280 



PENTATOMIDjE. 



membrane large, veins reticulated ; mesosternum sulcated : ab- 

 domen unarmed at base. 



488. Cyclopelta obscura, Leiiell. 4- Sen. (Tessaratoma) Enc. Meth. x. 



p. 59i^ (1825) ; Amy. 8f Serv. Kern. p. 173 (1843). 

 Aspongopus alternaus, Westw. in Hope Cat. i, p. 26 (1837). 

 Aspongopus depressicornis, Serr.-Sehiiff. Wanz. iv, p. 85, 1". 418 



(1839) ; id. (Dinidor) op. cit. vii, p. 76 (1844). 



Black or blackish brown ; a small spot at base and apex of 

 scutellum and connexivum reddish ochraceous, the last with 

 black spots : body beneath and legs black ; the abdomen much 

 suffused with red, the lateral margins, to within the stigujata,^ 

 reddish-ochraceous, marginal spots and stigmata black ; above 

 closely, finely, and obscurely punctate ; pronotum and scutellum 

 obsoletely transversely wrinkled. 



Leugth 14 to 16 ; breadth 9 to 10 millim. 



Hah. Sikhim ; Calcutta ; Madras {Colh Atlinson). Bui'ma ; 

 Karennee (Fea). — A species found more abundantly in Malayana. 

 and recorded from China. 



439. Cyclopelta parva, Dist. A. M. N. H. (7) vi, p. 220 (1900). 



Closely allied to C. ohscura, but differing by its much smaller 

 size and by the antennae , which are shorter and broader than in 

 that species, the joints being broader and more spatulate ; the 

 connexivum is generally spotted with ochraceous, and there is 

 usually a small central basal ochraceous spot to the scutellum. 



Leugth 10 to 12 millim. 



Hah. Eangoon and Pegu (Atlinson Coll.). China; Kiukiaug 

 and vShantung. 



440. Cyclopelta siccifolia, WesfAV. (Aspongopus) in Hope Cat. i, p. 20- 



(1837) ; Dull. List Hem. i, p. 347 (1851). 

 Cyclopelta tartarea, Stal, Of v. Vet.-AJc. Fork. 1854, p. 234. 



Fig. 178. — Cyclopelta siccifolia. 

 Entirely black or subcupreous black, the [membrane more or 



