405 



ORIENTAL HETEROPTERA 



by 11 .-L. Distant. 



I. — Family PENTATOMID^. 

 Subfamily PHLŒIN.E. 

 SERBANA gen. nov. 



Body strongly depressed, moderately concavely reclined on each 

 side, above more or less tuberculate; head clearly exserted from 

 the pronotum, large, with four prominent lobes, two anterior broad, 

 well separated, their apices obliquely truncate, the latéral lobes 

 curved, subacutely angulate, their apices parallel with the anterior 

 margins of the pronotum, eyes prominent, subconical, a little 

 directed backward ; rostrum long, slender, extending beyond 

 middle of abdomen, tliird joint longest; antenn;o three_jointed, 

 inserted on each side of rostral canal at above one Ihird from apex 

 of head, iirst joint only very slightly longer than second, third 

 shortest; pronotum shorter than head, anterior margin a little 

 concave, anterior angles broadly rounded, latéral margins trun- 

 cate, coarsely dentate, posterior angles detached from posterior 

 margin which is truncate, disk tuberculous; scutellum scarcely 

 more than half the length of abdomen ; hemelytra extending beyond 

 middle of abdomen, corium broad, broadly, truncately lobate on 

 each side near base, membrane short and indistinctly separated 

 from corium ; abdominal segments lobately truncately produced on 

 each side, their apices strong dentate; sternum centrally sulcate; 

 abdomen beneath flattened, strongly centrally sulcate; tarsi three 

 jointed, first joint shortest; legs unarmed. 



Type ; S. horneensis Dist. 



This is an eastern représentative of the Phlœina?, and principally 

 difiers from the typical neotropical yenus Phlœa by the position of 

 the insertion of the antennae. 



Serbana borneensis sp. n. — Dark fuscous-brown above, 

 black beneath; head above tuberculously granulose, the eyes black; 

 pronotum tuberculously granulose, with three discal tubercles, 

 the central one erect, the two latéral ones transverse, depressed, 

 the posterior angles posteriorly recurved; scutellum strongly tuber- 

 culously granulate excepting on basai disk which is' moderately 

 foveate; corium tuberculously granulose; beneath the lobate pro- 

 longations to head, sternum, and corium are thickly fmely granulose 

 and their apices strongly dentate; abdomen beneath rugulosely 



