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lateral margins of scutellum, black ; apical areas of corium and 

 scutellum tinged with pale castaneous ; membrane pale, smoky, 

 hyaline ; pronotum with five prominent, levigate, pale ochraceons 

 spots — the central one transverse and longest — in curved series on 

 anterior disk ; body beneath and legs ochraceous ; head beneath, 

 rostrum, lateral areas of sternum, and anterior tibiae excluding base, 

 black; apices of intermediate and posterior tibiae obscurely 

 castaneous. 



Head and pronotum finely transversely wrinkled and punctate, 

 corium and scutellum thickly and finely punctate ; antennae with 

 the fourth and fifth joints incrassated, fourth shorter than fifth, third 

 shorter than second ; rostrum just passing the intermediate coxae. 



Long. 6 millim. Exp. pronot. angl. 4 millim. 



Hab. Borneo, Muching (Shelford). 

 The pronotal levigate spots are a distinguishing feature 

 of this species. 



Subfamily TESSABATOMIN^E. 

 Pygoplatys Shelf ordi, sp. n. 



Reddish-ochraceous \ antennae, and the posterior margins of lateral 

 pronotal spines, black ; basal margins of odoriferous apertures piceous ; 

 basal joint of antennae reddish-ochraceous ; membrane ochraceous. 

 Antennae with the second joint much longer than the third — 

 remainder mutilated ; head sparingly punctate and obscurely trans- 

 versely wrinkled • pronotum somewhat sparingly but coarsely 

 punctate, two small transverse almost impunctate spaces on anterior 

 area, lateral angles prominently spinous, acutely and moderately 

 anteriorly produced, their anterior margins very thickly and coarsely 

 punctate ; scutellum finely punctate, about apical half much nar- 

 rowed, deeply centrally sulcate, the extreme apex piceous ; corium 

 thickly and finely punctate ; connexivum coarsely and darkly punc- 

 tate, sternal process just passing anterior coxae ; abdomen prominently 

 centrally ridged ; lateral margins of the posterior abdominal segment 

 and posterior margin of the anal appendage, narrowly black. 



Long. 25 millim. Exp. pronot. angl. 17 millim. 



Hab. Borneo, Baram (Shelford). 



Family PYRRHOCORIDiE. 



Largus umbrosus, sp. n. 



Dull opaque ochraceous ; head, antennae, and legs, piceous ; pro- 

 notum with scattered dark coarse punctures, anterior area somewhat 

 castaneous, an oblique spot at each anterior angle and the posterior 



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