IX.—Description of a Species of Hetero- 
ptera from Mt. Kinabalu, British North 
Borneo. —By W. L. Distant. 
Fam. Pentatomim. 
Subfam. Tessaratomin^. 
Dalcantha angular is, Bredd. Wien. Ent. Zeit. xxiii. p. 17 
(1904). 
Head, pronotum, and scutellum very dark, dull, oliva¬ 
ceous-green, posterior area of pronotum dull purplish- 
brown ; eyes and lateral margins of head behind them, 
and apex of scutellum, ochraceous ; corium dull purplish- 
brown, base of lateral margin ochraceous, the clavus dark, 
dull, olivaceous-green ; membrane bronzy-brown; con- 
nexivum olivaceous-green, outwardly and inwardly spotted 
with ochraceous; body beneath and legs ochraceous, 
prosternal margins and an oblique line near base, anterior 
margins of coxae, a central longitudinal fascia to abdomen, 
spiracles, and an almost continuous narrow lateral abdomi¬ 
nal margin dark olivaceous-green ; antennae with the basal 
and apical joints ochraceous; second, third, and base of 
fourth joint olivaceous-green ; basal joint stout, passing 
apex of head, second and third longest, subequal in length, 
each a little longer than fourth; head with the lateral 
lobes a little longer than the central lobe, their apices 
broadly, obliquely truncate, their lateral margins concave, 
the whole finely granulate, eyes a little upwardly recurved ; 
pronotum with the anterior area finely granulose, the pos¬ 
terior area transversely strigose, the anterior angles broad, 
their anterior margins sinuate, the apices acute; scutellum 
transversely strigose ; corium obscurely finely granulose 
and palely pilose; tegmina with the veins prominent and 
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