1888.] E. T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian Rliyncliota. 7 



145. Erthesina acuminata, Dallas. 



Erthesina acuminata, Dallas, List, i, p. 183 (1851) ; Walker, Cat. Het, i, p. 217 

 (1867) ; Stal, En. Hem. v, p. 45 (1876). 



<^ . Above greyish-testaceous, very thickly punctured with brown : 

 head pointed in front, with the lateral margins slightly toothed near the 

 apex ; pitchy brown, with the lateral margins, and a median longitudi- 

 nal impunctate line, testaceous ; pronotum with the anterior portion 

 pitchy brown, more thickly punctured than the posterior, with a short 

 impunctate testaceous line continuous with that of the head : scutellura 

 more coarsely punctured than the rest of the surface, the base with 

 three indistinct testaceous spots : membrane brownish, semitransparent : 

 margins of the abdomen variegated with black and yellow : body be- 

 neath testaceous, sparingly punctured with brown : abdomen with a 

 transverse black line on each of the sutures ; anal plate dark brown : 

 sternum black : legs testaceous ; femora with numerous brown points, 

 and with a brown longitudinal streak on each side ; tibiae brownish at 

 the base and the apex ; dilatation of the anterior tibiae triangular ; 

 tarsi with the tip of the apical joint, and the claws, brown : rostrum 

 testaceous, with the apical joint and the edges of the groove in the 

 second and third, deep pitchy brown : antennae brown, with the two 

 apical joints pitchy, the base of the last joint orange (Dallas). Long, 

 21 mill. 



Reported from N. Bengal. 



Genus Halts, Fabricius, Dallas. 



Fabr., pt, Syst. Rhyng. p. 103 (1803): Am. & Serv. Hist. Nat. Ins. Hem. 

 p. 108 (1843) : Herr. Sohaff. Wanz. Ins. vii, p. 54 (1844) : Dallas, List Hera, i, p. 

 153, 187 (] 851) : Walker, Cat. Het. i, p. 230 (1867) : Stal, Hem. Afric. i, p. 80 

 (1864) ; Ofvers. K. V.-A. Forh. p. 510 (1867) ; En. Hem. v, p. 45 (1876). 



Head elongated, tapering in front ; tylus as long as, or longer than, 

 the juga ; first joint of rostrum not extending beyond the bucculse : last 

 tibiee simple, not dilated : apical angles of sixth segment of abdomen 

 rounded at the apex : veins of membrane irregularly ramulose. In 

 Erthesina, the last tibiae are dilated ; in Dalpada, the head is rounded or 

 truncated at the apex with the sides more or less parallel. 



146. Halts dentata, Fabricius. 



Cimex dentatus, Fabr., Syst. Ent. p. 702 (1775) ; Spec. Ins. ii, p. 346 (1781); 

 Mant. Ins. ii, p. 284(1787); Ent. Syst. iv, p. 96 (1794); Wolff. Ic. Cim. ii, p. 51, 

 t. 6, f. 48 (1801 ) : Stoll, Punaises, p. 33 t. 6, f. 47 (1788). 



Cimex sulcatus, Thunberg, Nov. Ins. Spec, ii, p. 43 (1783). 



Halys serrigera, Westwood, Hope, Cat. Hem. i, p. 23 (1837). 



