1886.] E. T. Atkinson—Notes on Indian Rhynchota. 43 
$ Black-fuscous: head, thorax, scutellum, rostrum, and tarsi testa- 
ceous-whitish, frons and scutellum infusceate : tegmina and wings vitre- 
ous ; three bands on the tegmina, the posterior two oppositely oblique 
and united at the commissure, confluent spots on the apex, small trans- 
verse lines on the costal limbus and dots sprinkled over the disc, black- 
fuscous ; wings internally and at the apex broadly fuscescent; feet 
sparingly sprinkled pallid (Stal). Body long, 53; exp. teg., 165 millims. 
Reported from India. 
Genus Cornturura, Hope. 
Trans. Linn. Soc. xix, p. 135 (1845) ; Stal, Hem. Afric. iv, p. 200 (1866). 
Body short, stout: the apex of the abdomen furnished with a very 
large and well-marked floccose appendage: head carinate in front: face 
seen in front narrow: rostrum of median length: clypeus large, in- 
flated : antenns inserted beneath the eyes, very short, setose to some 
length at the apex: ocelli minute placed a little before the eyes: first 
pair of feet with depressed tibia, last tibie externally tridentate (Hope). 
56. CornTHRurA Fuscovaria, Hope. 
Corethrura fusco-varia, Hope, Trans. Linn. Soc. xix, p. 185, t. 12, f. 60 (1845) ; 
Walker, List Hom. B. M. ii, p. 395 (1851). 
Body above somewhat fuscous ; head witha whitish transverse line, 
three rows of white spots on the thorax: abdomen fuscous-green, extre- 
mity provided with a subochraceous cottony appendage longer than the 
entire body: tegmina varied with fuscous, having numerous interrupted 
bands of a more saturated colour and patches of a farinose powdery sub- 
stance: wings paler brownish, hyaline, immaculate (Hope). Body long, 
19 ; exp. teg., 58-59 millims. 
Reported from Silhat. . 
Subfam. Issrva, Stal. 
Issida, Stal, Hem. Afrio. iv, pp. 180, 202: Issina, Ofvers. K. V.-A. Foérh. p. 754 
(1870). 
Head not or only a little narrower than the thorax; clypeus very 
often convex, lateral margins very rarely furnished with a ridge ; thorax 
truncated at the base, rarely broadly roundly-sinuated, without a median 
ridge or only an obsolete one ; scutellum short, rarely twice longer than 
the thorax: tegmina coriaceous or subcorneous, rarely vitreous, very 
rarely flat, more or less convex, sometimes very much abbreviated : clavus 
and claval vein generally as in Achilina: first joint of last tarsi short, or 
moderate very rarely elongate. Differs from Ricaniina in the thorax being 
