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pentatomim:. 



Genus SASTRAGALA. 



Sastragala, Ami/. S,- Seir. Hem. p. 1-55 (1843) ; StSl, Ofv. Vet.-Ak. 

 Fork. 1870, p. 638 ; id. En. Hem. \, p. 110 (1876). 



Type, S. unigutfata, Don. 



Distribution. Oriental Eegion, New Guinea, and Japan, 

 Pronotum anteriorly levigate, with a subanterior marginal row, 

 sometimes double, of punctures ; lateral angles of the pronotum 

 horizontally produced, their apices obtusely rounded ; scutellum 

 narrowed at the apex ; apical angles of sixth abdominal segment 

 in male straight or somewhat acute, not rounded ; mesosternal 

 ridge not produced hindwards, and not or very slightly extending 

 beyond the anterior margin of the prosternum, more or less 

 distinctly rounded at apex. 



A. Scutellum until a large ochrmeous spot. 



513. Sastragala heterospila, Walk. (Acanthosoma) Cat. Het. ii,. 



p. 391 (1867) ; Atk. J. A. S. B. Iviii, p. 29 (1889). 

 Sastragala affinis, Atk. J. A. S. B. Ivii, p. 344 (1889). 



Ochraceous, somewhat thickly punctate; head with the apex 



of the central lobe slightly 

 prominent; pronotum with 

 the lateral angles and a 

 more or less well-defined 

 fascia between them black; 

 between this fascia and 

 the base the punctures are 

 black ; scutellum black or 

 f^^'-^^ i ^ \ M L ^ blackly punctate, with a 

 ^ *' ^ large levigate discal ochra- 



ceous spot, apex also pale 

 luteous ; corium with a 

 small black spot at inner 

 angle, and a lunate black 

 fascia near outer apical 

 margin ; connexivum luteous, with the extreme apices of the 

 segmental spines black, posterior margins of sixth segment black ; 

 antennae ochraceous ; abdominal spine passing the intermediate 

 coxge ; rostrum about reaching the posterior coxae. 



Length 11 to llg ; breadth between pronotal angles 7 to 

 8 millim. 



Bah. Punjab {Brit. Mus.). Bunkoti in Jaunsar, 9000 feet 

 {AtUnson). Nilgiri Hills (Hampson). 



514. Sastragala uniguttata, Do7t. (Cimex) Ins. Ind, Hem. pi. xiv, 



f. 5 (1800) ; Ball. (Acanthosoma) List Hem. i, p. 311 (1851) ; 

 Stdl, En. Hem. v, p. 113 (1876). 



Allied to the preceding species (S. heterosjnla), but rostrum only 

 reaching the intermediate coxce, corium with the submargiual 

 punctures black and without the black apical markings ; in other 



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Fig. 199. — Sastraciala heterospila. 



