6 E. T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian Rliyncliota. [No. 1, 



straight, impressed line on each side, and before the apex a small tooth ; 

 a small oblique pale line on both sides behind the fuscous eyes ; beneath 

 black, impressly punctured, a broad, pale, impunctate streak on each 

 side : rostrum ^-jointed, long, subpilose, fuscous, pale at the base, lying 

 between two pale, unidentate plates : antennae 5-jointed, black, last 

 joint yellow at the base : pronotum almost flat, deeply impressly punc- 

 tured black ; dots and spots, the margin and a longitudinal line some- 

 what elevated, pale ; posterior angles somewhat acute : scutellum longer 

 than half the abdomen, black, punctured like the pronotum but some of 

 the dots large, distinct, callous, and with three larger whitish spots at 

 the base : hemelytra obscurely fuscous, deeply impressly punctured, a 

 large, more distinct, pale spot on the disc ; membrane black, striated? 

 shining ; wings fuliginous : abdomen above fuscous, margin rounded, 

 prominulous, flavescent, with four deep black ocellar spots on both sides ; 

 beneath convex, greyish, shining, with a groove at the base for the 

 rostrum ; five black marginal spots on both sides ; penultimate segment 

 spotted black : pectus testaceous with black impressed dots and patches, 

 a fuscous speculum between the anterior and intermediate feet : anas 

 entire : feet testaceous, unarmed ; femora with two lines and several 

 spots, black : first tibiae dilated outwards at the apex, all the tibiae 

 angulate, black at base and apex, subpilose ; last tibiee compressed : 

 tarsi 3- jointed, testaceous, black at the apex, subpilose {Wolff.). Long, 

 20-25 mill. 



Reported frorn Java, Ceylon, Bombay, Bengal, China, Japan. The 

 Indian Museum has specimens from Calcutta (mihi), Sikkim, Assam. 

 Very variable in size and depth of colour and in having bucculae an- 

 teriorly rounded or angulate. 



144. Erthesina guttata, Fabricius. 



Cimex guttatus, Fabr., Mant. Ins. ii, p. 291 (1787); Ent. Syst. iv, p. 108 (1794). 



Edessa guttata, Fabr., Syst. Rliyng, p. 151 (1803). 



Erthesina guttata, Stal, Hem. Fabr. i, p. 23 (1868) : En. Hem. v, p. 45 (1876). 



Head oblong, greenish, with a dorsal line and margin whitish : 

 pronotum punctured, scarcely spinose, greenish, sprinkled with numer- 

 ous white dots : scutellum and hemelytra of the same colour as the 

 pronotum : wings, black : margin of abdomen varied green and white : 

 body beneath, flavescent, with greenish streaks and dots : first pair of 

 femora above greenish, beneath flavescent : first tibiae membranous, 

 black, with a white ring ; last femora yellow ; last tibiae, black with a 

 yellow ring (Fahr.). Long 23-25 mill. 



Reported from Siam, Ceylon, (mihi), India. Differs from E.fulloj 

 Thunb. in its larger size, colour above, head broader anteriorly and 

 apex of scutellum pale yellow-whitish. 



