170 

 HEMIPTERA FROM THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY 



BY 



Dr. E. BercxRoth, C. M. Z. S. 



The Hemiptera dealt with in this paper were collected and for- 

 warded to me for study several years ago by Mr. R. 0. Wroughton. 

 Two new genera and some of the new species contained in the col- 

 lection have been described by me in previous papers, and another 

 new genns and species was described by the late Prof. Renter. I 

 now give a list of all the Hemiptera found by Mr. Wroughton, 

 having marked with an asterisk the species that were nndescribed 

 when discovered by him. Only four of these species have as yet 

 been found ovitside the Bombay Presidency, though they all are 

 doubtless more widely spread. Bibliographical references are 

 appended only to the species not described in Distant's " Fauna of 

 British India : Rhynchota. " 



Suborder HETEROPTERA. 



Fam. ThyreocokidyE. 



1. Aethus indicics, Westw. 



2. Macroscytus foveola, Dall. 



*3. Macroscytus lonyirostris, n. sp. 



Subovatxis, convexiusculus, niger. Caput nonnihil transversum, rugosum, 

 a,pice distincte incisum, rostro piceo coxas posticas superante, articulis tribus 

 ultimis subseque longis, antennis piceis, articulis duobus xarimis sublinearibus 

 glabris, ceteris nonnihil incrassatis pallido-puberulis, articulo secundo primo 

 subbreviore, tertio secundo distincte longiore, quarto tertio et quinto quarto 

 paiillo longiore. Pronotum capite ti"iplo latius, tranaversim vix inipressum, 

 lateribus parce ferrugineo-ciliatum, parte antica disci apice et lateribus 

 modice dense punctata, ceteroquin IfBvi sed medio serie longitudinali puncto- 

 rum interrupta, parte postica disci parce punctata, basi Ifevi. Scutellum 

 remote punctatum. Hemelytra apicem abdominis nonnihil superantia, corio 

 sat parce punctulato, basin segmenti ultimi connexivi attingente, intra 

 marginem lateralem punctis piligeris duobus vel tribus instructum linea 

 impressa laercurrente prsedito, margine apicali late levissime sinuato, mem- 

 brana leviter infuscata. Abdomen subtus medio Iseve, lateribus irregu- 

 lariter punctulatum. Pedes piceo-nigri, tarsis dilutioribus. Long. $ 7'6 

 mm. 



The length of the rostrum would place this species in the genus Gamp- 

 sotes Sign., but the fades is so different from that genus, that it is much 

 better placed in Macroscytus, all other characters of which it has. 



4. Peltoxys brevipennis, Fabr. 



Parallelus, glaber, niger, et supra et subtus creberrime punctatus, capite 

 et parte apicali pronoti pilis paucis longis prseditis, ventre brevissime 

 pubescente, lituris nonnulis dimidii antici pronoti, area parva oblonga prope 

 angulos basales scutelli, vitta angusta intra marginem lateralem prosterni 

 hujusque margine basaJi Isevibus, rostro et tarsis testaceis. Caput subseque 

 longum ac latum, tylo latiuscvilo, j)ercurrent8, jugis extus ante oculos sub- 

 parallelis, deinde fortiter rotundatis, articulo primo antennarum apicem 

 capitis attingente, secundo brevissimo quam primo breviore, tertio secundo 

 saltem triplo longiore, apicem versus sensim incrassato, quarto tertio 



