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with that on the acutellum : margins pale chestnut-brown, with the 

 edcces and a band on each of the sutures black ; abdomen beneath pale 

 chestnut-brown, minutely granulated, with a blackish brassy band down 

 each side within the line of stigmata : stigmata black ; apical and lateral 

 vulvar plates edged with black (DaZZas). ?, long, 19-20; <?, 16-17 

 mill. 



Reported from Silhat. The Indian Museum has specimens from 

 Assam. 



Add: — Sagriva vittata, Spin., Gen. Ins. Art., p. 117 (1852). 



Subfam. Phyllocephalina, Stal. 



cifvera. K. V.-A. Foi-h., p. 643 (1870) ; I. c. (3), p. 32 (1872) : En. Hem., v, p. 



117 {1»76) ■.—PhyllocephaUdce., Dallas, List Hem., i, p. 350 (1851) :—Phyllocephalida, 

 Stal, Hem. Afrio., i, p. 32, 231 (1864,). 



(a) As in Subfam. Pentatomina (Jl. Pt. II, p. 192, 1887). 



(6) — Rostrum short, not extended behind the first coxse, two basal 

 joints very short, entirely, or for the greatest part, hidden between the 

 bucoulaa : head usually f oliaceous or elongated and triangular, with the 

 juga produced to a distance before the tylus, and usually contiguous : 

 spiracula of the basal ventral segment hidden by the posterior part of 

 the metastethium : tarsi 3-jointed : antennse 5-jointed. 



Genus Ceessona, Dallas. 

 List Hem., i, p. 358 (1851) : 'Walker, Oafc. Het., iii, p. 494 (1868) : Stal, Hem. 

 Afrio., i, p. 234 (1864) ; En. Hem., v, p. 117, 118 (1876;. 



Body oblong, ovate : head small, gradually narrowed anteriorly, 

 rounded at the apex, sides less strongly dilated ; juga contiguous at the 

 apex, not much longer than the tylus ; entire antenniforous tubercles 

 prominulous beyond the sides of the head : eyes moderate ; ocelli dis- 

 tant, placed very close to the eyes : antennjB 5-jointed, about as long as 

 he head and pronotum, rather stout, basal joint short and stout, passing 

 the apex of the head, remainder nearly equal in length : rostrum 4- 

 jointed, passing the anterior coxee, rather stout, basal joint very short, 

 entirely concealed within the deep groove on the underside of the head, 

 third joint longest, fourth a little longer than the second : furrow of the 

 oi'ifices long: pronotum with the lateral angles produced into long, stout, 

 straight horns which project forwards beyond the apes of the head and 

 are somewhat compressed towards the apex which is notched ; lateral 

 margins of the pronotum strongly dentate, the dentioulations continued 

 along the under surface of the lateral horns and terminating a little be- 

 fore the apex of these in a large flat tooth : soutellum of the usual form 



