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visible in the posterior area of the vertex, two impressions, one 

 before the other on each side near the eyes . . . . , anterior margin 

 of the head obtusely rounded ; . . . . pronotum very transverse, 

 nearly three times broader than long, finely granulose, punctured 

 on all the surface, with the anterior margin obtusely sinuate on each 

 side behind the eyes, the lateral margins a little curved with the pos- 

 terior lateral angles very broadly rounded, and also broadly clear 

 yellowish . . . . ; scutellum entirely black ; corium with the outer 

 margin curved ; embolium very much dilated behind [? in front], 

 moderately contracted posteriorly, margin narrowly yellow on the 

 anterior three-fourths ; claval commissure nearly as long as the 

 scutellum ; membrane black ; connexivuin yellow, with the posterior 

 angles of the segments a little acuminate behind ; body beneath 

 pitchy brown." (Montandon.) 



Length 13 millim ; maximum breadth at middle of abdomen 

 8-8 millim. 



Hal. Trichinopoly (Dubreuil). Burma ; Shan States (Coll. 

 Distant). 



Dr. Montandon locates this species as near his H. breviceps, 

 and remarks that at present it is the largest species of the 

 genus yet described. 



I have somewhat condensed the original description to the 

 diagnostic limits imposed in the preparation of these volumes. 



3097. Heleocoris rotundatus, Montand. Ann. Mus. Nat. Hung, vi, 

 p. 302 (1908). 



Head about half as long as breadth between eyes, thickly finely 

 granulose, brownish ochraceous, centrally blackish ; pronotum 



Fig. 181. Heleocoris rotundatus. 



about three times as broad at base as medial length, brownish 

 ochraceous, much suffused with blackish except on the lateral 

 marginal areas which are ochraceous with a few minute black 

 spots, the disk finely granulose and punctate, depressed and 



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