1888.] E. T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian Rhynchota. 3 



140. Dalpada tecta, Walker. 

 Dalpada tecta, Walker, Cat. Het. i, p. 224 (1867). 



Pale testaceous, elliptical, coarsely, and thickly punctured ; punctures 

 aeneous, beneath luteous : head very little shorter than the pronotum ; 

 tylus hardly extending beyond the juga, a thinly punctured space on the 

 bind border : eyes rather prominent; rostrum black towards the tip, 

 extending a little beyond the fore border of the third abdominal 

 segment : antennae luteous, slender, black-speckled, first joint not ex- 

 tending to the front of the head ; second shorter than the third : pronotum 

 with a smooth longitudinal line, which is dilated on the transverse im- 

 pression ; hind angles obtuse, prominent : scutellum extending rather 

 beyond the angle of the corium, with a smooth interrupted longitudinal 

 line which is dilated on the fore borders at the tip : pectus and under- 

 side of abdomen thinly and minutely punctured on each side ; panc- 

 tures black : legs slender, black speckled : hemelytra with a short 

 black stripe on the disc : membrane brown. Shorter than D. affinis^ 

 Dallas, and the posterior angles of the pronotum are neither convex nor 

 smooth. Long, body, 13 mill. 



Reported from Silhat. 



141. Dalpada confusa. Distant. 



Dalpada confusa, Distant, Trans. Ent. Soc. p. 121 (1879) : Scien. Res. 2ad 

 Yarkand Miss. p. 3, f. 1, (1879). 



Luteous, thickly covered with green punctures : head emarginate in 

 front, with the sides reflexed and some small indistinct ochreous 

 markings at the base : antennae pitchy, each joint luteous at the base, 

 the basal and apical joints smallest, second shorter than third, 3-4 sub- 

 equal : rostrum just passing beyond the posterior coxae, with the tip 

 pitchy : pronotum somewhat transversely gibbous at the base, in a line 

 with the lateral angles, after which it is abruptly deflexed towards the 

 head ; the lateral angles, prominent, subacute ; lateral margins denticu- 

 lated for about half their length from the apex ; the punctuation is very 

 dense along the lateral margins and at the pronotal angles : scutellum 

 somewhat gibbous at the base, deflexed towards the apex, where it is 

 more sparingly punctured : corium with a faint impunctate longitudinal 

 line on the disc, extending from the base to about two-thirds its length, 

 rather widened at the apex : membrane extending beyond the apex of 

 the abdomen, pale fuscous, with the veins dark brown for half the 

 length from the base, followed by a row of four brown spots and a 

 marginal row of six spots of the same colour, the two outer ones being 

 long and linear : underside of body luteous, with the pectoral and abdo- 



