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yellow spots on the margin of a conical shape or it may be said that the 

 venter is yellow with a broad black discal patch emitting rays towards 

 the margin. Stal suggests that Vollenhoven's figure (1. c.) t. 4, f. 8 

 should be referred to this species : the yellow rays from the venter vary 

 much in length and he has never seen specimens in which the small 

 discoidal spots on the pronotum and the basal spots on the scutellum are 

 wanting. 



Reported from Philippines, Celebes, Sumatra, Amboina, Ternate, 

 India (?). 



7. BiucHTPLATTS siLPHOiDES, Fabricius. 



Cimex silphoides, Fabr., Ent. Syst. iv, p. 86 (1794). ^ 



Tetyra silphoides, Fabr., Syst. Rhyng. p. 141 (1803) : Schiodte in Kroyer's Nat, 



Tids. iv, p. 301 (1842), excl. syn. Burmeister. 



Brachyplatys silphoides, Dallas, List Hem. i, p. 71 (1851), excl. syn. pt : "Walker, 



Cat. Het. i, p. 100 (1867) : Stal, Hem. Fabr. i, p. 5 (1868) ; En. Hem. v, p. 8, 1876). 



Body entirely glabrous, brassy-black, immaculate : margin of ab- 

 domen broadly white with a row of black dots : wings lineated : feet 

 yellow (Fabr.) 



^ , 2 . Aenescent-black, very distinctly and rather densely punc- 

 tured, head somewhat rugose, four small spots on head, lateral sub- 

 marginal line and line obliquely drawn from lateral angles towards the 

 interior part of the eyes and here confluent with the intramarginal line, 

 also two small spots placed before the middle and very distant from each 

 other, elevated margin of scutellum and intramarginal line, also four 

 basal spots, yellow-testaceous : ventral limbus emitting on each seg- 

 ment two somewhat short flavescent rays of which the anterior is marked 

 by a small black spot : feet flavescent (Stal). Long 6 — 8 ; broad, 5 — 6 

 mill. 



Reported from India, Panjab, Ceylon, China. Westermann records 

 its occurrence on rice (Serampore ?). 



8. Brachyplatys sub^neus, Westwood. 



Plataspis subcenea, Westw., in Hope Cat. Hem. i. p. 17 (1837). 



Thyreocoris septus, Germar, Zeitschr, i (i) p. 32 (1839). 



Brachyplatys suboinea, Dallas, List Hem. i, p. 70 (1851) : Vollenhoven, Fanne 

 Ent. I'Arch. Ind. Neerl. i, p. 54 (1863), excl. t. 4, f . 8 : Walker. Cat. Het. i, p, 100 

 (1867) : Stal, En. Hem. v, p. 8 (1876). 



Brassy : head with a broad submarginal line and four dots on the 

 rbombus (between the eyes), anterior and lateral margins of thorax and 

 an angulated sublateral line and margin of scutellum, fulvous : feet pale- 



