Ad E, T. Atkinson—Notes on Indian Rhynchota. [No. 1, 
truncated or slightly sinuated at the base, scutellum short never more 
than twice as long as the thorax ; tegmina very ample, very often con- 
vexish, not or but little extending beyond the abdomen (Stal). 
Genus Hemispparivs, Schaum. 
Allg. Enc. Wissensch. Kunst. i, p. 61, (1850): Stal, Hem. Afric. ivy, p. 203 
(1866). 
Last joint of rostrum longer than stout, oval, oblong or elongate : 
tegmina entirely convex, very obsoletely veined or without veins, clavus 
and corium connate, no claval suture: body depressed ; vertex narrower 
than the eyes or subequal in breadth; thorax truncated at the base, 
sinuated behind the eyes, sides behind the eyes hardly visible from above ; 
last tibie bispinose: anterior femora simple (Stal). This beautiful 
genus has the entire tegmina quite coriaceous like those of the lady-bird 
beetles. 
57. HEMISPHERIUS RUFOVARIUS, Walker. 
Hemispherius rufovarius, Walker, List Hom. B. M. Suppt. p. 95 (1858) ; Butler, 
A.M. N. H. (5 sév.) xvi, p. 96 (1875). 
Testaceous: vertex transverse with a red mark on the disc, frons 
and face flat; frons with a red disc, face black, lanceolate: pronotum 
with three minute red marks: mesonotum with a red stripe on each 
side: abdomen with a black band beneath: tegmina rather narrower and 
more oblong than in the other species of the genus (Walker). Body 
long, 33; teg., 8g millims. 
Reported from Burma. 
Genus Fravina, Stal. 
Ofvers. K. V.-A. Férh. xviii, p. 209 (1861) ; Hem. Afrio. iv, p. 206 (1866). 
Wings cleft, fairly ample, irregularly reticulated; head distinctly 
narrower than the thorax, vertex subquadrate ; frons slightly rounded a 
little above the clypeus on both sides, longer than broad ; clypeus ecari- 
nate ; thorax truncated at the base, angulated anteriorly behind the 
vertex ; scutellum somewhat longer than the thorax, tegmina extending 
somewhat beyond the abdomen, the costa and the commissure subparallel, 
gradually roundly-narrowed at the apex; the principal exterior vein 
near the base, the median vein towards the apex and interior vein before 
the middle, forked, the two last united before the middle by a more 
distinct transverse veinlet, the interior branch of the fork of that vein 
also forked: last tibie: 5-spinose (Sidl). 
