Mr. W. L. Distant on Pentatominee. 421 



on basal area, more thicklj and brovvnly punctate on posterior 

 area ; a large spot in each basal area, a larger spot on each 

 lateral margin before middle, and a smaller (often obscure) 

 discal spot between them black. Corium ochraceous, broadly 

 black at base, brownish towards apex. Connexivum, body 

 beneath, and legs ochraceous ; head and margins of pro- and 

 mesosternum widely black, lateral margins of metasternum 

 widely castaneous ; stigmatal abdominal spots fuscous. An- 

 tennaj brownish ochraceous, the two apical joints piceous. 

 Rostrum brownish ochraceous, its apex piceous. 



Anterior lateral angles of the pronotum moderately and 

 subacutely produced ; scutellum broad, concavely sinuate 

 before middle, its apex about reaching apex of abdomen, 

 strongly depressed posteriorly. 



Long. 5 millim. ; exp. pronot. angl. 3^-4 millim. 



Hab. Ceylon (Atkinson Coll. : Brit. Mus.) ; Pegu (Atkin- 

 son Coll. : Brit. Mus.). 



Genus PlEZODORUS. 



Piezodorus rubrofasciatus. 



Cimex rubrofasciatus, Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. p. 293 (1787). 

 Rhaxjhigaster extenuatus, Walk. Cat. Het. ii. p. 371. n. 84 (1867). 

 lihaphiy aster 2)aUescens, Walk. loc. cit. iii. p. 568 (1868), 



Piezodorus punctiventris. 



RhajMgaster inmctiventris, Dall. List Hem, i. p. 284. n. 31 (1851). 

 Antestia pimctiventris, Walk. Cat. Het, ii. p. 280. n. 8 (1867). 



Piezodorus ? inexjjertus. 

 Rhaphigaster ine.rpertus, Walk. Cat. Het. ii. p. 363. n. 56 (1867), 



The type and only specimen of this species upon which 

 "V\"alker tounded his description is in bad condition and unfit 

 for exact determination. 



Piezodorus incarnatus. 



Cimex incarnatus, Germ. Faun. Ins. Eur. iv. p. 23. 



Piezodorus incarnatus, Mulsant & Key, Ann. Soc. Linn, de Lyon, 1867, 



p. 224. 

 Rhaphigaster lyarilis, Walk. Cat. Het, ii. p. 374. n. 95 (1867). 



Genus Thoreyella. 



Thoreyella concolor, 

 Mormidea concolor, Walk. Oat. Het. ii. p. 256, n. 27 (1867). 



