316 



pentatomim:. 



those ou scutellum a little the deepest ; corium finely punctate, 

 its lateral area more coarsely and sparsely punctate : body beneath 

 and legs ocbraceous or greenish-ochraceous, apical margin of the 

 sixtb abdominal segment and the whole of the anal appendages 

 pale sanguineous : prosternum coarsely punctate ; antennae with 

 the first, second, and third joints olivaceous, their apices somewhat 

 infuscated (remaining joints mutilated in type). 



Length 15; breadth between pronotal angles 7k millim. 



Hah. jSTorth India (Gen. HarclwicJce, Brit. Mus.). 



509, Acanthosoma distinctum, Ball. List Hem. 1, p. 304 (1851): 

 Hiuter, L'erl. cut. Zcitschr. xxv, p. 75 (1881). 



Above pale olive-green, rather thickly punctured w ith black ; 

 head pointed in front, finely punctured : pronotuni with a trans- 

 verse impunctate space towards the anterior margin, lateral 

 angles prominent, subspinose, obtuse, ferruginous ; scutellum 

 brownish, becoming green towards the apex, with the apex itself 

 \^'hitish : membrane brownish, semitransparent, with a dark line 



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Fisr. 198. — Acanihosoma dis/incfum. 



at the base, surrounding the apical margin of the corium ; abdomen 

 above red, with the margins bright orange, with a black band at 

 the junction of each segment : body beneath pale testaceous ; 

 abdomen in the male with the emargination of the apical segment 

 very deep, reaching the middle of the abdomen, the margins 

 spotted with black ; legs pale greenish, with the tarsi fulvous. 



Length 15 to 19; breadth between pronotal angles 9 to 10 millim. 



Bab. North India (Bot/s, Brit. Mus.) ; Darjeeling. — A common 

 species in Japan. 



510. Acanthosoma coralliferum, Hon: Termesr.. Fiizetek, xii, p. 34 



(1889). 



Above olivaceous-green, underneath palely testaceous, pro- 

 sternum and legs palely green; head nearly impunctate; pronotum 



