58 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



"Eine sehr schone, durch deutlicb ausgesprachte Zeicbnung 

 auffallende Abart von Athalia : von Viertlau, Mebadia : etwas 

 grosser als die gewobnliche Athalia ; die in der Mitte der Ober- 

 fliigel iiber den ganzen Fliigel sicb ziehende scbwarze Binde ist 

 breiter als bei der Stammart, und endet am Innenrand in einen 

 langlicb viereckigen Fleck, der bei der Stammart gewobnlicli 

 nur durcbbrochen erscheint. Auch auf der Unterseite ist 

 die Binde weit deutlicber markirt als bei der gewobnlichen 

 Athalia.'" 



Here again tbe breadtb of tbe elbowed line and the large 

 oblong marginal blotch are tbe special characteristics. It ap- 

 pears to be rather a variety than an aberration, and so far as 

 the upper side is concerned it is, apart from size, the usual form 

 at Faido, in the Leventina, and indeed, in a more or less modi- 

 fied condition, the only form I have seen from that locality. 



(To be continued.) 



OEIENTAL CAPSID^. 



By W. L. Distant. 



Mr. E. I. PococK, who is working out the mimetic relation- 

 ship between various insects and spiders included in a collection 

 from tbe Nilgiri Hills, has asked me to identify the following 

 Kbynchota, in order that he may be able to refer to them in his 

 paper shortly to be published in the ' Transactions ' of the Lin- 

 nean Society of London. All tbe species belong to the Capsidse, 

 are apparently undescribed, and will be figured in the Appendix 

 to my Khynchotal portion of the Faun. Brit. India. 



Rhodoclia, gen. nov. 

 Head broad and convex, a little more anteriorly produced in male 

 than in female, the postocular longer than the anteocular area, 

 strongly constricted at base, slightly longitudinally incised on centre 

 of disk, the apex subangularly produced in front of the insertion of 

 the antennae, eyes of moderate size and rounded ; antennae long, 

 longer than the body, first joint longer than either the second or 

 third which are subequal in length, fourth longest, moderately thick- 

 ened and a little curved ; rostrum passing the intermediate coxae, 

 first joint thickened and about reaching eyes, second longest ; pro- 

 notum short, armed with a long horizontal or slightly backwardly 

 directed slender spine on each side ; hemelytra more or less rudi- 

 mentary, more developed in the male than in the female ; abdomen 



is broader than in the type, and ends on the inner margin in a longish four- 

 cornered spot, which in the type generally appears broken up. On the 

 under side also the band is far more strongly marked than in ordinary 

 athalia. 



