HHYNCHOTA. 



HEMIPTERA-HETEROPTERA. 



Family PENTATOMIV^l, Stal. 

 Sub-family CYDNIN^! (CYDNINA), Stal. 



1. ^ETHTJS MATJRUS, Dall. 



A. maurua, Dall., List, pt. 1, p. 118, 18 (1851) .Walk., Cat. Het. 1, p. 158 (1857). Stal, Enu- 

 merat. Hemip., pt. 5, p. 26, 1876. 



Sab. Jhelam Valley, July 1873. 

 Distributed generally throughout Hindustan. 



2. ./ETHUS, sp. 



Allied to u?E. pygmaeus, Dall., of which it is probably only a slight variety. The col- 

 lection contains only one specimen. 



Hab. On the road across the Pamir, from Sarikol to Panja, April to May 1874. 



Su.b-fa,m.-ASOPIN^l (ASOPIDA), Stal. 

 3. ZlCBONA CffiRTJLEA, Lin. 



Cimex ceruleus, Lin., Syst. Nat., ed. 10, i, p. 445, 38 (1758). Stal, Enumerat. Hemip., pt. 1, p. 36, 

 (1870). 



Sab. Kugiar, South Yarkand, May to June 1874. 



This wide-ranging species extends throughout the whole of the Palaearctic and Oriental 

 regions. 



Europa tota, India orientalis, Java, Borneo, Malacca (Stal.) ; Astracan (Jacovlev) ; N. 

 W. Siberia (Sahlberg) ; Bagdad (Coll. Brit. Mus.) ; Morocco, Japan (Coll. Distant). 



Sub-fam. PENTATOMIN& (PENTATOMINA), Stal. 



4. DALPADA CONFUSA, Dist. Fig. 1. 



Dalpada confusa, Dist., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1879, p. 121. 



Luteous, thickly covered with green punctures. Head emarginate in front with the sides 

 reflexed, and some small indistinct ochreous markings at base. Antennae pitchy, each joint 

 luteous at base, basal and apical joints smallest, 2nd shorter than 3rd, 3rd and 4th subequal. 

 Rostrum just passing posterior coxae, with the tip pitchy. Pronotum somewhat transversely 

 gibbous at base in a line with lateral angles, after which it is abruptly deflexed towards head, 

 lateral angles prominent, subacute, lateral margins denticulated for about half their length 



