350 coreidtE. 



570. Petillia patulicollis, IVafk. (Trematocoris) Cat. Ret. iv, p. 37 



(1871). 



Pale brownish or browuish-ochraceous, moderately ocbraceously 

 pilose ; pronotuni finely darkly creuulate, the lateral angles broadly 

 and somewhat convexly produced, their margins serrated and each 

 terminating in a small spine directed backward ; membrane shining 

 brassy-brown ; posterior femora somewhat strongly incrassated in 

 both sexes, finely tuberculous above, spinous beneath ; posterior 



Fig. 211. — Petillia patidicollis. 



tibiae dilated on inner margin and very irregularly dentate, broadest 

 near base, and most strongly spined a little before apex ; in the male 

 there is a prominent spine on each side at base of metasteruum. 



Length 26 to 31 ; breadth between pronotal angles 11 to 13 

 miUim. 



Hah. Sikhim. Niiga Hills (C/tm^ieZ?)- 



571. Petillia valida, Ball. (Mictis) List Hem. ii, p. 398 (1852). 



Black, somewhat shining ; anterior and intermediate legs and 

 the posterior tarsi ochraceous ; apices of the anterior and inter- 

 mediate femora, bases and apices of the anterior and intermediate 

 tibiae, and apices of all the tarsi black ; legs moderately ])ilose, 

 anterior and intermediate femora with small black spines and 

 tubercles ; posterior tibia) in the male dilated, inwardly^ gibbous and 

 obsoletely spinous near base, then concave and serrated to about 

 one-third before apex, where there is a very strong spine, thence 

 spined to apex, the spines decreasing in length ; pronotal margins 

 strongly serrated, the lateral angles moderately prominent, deflected, 

 recurved, with an acute apical spine. 



Length 25 ; breadth between pronotal angles 11 millim. 



Hah. Ceylon {Parry, Brit. Mus.). 



