1885. | K. T. Atkinson—WNotes on Indian Rhynchota. 59 
lous: ocelli twice as distant from each other as from the eyes: 
thorax moderately convex, unarmed on both sides anteriorly, gra- 
dually narrowed behind the slightly prominulous lateral angles and 
gradually passing into the posterior process; the posterior process 
entire on both sides at the base, not sinuated, gradually acuminated, 
straight, slightly deflexed at the apex, equalling the apex of clavus, 
somewhat highly ridged, much depressed in the middle. No complete 
scutellum: mesonotum furnished on both sides at the apex with a spinule 
turning backwards. Tegmina short, not extending beyond the apex of 
the abdomen, gradually somewhat amplified towards the apex which is 
obliquely rounded, opaque and coriaceous at the base ; exterior vein of 
clavus united with the commissure at some distance beyond the middle ; 
corium emitting the ulnar and radial veins from the base, ulnar vein 
somewhat forked before the middle of the corium, two discoidal areolas 
or, if the areola behind the fork of the ulnar vein be included, three; 
the exterior discoidal areola stylated, stylus separating the interior 
(or intermediate) discoidal areola from the first apical area, five apical 
areas. Wings with three apical areolas. Feet moderate, tibise prisma- 
tic, anterior a little depressed : anterior trochanters unarmed within. 
A curious genus allied to Gargara, Stal; but very distinct in having 
the thorax behind the lateral angles gradually passing into the posterior 
process which has no sinus at the base; there is no produced complete 
scutellum, but the mesonotum is armed at the apex with two very distant 
spines (Stal). , 
22. CoccostERPHUS MINUTUS, Fabricius. 
Membracis minuta, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. Suppt. p. 514 (1798). 
Centrotus minutus, Fabricius, Syst. Rhyng. p. 22 (1803). 
Scaphula (?) minuta, Fairmaire, A. 8. EF. (2 sér.) iv. p. 495 (1846) ; Walker, 
List Hom. B. M ii. p. 589 (1851). 
Coccosterphus minutus, Stal, Hem. Fabr. ii. p. 51 (1869). 
Minute : head and thorax black, scabrous with elevated dots: tho- 
rax subunarmed, produced posteriorly, attenuated, a little elevated before 
the apex, as long as the abdomen : tegmina obscurely whitish, somewhat 
spotted fuscous, black at the base ; wings shorter, hyaline: body black 
(Fabr.). Black, flavescent-greyish-sericeous: head, thorax and tegmina 
remotely sprinkled with somewhat large granules : thorax furnished: with 
a ridge or keel, obsolete anteriorly, very elevated in the posterior pro- 
cess, in its medium depressed part interrupted: tegmina palely greyish- 
flavescent, subpellucid, obsoletely dotted with white, veins here and there 
infuscate, granules and almost third basal part, black ; black part punc- 
tured ; ulnar vein running through this part greyish-flavescent (Stal). 
3. Body long 3;: broad 2 millims. 
Reported from HE. India, Tranquebar, 
