328 PE>^TATOMID.I. 



connexivum black ; prouotum with brownish suffusions, principally 

 on posterior ai'ea and at lateral angles ; scutellum much suffused 

 with dark bro^vnish at base, at disk, and at each apical margin, and 

 with a small pale levigate spot in each basal angle ; corium with a 

 transverse central and a broad apical brown suffusion ; abdomen 

 above reddish-brown, with the extreme apex piceous ; antennae 

 with the two basal joints ochraceous, the remaining joints fuscous, 

 second joint subequal to the third or slightly shorter : body 

 beneath and legs ochraceous ; prosternum and femora darkly 

 punctate ; sternal spots near coxae, stigmatal spots, and outer 

 marginal spots at segmental incisures black. 



Length 10 ; breadth between pronotal angles 51 millim. 



Hah. Mga Hills {Doliertij). 



537. Elasmostethus lewisi, Dht. A. M. N. H. (7) vi, p. 232 (1900). 



Ochraceous ; prouotum, scutellum, and corium coarsely and 

 darkly punctate ; scutellum with a central cordate, levigate spot 

 surrounded by castaneous shading, in which is a short central dark 

 lineate spot above and beneath ; extreme apices of pronotal angles, 

 apical margins or only angles of corium, a small spot at base of 

 membrane, and the apical abdominal segmental angles black ; 

 abdomen above reddish, with its lateral margins ochraceous ; mem- 

 brane hyaline, slightly brownish on inner and outer margins ; 

 antennfe ochraceous, second joint distinctly longer than the third, 

 apical joint some-what infuscated ; head transversely wrinkled ; 

 pronotum with two transverse levigate callosities on anterior area ; 

 corium w-ith the whole marginal area very finely and concolorously 

 punctate. 



Length 8 ; breadth between pronotal angles 4| millim. 



Hah. Nilgiri Hills {Brit. Mus.). Ceylon {Lewis). 



B. Lateral angles of pronotum spinously jproduced . 



538. Elasmostethus recurvuni, Dall. (Acanthosoma) List Hem. i, 



p. 310 (1851); ^tal (Clinocoris), En. Hem. \, p. 114 (1876); 

 Leth. 8,- Sev. Cat. Gen. Hem. t. i, p. 257 (1893). 



Ovate, above pale olivaceous punctured Avith black ; head thickly 

 and finely punctured with black : central lobe longer than the 

 lateral lobes ; pronotum thickly and strongly punctured with black, 

 the lateral angles produced into strong, acute, slightly recurved, 

 deep red spines, the disk with a broad, transverse, yellowish-white 

 fascia across the middle ; membrane transparent, brownish ; 

 connexivum ochraceous, with a black spot at the posterior angle 

 of each segment : body beneath fulvous, punctin*ed with black ; 

 the abdomen sparingly and finely, the sternum more thickly and 

 coarsely punctate ; abdominal ridge well marked and impunctate, 

 but not very prominent ; legs ochraceous, \\\\}a. the claws black ; 



