300 PENTATOMID^. 



476. Tetroda divaricata, Ball. List Hem. i, p. 356 (18ol). 



General form and shape of T. trnnsvermlis, but ochraceous, 

 somewhat thickly punctate ; antennae, extreme margins of lateral 

 lobes of head, extreme lateral margins of pronotum, and base of 

 lateral margin to corium piceous ; membrane greyish, opaque, 

 the veins brownish ; body beneath and legs, especially the 

 abdomen, darker in hue and moderately but distinctly punctate. 



Length 13 ; breadth between pronotal angles 7 millim. 



Eah. Nepal {Hardwirle, Brit. 2Ius.). 



b. Lateral lobes of head luitJt, their apical margins broadly 

 rounded. 



477. Tetroda atomaria, Dull. List Hem. 1, p. 350 (1851). 



Head ochraceous, thickly and faintly punctured ; lateral lobes 

 nearly meeting at the apex, lateral margins straight ; pronotum 

 with "the anterior portion ochraceous, obscurely punctate, becoming 

 fuscous anteriorly with numerous small elevated ochraceous points ; 

 scutellum piceous, punctate, \\ith ochraceous points as on pro- 

 notum, these on apical half forming t\\o central lines, an elongate 

 levigate luteous spot near each basal angle ; corium more or less 

 piceous, with several irregular longitudinal ochraceous lines,, 

 darkest on interior area ; membrane greyish-white, opaque : body 

 beneath and legs ochraceous, with a sublateral black fascia on 

 each side, more or less broken and interrupted ; stigmata pale 

 ochraceous ; sternum and femora punctured with brownish ; 

 rostrum ochraceous ; antennae pale luteous (apical joint mutilated 

 in type). Lateral lob«s of the head with their apical margins 

 broadly roimded. 



Length 13 ; breadth between pronotal angles 7 millim. 



Hab. North India (Boi/s, Brit. IIus.). 



478. Tetroda obtusa, TJall. List Hem. i, p. 367 (1851) ; Stal, (Gellia?) 



Bh. Hem. v, p. 124 (1876); Atkins. (Gellia) J.A.S.B. Iviii, 

 p. 106 (1889). 



Ochraceous, thickly and finely punctate ; lateral margins of the 

 head with a minute black spine apically ochi^aceous on each side in 

 front of eyes ; pronotum with an indistinct transverse ridge on 

 the posterior area ; scutellum with an elongate black spot at each 

 basal angle and with a few scattered black punctures : membrane 

 very pale luteous, opaque : body beneath and legs ochraceous, with 

 a large transverse impunctate fovea on each side of each segment, 

 a few black punctures near each of the stigmata ; sternum rather 

 coarsely punctate, with a few scattered black points and an 

 oblong .black spot on each side of the metasternum ; antennae and 

 rostrum ochraceous, the last with the apex black. Lateral lobes of 

 the head broad and rounded anteriorly. 



Length 13 ; breadth between pronotal angles 7 millim. 



Hab. North India {Boys, Brit. Mus.). 



