1885. ] E. T. Atkinson—WNotes on Indian Rhynchota. 115 
Head and thorax ferruginous, flat, very thickly and minutely punc- 
tured, covered with tawny down: head short, indistinctly striped with 
brown, sinuate along the hind border, more rounded in front, its length 
not more than one-fourth of its breadth ; face piceous, roughly punctur- 
ed, with ten slight oblique ridges on each side of the disc which is flat; 
two yellow stripes along the sides unite near the front and form a cone 
and are produced along the pectus: the clypeus shining, convex, fer- 
ruginous, with an oblique furrow on each side ; rostrum ferruginous, 
tip piceous ; pectus with a broad black band between the anterior and 
intermediate legs: abdomen ferruginous, testaceous at the base: legs 
testaceous : tegmina ferruginous, conical towards the tips which are 
almost pointed, nearly colourless for half the breadth beneath the fore- 
border from the middle to the tips; some forked brown streaks in the 
disc, a few of them communicating with an irregular curved brown stripe 
which extends from three-fifths of the length of the fore-border to the 
tip and is darkest at each end: wings colourless ; veins black, tawny at 
the base (Walker). Body long, 67; teg. 163 millims. 
Reported from India, Java. 
69. CroviaA puNcTUM, Walker. 
Ptyelus punctum, Walker, List Hom. B. M. iii. p. 718 (1851) ; Stal. Ofvers. K. 
V.-A. Férh. p. 493 (1862): J. A. 8. B. liv. (2), p. 19 (1885). 
Ptyelus bipunctipennis, Stal, 1. c. p. 250 (1854): Java. 
Pale tawny, covered with pale down: head and thorax almost flat : 
head very convex in front, with two furrows which diverge from the 
fore border and communicate with two more oblique impressions near 
the hind border ; face very convex, with a blackish disc, which has 
about eight oblique ridges on each side; disc of the breast, blackish : 
tegmina with a dark brown dot on the hind border near the tip ; wings 
colourless ; veins pale stramineous (Walker). Body long, 5: teg. 114 
millims. 
Reported from N. Bengal, Java. 
70. PryeLus sexvirtatus, Walker. 
Ptyelus sexvittatus, Walker, List Hom. B. M. iii. p. 715 (1851); J. A. S. B. liv. 
(2), p. 19 (1885). 
Yellow, shining : head and chest flat, minutely punctured, adorned 
with six black stripes : head concave along the hind border, almost coni- 
cal in front ; its length less than half its breadth; face very convex 
with indistinct ridges on each side, black towards the clypeus which is 
also black : dise of the pectus mostly black: abdomen picecus : a short 
dorsal stripe, hind borders of the segments, and oviduct, tawny : legs 
