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PENTATOMIDjE. 



central lobe and contiguous in front of it, lateral margins distinctly 

 sinuated ; rostrum short, passing the anterior coxse ; pronotum 

 with the posterior margin convex ; membrane with the veins at 

 base forming a number of areolas or cells ; presternum centrally 

 furrowed ; mesosternum with a furrowed ridge or two parallel 

 ridges ; metasternum not elevated ; abdomen dilated and pos- 

 teriorly angulated on each side. 



434. Dalcantha dilatata, Amtj. Sf Serv, Hem. p. 171 (184.3) ; Dist. 



A. 31. N. H. (7) vi, p. 61 (1900). 

 Dalcantha regia, Walk. Cat. Het. iii, p. 474. .3 (1868). 



Head, pronotum, and scutellum olivaceous, or dark purplish- 

 brown, corium more 

 distinctly purplish ; apex 

 of scutellum luteous ; 

 membrane pale brassy- 

 brown : body beneath and 

 legs dull ochraceous, the 

 segmental incisures to 

 both sternum and abdo- 

 men and some liueate 

 markings distinctly 

 darker ; antennae black, 

 basal joint mostly dark 

 ochraceous, apex of fourth 

 joint luteous. 



Length 25 to 27 ; 

 breadth at abdominal dilatation 17 to 19 millim. 



Hah. " North India " and Cachar {Coll. Dist.). 



435. Dalcantha inermipes, Stai, Tr. E. S. (3) i, p. m<d (1863). 

 Purplish-brown above ; body beneath, legs, and nearly basal half 



of costal margin to corium pale ochraceous ; the body beneath 

 sparingly mottled with pale fuscous : antennae and a median 

 central line to abdomen black ; basal joint of antennae ochraceous. 



Allied to D. dilatata, but with the pronotum a little shorter, 

 lateral anterior angles more dilated and rounded, antennas more 

 slender ; femora unarmed. 



Length 20 to 22 ; breadth between abdominal dilatations 14 

 to 15 millim. 



Hah. Punjab {Brit. Mus.). Niiga Hills {Doherty). * 



Fig. 175. — Dalcantha dilatata. 



* Dalcantha stalii, VoU. Tijdschr. Ent. Ned. hid. (2) i, p. 220, pi. II, 

 f. 8 (1866) ; Btal (part.) En. Hem. i, p. 76 (1870). 



I do not know this species ; and Stal in admitting its validity bas cited the 

 B. regia. Walk., as a synonym. This proposed species of Walker I have 

 examined and can only regard as a synonym of D. dilatata. I quote Vollenhoven's 

 species here solely on the authority of Stal, and cannot give its differential 

 characters. 



