1888.] E. T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian Rhynchota. ^3 



Genus Halyomorpha, Mayr. 



Verb. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien. xiv, p. 911 (1864) : Reise Novara, p. 47 (1866) : 

 Stal, En. Hem. v, p. 57, 74 (1876). 



Body above compressed, beneath convex, head above flat, broad at 

 apex, rounded, lateral margins narrowly reflexed, parallel, a little sinuate : 

 tylus as long as the juga : antennas 5-jointed, first joint not reaching 

 apex of head, 3-5 joints somewhat of equal length, second joint shorter 

 than third : bucculse narrow, continued through, anteriorly dilated, sub- 

 dentiform : rostrum reaching 2 or 3 segments of the abdomen ; first joint 

 a little shorter than the bucculee, second joint scarcely twice as long as 

 the first and shorter than the two apical taken together : eyes large, 

 sessile : ocelli thrice more distant from each other than from the eyes : 

 pronotum transversely somewhat sexangular, anterior angles with a 

 transverse tooth, anterior lateral margins straight, smooth and narrowly 

 reflexed, shoulders a little prominent, rounded : scutellum triangular, 

 posteriorly narrowed : membrane with some somewhat parallel costae : 

 metastethium compressed : odoriferous aperture with a margined trans- 

 verse furrow, produced to a distance outwards, gradually evanescent : 

 abdomen beneath not sulcate, convex ; margins acute, unarmed : feet 

 simple : tibiae broadly sulcate externally ; first and third joints of tarsi 

 of equal length ( May 7^) . 



161. Halymorpha picus, Fabricius. 



Cimex picus, Fabr., Ent. Syst. iv, p. 115 (1794). India. 



Cimex marmoreus, Fabr., Ent. Syst. Suppt. p. 534 (1798). India. 



Cimex cinnamomeus, Wolff, Ic. Cim. iii, p. 99, f. 93 (1802). India. 



Edessa picus, Fabr., Syst. Rbyng., p. 153 (1803). 



Edessa marmorea, Fabr., Syst. Rhyng., p. 153 (1803). 



Halys timorensis, Westwood, Hope, Cat. Hem. i, p. 22 (1837) : Signoret, Bull. 

 S. E. F. (6 s.) i, p. xli (1881). China, Timor. 



Pentatoma timorensis, Dallas, List Hem. i, p. 242 (1852): Walker, Cat. Het. ii, 

 p. 299 (1867). Ceylon. 



Pentatoma halys, Stal, Ofvers. K. V.-A. Forh., p. 182 (1855) ; 1. c, p. 59 (1856): 

 Walker, 1. c. ii, p. 300 (1867). China. 



Pentatoma trivialis, A. Dohrn, Stettin Ent. Zeit. xxi, p. 400 (1860) : Walker, 

 1. c, p. 300 (1867). Ceylon. 



Pcecilometis mistus, Uhler, Proc. Ac. Phil., p. 223 (1860). Japan. 



Halyomorpha timorensis, Mayr, Reise Nov. Hem., p. 50 (1866). Hong Kong, 

 Shanghai. 



Dalpada remota. Walker, 1. c. i, p. 227 (1867), sec. Distant, Ent. M. M., xvi, 

 p. 201 (1880). Hong Kong. 



Halyomorpha picus, Stal, Hem. Fabr. i, p. 24 (1868) ; En. Hem. v, p. 75 (1876) ; 

 Scott. A. M. N. H. (4 8.) xiv, p. 290 (1874) ; Distant, 1. c. (5 s.), iii, p. 45 (1879) ; 

 Trans. Ent. Soc, p. 415 (1883). 



Antennae black ; third joint with a white ring at the base : head, 



