1886.] B. T. Atkinson— iVo^e5 on Indian Rhynchota. 201 



black (Westiu.). Body with cephalic process, long, 63 ; cephalic process, 

 long, 25 ; exp. teg. 115^ millims. 



Reported from Malacca, Sumatra. P. javanensis, Distant, is closely 

 allied to P. nobilis, West., from which it differs thus : — the prolongation 

 of the head is not prominently and dentately spined as in P. nohilis, but 

 only obtusely spined, thus giving the head a much more slender appear- 

 ance, the spines in both species being arranged in six longitudinal rows, 

 two above, two beneath, and one on each side : the black spotting is 

 also much more minute and the colour of the dorsal surface of the abdo- 

 men is different. P. miostelinus, Distant, also from Java, is allied to P. 

 ^unctatus, Olivier, from which it differs by the much more prolonged head, 

 the apex of which is not distinctly curved upwards, and which is also 

 more spotted with black than in Olivier's species : the abdomen above 

 is ochraceous and not black, &c. 



Genus Cynthila, Stal. 

 Stettin Ent. Zeit. xxiv, p. 230 (1863). 



Head narrower than the thorax ; protuberance slender, porrect : 

 frons much narrowed towards the base with two obsolete parallel ridges ; 

 vertex sinuated at the base, a little broader than the eyes, ridged longitu- 

 dinally in the middle : second joint of the antennae subglobose : rostrum 

 extending almost to the apex of the abdomen : thorax in the middle 

 produced anteriorty in an angle, longitudinally ridged in the middle, 

 very broadly sinuated at the base : scutellum tricarinate : tegmina some- 

 what narrow, scarcely amplified towards the apex, rounded at the apex 

 with longitudinal veins rarely furcated, almost entirely transversely 

 venulose : wings less ample, tegmina much shorter, posterior margin 

 not sinuated, transverse veinlets remote : feet slender, last tibiaa 6-spi- 

 nose. Allied to Ulasia (Stdl) . 



117. Cynthila ferocula, Stal. 



Cynthila ferocula, Stal, Stettin Ent. Zeit. xxiv, p. 230 (1863). 



d . Livid : here and there pale ferruginous : almost entire clypeus, 

 the cephalic process, and the basal limbus of the abdominal segments, 

 infuscate : very broad streak on the frons, dilated towards the apex, 

 four small spots on the vertex, two longitudinal lines diverging back- 

 wards, posteriorly abbreviated, also several small spots sprinkled over 

 the thorax above and two spots on the same between the lateral ridges 

 and a broad patch on the deflexed sides, minute spots scattered over the 

 scutellum, and bands and spots on the feet, black fuscous : last tibiae un- 

 coloured : tegmina weakly ferruginous from the base to beyond the mid- 



