124 ADDENDA. PENTATOMIDjE. 



3692. Asylana punjabensis, sp. n. 



Head black, thickly punctate, with a central narrow, levigate, 

 longitudinal, linear, ocliraceous stripe; pronotum black, coarsely 

 punctate and rugulose, the basal two-thirds paler, a central cruci- 

 form, longitudinal, narrow fascia, and a shorter and very irregular 

 longitudinal stripe on each lateral area, levigate, ochraceous, the 

 anterior margin also narrowly ochraceous ; scutellum black, 

 coarsely punctate and rugulose, the rugosities somewhat casta- 

 neous on apical area; abdomen above black, the connexivum marked 

 with ochraceous near the middle of the segments ; head beneath 

 and sternum blackly punctate, base ot head and lateral margins and 

 areas of prosternum more or less ochraceous ; abdomen beneath 

 pale castaneous, blackly punctate, prominently spotted with black 

 on the terminal segments ; legs ochraceous, femora somewhat 

 thickly blackly punctate, bases and apices of tibiae black : corium 

 ochraceous. thickly spotted with black ; membrane bronzy brown; 

 structural characters as in generic diagnosis. 



Length 17 ; breadth between pronotal angles 9 millim. 



Hal. Punjab ; Simla (N. Renouf). 



Genus PHEICODUS. 



Phricodus, Spin. Rev. Mag. Zool. 1839, p. 331 ; St&l, Hem. Afr. 



i, p. 91 (1865) ; id.Enum. Hem. v, p. 49 (1876). 

 Stenotoma, Westw. Proc. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1844, p. cxix ; id. Trans. 



Ent. Soc. Lond. iv, p. 248 (1647). 



Tvpe, P. Tiystrix, Germ. 



IHstribution. South and Central Africa, Madagascar, Mauritius, 

 India. 



Body ovate, depressed ; head on each side before eyes armed 

 with a long spine, lateral lobes longer than the central lobe and 

 produced in long spines, the antenniferous tubercles also longly 

 spinous : antennae four- jointed, long, first joint short and incrassated, 

 second long and apicallv incrassated, third and fourth joints 

 distinctly thickened and fusiform ; rostrum extending to posterior 

 coxae, first joint reaching base of head ; pronotum with the lateral 

 margin with long spines ; scutellum triangular, the apical area 

 strongly narrowed ; sternum subsulc-ate ; apical angles of the 

 abdominal segments moderately prominent ; legs with the upper 

 surface of the tibiae sulcate. 



3693. Phricodus hystrix, Germ. (Aradus) Mlb. Rev. Ent. v, p. 134 



(1837) ; Spin. (Phricodus) Rev. Mag. Zool. 1839, p. 331, pi. 40 



(1839); Sign. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1849, p. 327, pi. ix, fig. 3 ; 



Dist. BuU. Ent. Res. iv, pt. 2, Sept. (1913) ; id. A. M. N. H. 



(8) xii, p. 283 (1913). 

 Stenotoma desjardinsii, Westw. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. iv, p. 249, 



pi. 18, tig. 6 (1847). 

 Phricodus fasciatus, Sign. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (3) viii, p. 924 



(1861). 



