1888.] E. T. Atliiuson— Notes on Indian Rtyncliota. 163 



three last joints of the antennae, black at the apex {Westiv.). Body, 

 long, 9-10 mill. 



Reported from Bengal. 



282. Pentatoma lateralis, Walker (nee, Westw.), Cat. Het. ii, p. 301 (1867). 

 Tawny, oval, thickly and minutely punctured, pale yellowish 



beneath ; punctures brown : head large ; juga and tylus of equal length : 

 rostrum extending to the hind coxse ; tip black : antennae testaceous, 

 a little less than half the length of the body ; first joint not extending 

 to the front of the head ; second blackish at the tip, much longer than 

 the third ; 3 — 5 joints pale yellowish, black towards the tips ; fourth 

 much longer than the third ; fifth longer than the fourth : pronotum 

 with pale yellowish slightly reflexed sides ; posterior angles slightly 

 acute and prominent : scutellum attenuated towards the tip, not extend- 

 ing beyond the angle of the corium ; tip bordered by a pale yellowish 

 line which is dilated at each end : pectus and abdomen beneath thinly 

 black speckled : abdomen above ochraceous ; beneath with an irregular 

 black stripe, which does not extend to the tip : legs slender, pale 

 yellowish ; femora and tibiee black speckled ; tibiee furrowed : hemelytra 

 greenish testaceous, reddish testaceous along the costa ; membrane pale 

 cinereous, with nine pale longitudinal veins, of which the fifth is forked 

 near its tip and united with the sixth near the base ; wings pellucid 

 (^Walker). Long, 11 J mill. 



Reported from India, Siam : resembles Halyomorpha picus, Fabr., 

 in structure ; the eyes and the angles of the pronotum being less 

 prominent. 



283. Pentatoma vicaria, Walker, Cat. Het. ii, p. 303 (1867). 

 Grass-green, elongate-oval, thickly and minutely punctured, indis- 

 tinctly tinged here and there with red, pale yellowish green beneath : 

 head yellow, elongate ; hind part green ; juga and tylus of equal length : 

 rostrum extending to the last coxae ; tip black : antennae greenish, less 

 than half the length of the body ; joints successively increasing in 

 length ; first not extending to the front of the head : pronotum with a 

 broad yellow band along the fore border, the hind border of this band 

 dentate ; hind angles obtuse, not prominent : scutellum extending a 

 little beyond the angle of the corium, attenuated towards the tip, with 

 three yellow points at the base : abdomen beneath slightly ridged : legs 

 slender: membrane pellucid (Walker). Body, long, 13| mill. 



Reported from India. 



284. Pentatoma inconcisa, Walker, Cat. Het. ii, p. 301 (1867). 



Tawny, elongate- oval, roughly punctured, beneath testaceous, punc- 

 tures black : head elongate, tylus and juga of equal length, the former 



