48 E. T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian Rhynchota. [No. 1, 



and loses itself towards the middle of tlie frons ; the two interior facettes 

 rise a little higher than the median but without converging above it ; 

 they bend outwards and end in an acute and prominent point above the 

 eyes. The vertex is broader than long, concave, margins gently raised, 

 anterior bisinuate, posterior weakly emarginate. Median lobe of prono- 

 tum broad, rounded. Long, 10 ; exp. teg., 23 millims, 

 Reported from Bengal. 



63. ISSUS (?) TESTUDINARIUS, Stal. 

 Issus testudinarius, Stal, Ofvers. K. V.-A. Forh., p. 246 (1854). 



Obscurely ferruginous : frons with a longitudinal ridge in the middle 

 and a transverse one at the base : tegmina coriaceous, longitudinal veina 

 elevated : beneath and feet yellow-testaceous : entire anterior femora 

 and last pair at the apex, fuscescent : abdomen, fuscous in the middle 

 {Stal). Long, 8; broad, 6 millims. 



Reported from Penang. 



Genus Ctrene, Westwood. 

 Arc. Ent. ii, p. 35 (1843). 



Body short, stout, abdomen compressed : head with frons conical, 

 long, porrect, acute at the apex, carinate above at the sides, ridges ob- 

 literated before the apex, posteriorly extended to the pronotum : eyes 

 large, lateral, emarginate beneath : no ocelli : antennae small, inserted 

 below the eyes : pronotum as long as the mesonotum, disc impressed in 

 the middle with two points : tegmina coriaceous, opaque, homogeneous, 

 convex, broad ; anterior margin sinuate, rounded at the apex, posterior 

 angle, acute ; veins little branched : feet short, robust, last tibiae 

 curved, armed inwards towards the apex with three spines : abdomen 

 truncated at the apex, ending in two lobes, furnished with a slender, 

 erect appendage, concave at the apex ( Westwood) . The entire surface of 

 the tegmina is covered with an immense number of minute, circular, 

 elevated areas, visible only under the lens and which give it a shagreened 

 appearance : when at rest the tegmina are carried almost perpendi- 

 cularly. 



64. Ctrene fusiformis. Walker. 



Cyrene fusiformis, "Walker, List Horn. B. M. Suppt. p. 47 (1858). 

 Chalepus aconojphoroides, Walker, 1. c. p. 192 (1858). 



3* , 2 • Testaceous : head produced in a lanceolate horn which is 

 straight, hardly ascending, a little longer than the thorax and has three 

 slight ridges above and beneath : tegmina very convex in front, straight 



