1886.] E. T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian Rhynchota. 79 



S . Body ferruginous : vertex with, a large piceons spot on each 

 side ; frons and clypens, tawny ; mesonotnm piceons : abdomen a little 

 longer than the thorax, genitalia very long, upper one armed near the 

 base with two spines, curved downwards towards the tip which ap- 

 proaches the middle of the tip of the lower one, the latter is very deep, 

 especially at the tip where its depth is almost equal to its length : legs 

 tawny : tegmina ferruginous, moderately broad, with a few darker spots ; 

 discs of the areolas almost colourless ; veins brown ; costal margin 

 much dilated towards the base and along it a row of parallel transverse 

 veins : wings gray, paler towards the base. ? has the abdomen shorter 

 than the thorax, tip rounded and along it a groove with a transverse 

 ridge. Body long, 5^ ; teg., IGJ millims. 



Reported from Hong-Kong. 



Genus Flatoides, Guerin. 



Icon. Regne Animal, Texte, Ins., p. 362 (1838) : Stal, Hem. Afrio. iv, pp. 237, 

 248 (1866) : includes Phalcenomorpha, Am. & Serv. Hist. Nat. Ins. Hem., p. 525 

 (1843) ; Stal, Berlin Ent. Zeitschr. vi, p. 312 (1862). 



Body oblong, depressed, head produced before the eyes ; vertex flat, 

 sides parallel, confused anteriorly with the produced base of the frons 

 which is not ridged : rostrum rather long, antennae short : thorax elevated 

 and flat on the disc, broadly sinuate at the base, sides flattened : tegmina 

 ample, suboblong, costal membrane broad : feet simple, last tibiae bi- 

 spinose ; last dorsal segment of the abdomen in 5 furnished with a large 

 produced plate, rounded at the apex (Stal). 



132. Flatoides indica, Walker. 



Elidiptera indica, Walker, List Hom. B. M. ii, p. 330 (1851). 

 Flatoides indica, Stal, Ofvers. K. V.-A. Forli., p. 489 (1862). 



^ . Body pale tawny, mottled with darker colour : head conical, 

 not longer than the pronotum, somewhat sinuate and with a brown 

 stripe above, yellow and marked with a darker colour beneath where 

 it widens to the clypeus : rostrum luteous, reaching to the hind cox89 ; 

 eyes very prominent : antennae luteous, rather long, second joint longer 

 than the first ; pronotum conical, slightly excavated and indistinctly 

 angular on the hind border : disc of the mesonotum very concave ; a 

 ridge on each side towards the tip which forms an acute angle : ab- 

 domen slightly obconical, a little longer and broader than the thorax : 

 legs pale tawny, slightly grooved : a single black-tipped spine on each 

 hind tibia : tegmina very pale tawny, almost colourless towards the tips, 

 adorned on the veins with numerous brown dots, some of which are 

 confluent and with a transverse brown band at one-third from the base ; 



