hemiptera hetebopteea of ceylon. s3 



Etsaecobis DUBIUS. 



Eysarcoris dubius, Dall. List Hem. Ins. B. M. \. p. 227, n. 7 (1851) ; 

 Atk. J. A. S. B. Ivii. p. 40 (1888). 



Described from Tenasserim. Dohrn mentions a supposed 

 variety from Ceylon. 



*tETSABCOEIS aUTTIGEEUS. 



Cimex guttigerus, Thunb. Nov. Spec. Ins. p. 32, pi. ii. f. 47 (1783). 

 Common in China and India. Mr. Grreen's specimens are 

 labelled " Putlam." 



*tANTESTIA CONCINlSrA. 



Rhaphigaster conciuna, Dall. List Hem. Ins. B. M. i. p. 285 (1851). 

 Two specimens in Mr. Grreen's collection, one reddisb and the 

 other greenish olive. 



*tAlSrTESTIA PUFCTATISSIMA, Sp. n. 



Long. Corp. 7 millim. ; lat. 4 millim. 



Testaceous, thickly covered with black punctures arranged 

 more or less in lines ; head above with two black median lines, 

 slightly diverging in front, two others on each side, meeting at 

 half the length to form a single thicker stripe on each side in 

 front, and another short black stripe beneath each eye ; pronotum 

 with the angles not very prominent and with the punctures 

 arranged in irregular transverse lines ; scutellum with the centre 

 irregularly punctured, the margins more thickly and regularly, 

 and the apex with a large impunctate, smooth, bone-coloured 

 spot. Corium with the punctures most Knear towards the borders, 

 and a nearly impunctate space close to the extremity near the 

 costa, and another on the inner margin, between which is a black 

 spot, about the middle, from which a dusky space, shaded with 

 reddish, extends to the inner margin. Under surface rufo-tes- 

 taceous; the front half and hind border of the pectus, and the sides 

 of the pectus and abdomen, thickly punctured with black ; the 

 thoracic angles and the extremities of the sutures of the abdomen 

 are distinctly spotted with black. 



In Mr. Green's collection, without special locality. Allied to 

 A. quadrimaculata, Walk., from Celebes. 



*tHALTOM:OBPHA PICEUS. 



Cimex piceus, Fabr. Syst. Rhyng. iv. p. 115, n. 138 (17^4). 



Halyomorpha picus, Atk. J. A. S. B. Ivii. p. 23 (1888). 



Halys timorensis, Hope, Cat. p. 22 (1837). 



Pentatoma trivialis, Dohrn, Stett. ent. Zeit. xxi. p. 400, n. 22 (1860). 



