] E. T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian Rhynchota. 43 



$ Black-fuscous : head, thorax, scutellum, rostrum, and tarsi testa- 

 ceous-whitish, frons and scutellum infuscate : 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, 5^; exp. teg., 16J millims. 

 Reported from India. 



Genus Corethrura, Hope. 



Trans. Linn. Soo. xix, p. 135 (1845) ; Stal, Hem. Afrio. 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 : antennae 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 tibiae, last tibiae externally tridentate (Hope) . 



56. CORETHRURA FUSCOVARIA, Hope. 



Gorethrura fusco-varia, Hope, Trans. Linn. Soo. xix, p. 135, t. 12, f. 60 (1845) ; 

 Walker, List Horn. B. M. ii, p. 395 (1851). 



Body above somewhat fuscous ; head with a 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. Issina, Stal. 



Issida, Stftl, Hem. Afrio. iv, pp. 130, 202 : Issina, Of vers. K. V.-A. Forh. 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 snbcorneous, 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 Bicaniina in the thorax being 



