12 E. T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian Rhynchota. [No. 1, 



carvel edges, a longitudinal three-cornered whitish spot whose posterior 

 corner reaches almost the humeral angles, the inner corner resting on the 

 transverse furrow which is rather shallow : apex of scutellum rounded, 

 margin sometimes whitish, basal angle black, with a small callous 

 point : hemelytra uniformly thickly punctured, with some brown trans- 

 verse streaks and dots ; corium a little longer than the scutellum, apex 

 almost acute-angled, a long four-cornered spot at the base, as also 

 tlie principal vein with an abbreviated streak becoming broader 

 hindward, yellowish- white : suture of membrane almost straight, mem- 

 brane diaphanous with raised veins having scattered brow a dots be- 

 tween them : dorsum black ; the two posterior tibiae with yellowish 

 lateral ypots : connexivum at the emarginations with four-cornered 

 black-punctured and often ocellated spots : pectus black between the 

 feet, the sides thickly punctured brown, the acetabula less so : feet 

 coarsely punctured, before the tips of the femora a whitish and black 

 punctured ring : abdomen thickly punctured brown, the median part, 

 a zigzag lateral streak, and a semicircular lateral spot, yellowish-white ; 

 both sides of the lateral streak densely punctured ; the middle of the 

 base of the sixth abdominal segment and two dots on the third abdomi- 

 nal segment, black. Long, 4^ mill. 

 Reported from further India. 



151. SCIOCORTS INDICUS. 

 Sciocoris indicus, Dallas, List Hem. i, p. 132 (1851) ; Walker, Cat. Het. i, p. 177 

 (1867) ; (?) Stal, En. Hem. v, p. 128 (1876). 



$ . Grey, punctured ; head subelongate ; antennae fuscous at the 

 apex ; feet pale, punctured fuscous ; membrane punctured fuscous ; body 

 beneath fuscous-grey, apical spot black (Dallas). Long 5^ — 6 mill. 



Reported from N. India. 



Div. Myrocharia, Stal. 



En. Hem. v, p. 52 (1876). 



Lateral margins of the head and generally also of the pronotum 

 flattened, laminated ; the lateral margins of the head posteriorly not, 

 or only obsoletely, sinuated ; those of the pronotum entire or very 

 obsoletely crenulate : juga generally longer than the tylus, and, before 

 the tylus, contiguous; antenniferous tubercles not, or only rarely, 

 very slightly prominulous beyond the sides of the head: first joint 

 of the antennae not reaching the apex of the head : rostrum moderate 

 or shortish, second joint shorter than the two apical taken together, 

 or at least not longer : mesostethium generally furrowed : femora 

 at least the first pair, spinose beneath : venter without a furrow, un- 

 armed at the base (Stal). 



