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PENTATOMID.E. 



the anterior lateral angles dentate, a distinct ridge between the 

 central pronotal angles, which are more coarsely punctate; scutellum 

 with an obscure central ridge; corium with the inner area opaque 

 and somewhat sparingly darkly punctate, the costal area more 

 thickly and finely punctate ; membrane pale purplish-brown ; 

 abdomen beneath and legs concolorous, abdomen with a marginal 

 series of small spots at apices of incisures and two spots at base 

 of sixth segment black. 



Length 23 ; breadth between pronotal angles 16 millim. 



Hah. Darjeeling {Bnt. Mus.). 



Genus VITRUVIUS. 

 Vitruvius, Bist. Tr. E. S. 1001, p. 111. 



Type, V. insii/nis, Dist. 



Distribution. Burma. 



Body ovate, moderately gibbous, attenuated posteriorly ; head 

 small, deflected, lateral lobes meeting in front of central lobe, 

 lateral margins reflexed, anterior margin subtruncate, posterior 

 margin truncate, well inserted in the pronotum ; ocelli rather 

 nearer to eyes than to each other ; rostrum reaching the inter- 

 mediate coxae, second joint longest ; antennae five-jointed, basal 

 joint stout, not quite reaching apex of head ; second and third 

 joints longest and subequal in length, fourth and fifth a little 

 shorter and subequal ; pronotum convex, deflected anteriorly, 

 broader than long, the whole lateral area produced into a broad 

 subacute angulation ; scutellum convex, more than half the length 

 of the abdomen, its apex narrowed and rounded ; corium with its 

 lateral margins convex, its apical margin .slightly rounded ; 

 membrane with longitudinal veins emitted from basal cellular 

 areas ; abdomen with the lateral margins entire, not projecting 

 beyond corium ; prosternum longitudinally sulcate ; mesosternum 

 obscurely carinate ; metasternum obscurely elevated ; legs mode- 

 rately robust ; tibiae sulcated ; tarsi three-jointed. 



437. Vitruvius insignis, Dist. Tr. E. S. 1901, p. 112. 



Ochraceous ; anterior lateral 

 margins of pronotum, lateral 

 margins of corium near base, 

 some obscure longitudinal punc- 

 tures to pronotum in about six 

 series, a double discal series at 

 base of scutellum, some scattered, 

 punctures on disk of corium 

 and apical area of scutellum, 

 black : body beneath luteous, 

 legs ochraceous ; head finely 

 wrinkled and punctate, pro- 

 notum more closely so and with 

 two elongate, transverse, impunctate spaces near anterior margin ; 



Vitruvius insignis. 



