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E. T. Atkinson—Notes on Indian Rhynchota. [No. 1, 
Subfamily Macu#rorina, Stal. 
Macherotida, Stal, Hem. Afric. iv. p, 55 (1866): Macherotina, Stal, Ofvers. 
Kong. Vet. Aka. Férh. p. 727 (1870). 
Anterior margin of thorax round or angular, eyes usually transverse : 
scutellum much elevated, compressed posteriorly, furnished with a long 
apical spine. 
Genus Macnmrora, Burmeister. 
Handb. Ent. ii. (i) p. 128 (1835). 
Head small, frons tumid, confluent with the vertex, furrowed in the 
middle, elevated at the posterior margin, bearing the two ocelli which are 
approximate: basal joints of antenne large, terminal sete long, fine, 
curved: pronotum septangular, arcuate: scutellum larger, produced 
backwards with a median longitudinal groove which is continued into 
a long, pointed, acute upwardly, curved downwardly, sabre-like process : 
tegmina hyaline, with seven cells at the apex and a large middle cell 
surrounded by a forked vein: legs simple, hinder tibie and two first 
joints of the tarsi with a circlet of spinules. 
47. MaAcuH@ROTA ENSIFERA, Burmeister. 
Macherota ensifera, Burm. Handb. ii. i. p. 128 (1835) : Walker, List Hom. B. M. 
iii, p. 729 (1851) : Stal, Ofvers. Kong. Vet. Aka. Férh. p. 727 (1870): Signoret, A. 
S. E. F. (5 Sér.), ix, p. xlviii. (1879). 
Light yellow with the second and third segments above, the median 
part of the frons, a space on each side of the metanotum and the origin 
of the process, black: tegmina and wings hyaline, the base of the 
tegmina and the claval portion of the wings, fuscous: tegmina with 
five apical cells of which three lie towards the margin; above these, 
which gradually diminish in size, is a row of hyaline dots, on the margin 
itself: there are five brownish streaks on the prothorax of which the two 
median lateral ones are continued on the metanotum. Long 4 millims. &. 
Reported from Philippines, Silhat. 
48. MACHMROTA SPANGBERGI, Signoret. 
Macherota spangbergi, Signoret, A. S. E. F. (5 Sér.), ix, p. xlviii. (1879). 
Yellowish brown; the median part of the frons, the tip of the ab- 
domen above and the genital organs, black; feet brownish, posterior 
tibiee yellow with the tips black. Differs from M. ensifera in having the 
frontal grooves black and the tegmina longer and less rounded at the 
tip. Long 4 millims. ¢. 
Reported from Silhat. 
