110 ADDENDA . PKNTATOMID.E. 



ADDENDA. 



With the Jassidae, the Appendix (commenced in 1908, vol. iv, 

 p. 420) has been completed ; but during its publication a very 

 considerable amount of fresh material in the earlier groups 

 has also accumulated, especially the fine collections made by 

 Dr. T. V. Campbell in Southern India, which through the kind 

 influence of Mr. E. A. Butler have hitherto all passed through my 

 hands, and the types of new and examples of all the species 

 contained therein are now deposited in the cabinets of the British 

 Museum. 



The present European war has, however, prevented and still 

 forbids the loan of species described by Continental workers, and 

 frequently under these conditions, as no comparisons can be made, 

 references are only given to the original diagnoses. 



Family PENTATOMULE. (Vol. I, p. 1.) 

 Subfamily PLATASPIDIN^E. (Vol. I, p. 3.) 



Genus BRACHYPLATYS. (Vol. I, p. 8.) 



3673. Brachyplatys nitidus, Westw. (Plataspis) in Hope, Cat. p. 17 

 (1837) ; Germ. (Thyreocoris) Zeitschr. Ent. i, p. 35 (1839) ; 

 Atkins. (Brachyplatys) Journ. Asiat. Soc. Seng. Iv (2), x>. 29 

 (1887). 



Tbis species has hitherto proved an enigma. Westwood's 

 description was merely " Tota atra, nitida, tenue punctata, capite 

 lato, scutello postice emargiuato." This diagnosis was copied by 

 both Germar and Atkinson. It is probable that Westwood did 

 not examine the underside of his species. I have now four 

 specimens before me from South India that seem to be that 

 species. 



Body above totally shining black ; head unspotted ; body beneath 

 dull black ; legs and a narrow abdominal lateral margin containing 

 black foveation on the three basal segments, ochraceous ; antennae 

 ochraceous, penultimate joint (excluding base) and the whole of 

 the apical joint piceous ; eyes castaneous ; apex of scutellum in d* 

 distinctly emarginate, in 5 almost roundly truncate. 



Length 5-6; max. breadth 5-5^ millim. 



Hob. South India; Chikkaballapura (T. V, Campbell). 



