4A E. T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian Rhyncliota. [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 (Stdl). 



Genus Hemisphjirius, Schaum. 



Allg. Eno. Wissensoh. Ktinst. i, p. 51, (1850) : Stal, Hem. Afric. iv, 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 tibiae bispinose : anterior femora simple (Stdl). This beautiful 

 genus has the entire tegmina quite coriaceous like those of the lady-bird 

 beetles. 



57. Hemisphjjrius rufovarius, Walker. 



Hemisphcerius rufovarius, Walker, List Horn. B. M. Suppt. p. 95 (1858) ; Butler, 

 A. M. N. H. (5 ser.) 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, SJ ; teg., 8| millims. 



Reported from Burma. 



Genus Flavina, Stil. 

 Of vera. K. V.-A. Forh. xyiii, 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 tibias 5-spinose (Stdl). 



