84, E. T. Atkinson—WNotes on Indian Rhynchota. [No. 2, 
somewhat prominent : horns above rather long, broad, irregularly pris- 
matic, slightly diverging and inclined forwards ; tips more diverging, 
almost trifurcate, shghtly amplified ; inner side and outer side much 
broader than the hinder side, angles slightly serrated ; of the three 
forks or angles at the tip, the fore one is slightly obtuse, the mid- 
dle one acute, and the hind one rectangular ; hind horn stout and 
vertical for ashort space from the base, then forming a right angle and 
extending backward much beyond the tip of the abdomen ; hind part 
tawny, slender, tapering, very slightly undulating, with an acute black 
tip: pectus and abdomen piceous : legs tawny : a brown spot on the hind 
angle of each tegmen: veins tawny, here and there, brown (Walker). 
Body long 44: exp. teg. 95 millims. 
Reported from N. India. 
Genus AcANTHOPHYES, Stal. 
Hem. Afric. iv. p. 87, 89 (1866) ; Ofvers. K. V.-A. p. 281 (1869). 
Thorax much elevated between the lateral angles, very often cornuted 
above the same angles ; posterior process distant from the scutellum, 
bisinuate beneath, more or less amplified or lobed in the middle, between 
the sinus, with the amplified part reaching the dorsum of the abdo- 
men or the apex of the scutellum : tegmina with five apical, two discoi- 
dal areas : wings with four apical areas : tibie simple (Stal). 
15. ACANTHOPHYES CAPRA, Fabricius. 
Membracis capra, Fabr., Ent. Syst. Suppt. p. 514 (1798). 
Centrotus capra, Fabr., Syst. Rhyng. p. 20 (1803). 
Acanthophyes capra, Stal, Hem. Fabr. ii. p. 50 (1869). 
Body altogether fuscous, immaculate : horns of thorax, large, thick, 
obtuse ; thorax posteriorly short, emarginate : tegmina fuscous (Fabr.). 
Ferruginous black or ferruginous, remotely flavescent-grey-sericeous, two 
small basal spots on scutellum and sides of pectus very densely sericeous : 
lateral horns of thorax depressed, truncated, bicarinate above. @ : long 
with tegmina 635 ; thorax broad, 3; exp. thoracic horns, 43 millims. 
Head between the eyes a little shorter than broad, beneath the eyes 
abruptly very much narrowed; frons gradually slightly narrowed, sub- 
truncate, freely produced downwards for a distance: thorax punctured, 
armed on both sides anteriorly above the lateral angles with a depressed 
horn, very slightly narrowed towards the apex, truncated at the apex, 
bicarinate above and below ; anterior apical angle of the horns round, 
posterior somewhat acute; posterior process distinctly carinate, very 
broadly sinuated in the middle above, a little amplified beneath in the 
middle, reaching the apex of the scutellum, very slightly decurved 
