PENTATQMIDiE. 
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Pentatomince .—An extensive sub-family, with a distinctive facies 
and usually recognisable, but whose divisions are complex and should 
be studied with care in Distant’s volume. This includes the largest 
number of common species, of which we can mention only a few. 
Erthesina fullo , Thunb. (Plate LXXII, fig. 12), and Halys dentatus, 
Fabr. (Plate LXXIII, fig. 4), are two large dull coloured species with 
rather elongated head, the former with flattened tibiae. They are 
commonly found upon the bark of trees and there is some reason to 
believe they are predaceous habitually or occasionally. 
Dolycoris indicus, Stal. (Plate LXXIII, fig. 10), appears to be the 
most universal of the Pentatomids in the cultivated plains. It is found, 
with Agonoscelis nubila , commonly upon crops, especially jute, lucerne, 
maize, juar and similar green crops, while it ocasionally attacks ripening 
heads of juar and other millets. It is plant-feeding, but no instance of 
serious destruction caused by it has yet been recorded. 
Eusarcocoris includes small bugs of rounded form, similar to Cop- 
tosoma with the scutellum rather large and prominent. These are found 
upon plants (Plate LXXIII, fig. 5). E. guttiger , Thunb., and E. ven- 
tralis , Westw., are the common plains species. 
Plautia fimbriata, Fabr. (Plate LXXIII, fig. 8), is a green species, 
the hemelytra deep reddish, found on plants in the hills and plains 
and widely distributed. Antestia , 
Eurydema, Stenogyzum , Bagrada 
and Strachia include brightly 
coloured insects of a similar 
facies, marked in red or yellow 
upon black (Plate LXXIII, figs. 
11, 12, Plate LXXIV, fig. 1). 
A. anchor a, Thunb., and A. 
cruciata , Fabr., are hill species, 
the latter destructive to coffee 
berries and reported as des¬ 
tructive to garden plants and 
fruit. E. pulchrum, Westw., 
though mainly a hill form, is 
certainly found in Behar and may 
extend further. It feeds upon 
Fig. 439— Bagrada piota. 
