24 E. T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian Rhynchota. [No. 1, 



pronotum, sciitollum, hemelytra greyish or yellow, irrorated with very 

 numerous black dots : beneath flavescent, a lateral line on the pectus, 

 brassy black : femora yellow, punctured black ; tibiae black with a broad 

 white ring at the base (C.^ici*^, Fabr.). Body above grey : pronotum 

 anteriorly with two minute yellow dots, posteriorly fuscous : scutellum 

 with two distinct, minute dots at the base : beneath flavescent, a median 

 line and the margins fuscous, and on each abdominal segment on both 

 sides, a small black dot : feet flavescent, punctured fuscous {G. marmo- 

 reus, Fabr.). Luteous-grey, punctured brassy-black, somewhat varie- 

 gated : head and pronotum with the sides entire, the latter with four 

 minute luteous dots placed transversely : membrane pale, with six 

 fuscous longitudinal veins, interrupted in the middle : margin of abdo- 

 men punctured black and luteous (-H". timorensis, Westw.). Long, 15 — 16 

 mill. 



Reported from Timor, China, Japan, Ceylon, Assam, India. A 

 variable and not a very uncommon species in Sikkim and Assam (mihi) . 



162. Halyomorpha scutellata, Distant. 

 Halyomorpha scutellata, Distant, A. M. N. H. (5 s.) iii, p. 51 (1879). 



Brunneous, thickly and strongly punctured : head with frontal and 

 lateral margins black ; eyes pitchy ; ocelli brown, shining : rostrum 

 black, reaching posterior coxee : antennae black ; second joint much 

 shorter than the third, fourth joint rather longer than the fifth, both of 

 which are pilose : pronotum with the lateral margins narrowly reflexed, 

 bordered with black, with the extreme edge sanguineous for about two 

 thirds of the length from the apex ; base rugulose, a somewhat tri- 

 angular space enclosed by pale impunctate lines situated on each side 

 of the frontal border behind the eyes ; lateral angles prominent : scutel- 

 lum bright luteous with two dots at the base, two small parallel lines 

 on the disc, and the lateral margin, very narrowly at the base and 

 broadly towards the apex, brunneous ; the luteous area has a few deep 

 brown punctures, the other brunneous portion of the scutellum punc- 

 tured as on other parts of the upper surface : membrane fuscous, with 

 strong longitudinal veins : abdomen above sanguineous, with a marginal 

 row of blueish-black spots, situated conjointly in pairs at the base and 

 the apex of each segment, both above and below : underside of body 

 s/mpnineous ; prostethium with some greenish markings behind the 

 eyes, a large dull blackish patch near the odoriferous apertures, a 

 stigmatal row of rounded blueish-black spots and a large pitchy spot 

 near the apex : legs black ; cox^ sanguineous, bases of femora dull 

 reddish (Distant). Long, 16; breadth ang. pronot. 9 mill. 



