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PENTATOMID.5:. 



Genus MERCATUS, nov. 



Type, M. illaminatus, Dist. 



Dtstributioi. North India. 



Head moderately narrowed anteriorly, lateral lobes longer than 

 central lobe and united in front of it, margins slightly retlexed ; 

 antennae with the basal joint not reaching the apex of head, second 

 longer than third, remaining joints mutilated in type ; rostrum 

 reaching the anterior coxae ; pronotum broad, the lateral margins 

 straightly oblique and sei'rate, the lateral angles somewhat strongly 

 and angulately produced ; scutellum moderately broad, narrowed, 

 beyond middle ; corium with the lateral margins obscurely palely 

 crenulate ; mesosternnm carinate. 



Allied to Basicryptus, Herr.-Sch., from which it differs by the 

 narrower head, which is slightly longer than broad, and by the 

 more obscure crenulate or wrinkled margiu of the corium. 



465. Mercatus illuminatus, Dist. (Basicryptus) Tr. E. S. 1887, 

 p. 358. 



Body above dull dark reddish ; pronotum with a broad discal 

 transverse luteous fascia margined with black, attenuated at each 



end, and slightly notched beneath 

 at ceutre ; head with the eyes 

 dull ocbraceous ; antennae with 

 the Hrst, second, and third joints 

 reddish, remainder mutilated in 

 type ; scutellum with a small 

 luteous spot in each basal angle, 

 \\'ith a few very small luteous 

 spots at apex, and with some 

 central and lateral black punc- 

 tures ; corium with the base 

 of the lateral margin narrowly 

 luteous and witli some small and 

 scattered black spots ; membrane pale hyaline, with small fuscous 

 spots: body beneath and legs dull reddish with blackish punctures; 

 disk of sternum and some sublateral streaks to abdomen obscure 

 luteous : tarsi somewhat ochraceous beneath. 



Length 14 ; breadth between prouotal angles 10 millim. 

 Hob. North India (Co?Z. Dist.). 



Fig. 186. — Mercatus llluiiibiatus. 



Genus SAL VI ANUS, nov. 



Type, /S. lunatus, Dist. 



Distribution. Assam : Burma. 



Allied to the preceding genus (Mercatus), but differing by the 

 structure of the scutellum, which is long, slender, and gradually, 

 only slightly, narrowed posteriorly. In this last character Salvianns 

 agrees with Gonopsis, but is distinguished from that genus by the 



