevated and widely emarginate 

 anteriorly ; metasternum broadly elevated and posteriorly broadly 

 sinuate to receive the basal abdominal tubercle ; legs somewhat 

 short, femora armed with two spines at apices. 



411. Amissus atlas, StSJ, Tr. E. S. (3)i, p. 596 (1863) ; Atk. J. A. S. B. 

 Iviii, p. 03 (1889). 



" Dark castaneous ; narrow margin and posterior area of 

 pronotum, apex of scutellum, hemelytra, coxte, trochanters, and 



Fig. 167. — Aiii/.-<6H.s «//(^^. 



abdominal ^nargin dilutely castaneous; antennae, veins of hemelytra, 

 and the tarsi yellowish-castaneous ; apical angles of the abdominal 

 segments black." (Stdl.) 



Length 41 ; breadth 19 millim. 



Hab. Tenasserim {Athinson Coll.). — Singapore {Brit. Mus.). 



Stal's type is here figured. 



