tiew Or'hufd! Pentutomoulea. 



4s;j 



])ale siilteicft pilosity, (he median iVmalc ijeiiital lobes nearly 

 twici^ liroailer tliaii Ion<^ at tlicir inteiii)r inar^iii, l)Ut not 

 reacliin^ lateral angles of bnsal lobes, apical lobes aiciiately 

 trian<;ular, acute at a|)ex. Colour argillaceous, ju^^a and 

 lateral borders of protliorax, of coriuni, and of »l»domen 

 roddi.sb oran<;e, lateral margins of cl} peus, a median basal 

 fascia to head cmittin;^ two vittaj to baso of clypeus, 

 four roundeil spots placed transversely in anterior part of 

 })ioiiotuin (one at each end of cicatrices), two lon^^iiudinal 

 bands near middle of posterior portion of pronotum, three or 

 four spots between these bands and the lateral mar;;ins, a 

 basal spot to scutellnm on each side not far from the anj^les, 

 a large scutellar marking resembling a written X '»^'''' t''** 



'f"~^. 



end of the branches strongly dilated, a curved abljrtviated 

 fascia on each side of the X""*''''^!'*^'^ marking, a sublateral 

 vitta to plcurre, a broad anterit)rly abbreviateil vitta to nieso. 

 corium, an interior apical vitta to exocorium, the apical 

 angles of the abdominal segnients, the tiansverse sublateral 

 impression behind the spiracles, and a median spot to sixth 

 ventral segment black ; basal area of scutellnm (except 

 the black markings) pale yellow ; membrane fuseous ; all 

 punctures of the argillaceous p.uts of pionotnm and scutellnm 

 placed in a small round semipellucid spot of a peculiar watery 

 dark greyish colour not unlike that of dilutui ink ; antennje 

 piceous, first joint, apical half of second, and basal half of 

 third joint testaceous; rostrum, excej)t first joint, black; 

 legs daik testaceous, femora njore or less suffused with 

 fuscous. 



Length, $ 14 mm., width ^'O mm. 



Borneo : 8antubong in Sarawak [J. C. Moulton). 



Allied to ('. arteiisis, Montr., but differing in the verv nuuh 

 less punctured basal area of scutellum, longer sixth ventral 

 segment, and several other details. The colouiing is pro- 

 balily variable as in the other species of the genus, but in the 



