new Oriental Pentatomoidea. 483 



pale suberect pilosity, the median female genital lobes nearly 

 twice broader than long at their interior margin, but not 

 reaching lateral angles of basal lobes, apical lobes arcuately 

 triangular, acute at apex. Colour argillaceous, juga and 

 lateral borders of prothorax, of corium, and of abdomen 

 reddish orange, lateral margins of clypeus, a median basal 

 fascia to head emitting two vittge to base of clypeus, 

 four rounded spots placed transversely in anterior part of 

 proiiotum (one at each end of cicatrices), two longitudinal 

 bands near middle of posterior portion of pronotum, three or 

 four spots between these bands and the lateral margins, a 

 basal spot to scutellum on each side not far from the angles, 

 a large scutellar marking resembling a written X with the 



end of the branches strongly dilated, a curved abbreviated 

 fascia on each side of the X-shaped marking, a sublateral 

 vitta to pleurae, a broad anteriorly abbreviated vitta to meso, 

 corium, an interior apical vitta to exocorium, tiie apical 

 angles of the abdominal segments, the transverse sublateral 

 impression behind the spiracles, and a median spot to sixth 

 ventral segment black ; ba?al area of scutellum (except 

 the black markings) pale yellow ; membrane fuscous ; all 

 punctures of the argillaceous pfirts of pronotum and scutellum 

 placed in a small round semipellucid spot of a peculiar watery 

 dark greyish colour not unlike that of diluted ink ; antennae 

 piceous, tirst joint, apical half of second, and basal half of 

 third joint testaceous; rostrum, except first joint, black; 

 legs dark testaceous, femora more or less suffused with 

 fuscous. 



Length, ? 14 mm,, width ^'5 mm. 



Borneo : iSantubong in Sarawak {J. C, Moulton). 



Allied to C. artensis, Montr., but differing in the very much 

 less punctured basal area of scutellum, longer sixth ventral 

 segment, and several other details. The colouring is pro^ 

 bably variable as in the other species of the genus, but in the 



