1888.] E. T. Aikmson— Notes on Indian Rliyndiota. 15 



what rugose ; membrane semitransparent, brownish, veins brown ; abdo- 

 men beneath slightly shining, thickly and finely punctured, with the 

 margins broadly testaceous, and finely punctured brown : legs brown, 

 with the tarsi pale testaceous : rostrum testaceous, antennse black, with 

 the apical joint pale fulvous (Dallas). Long 8| — 9| mill. 



d . Oblong fuscous-lurid, densely and strongly punctured fuscous, 

 beneath shining subasneous : apex of antennse, rostrum, coxae and tarsi, 

 also marginal streak on venter obscurely testaceous : membrane brun- 

 nescent, veins and margin more obscure : wings fuscescent : second 

 joint of antennae somewhat shorter than the third : rostrum not reach- 

 ing the last pair of coxae ; sides of pronotum nearly straight (Haghmd). 

 Long, 9 ; broad, 51 ; exp. hemi., 17 mill. 



Reported from Gilolo, Borneo, Java, Philippines, Rangoon. 



155. ^DNUS VENTRALis, Dallas. 



JEdnus vent7aUs, Dallas, Trans. Ent. Soc. (n. s.) ii, p. 10, t. 1, f. 3 (1852) ; Stal, 

 En. Hem. v, p. 54 (1876) ; Distant, A. M. N. H. (5 s.), iii, p. 45 (1879). 



Ovate, rather convex, pale greyish brown, very thickly and finely 

 punctured with black : head rather small, very minutely punctured with 

 black above and beneath : eyes pale ; ocelli yellowish : antennee slender, 

 rather sparingly clothed with short hairs ; three first joints testaceous, 

 fourth joint pale brown, with the base testaceous ; fifth joint, pale 

 brown ; rostrum yellow : pronotum very thickly and finely punctured 

 with black, with the punctures more distant on a slightly impressed 

 space which crosses the disc about the middle, forming a pale trans- 

 verse band ; immediately in front of this impressed space are four small 

 tubercles : scutellum very large, reaching very nearly to the apex of 

 the body, constricted a little before the middle ; very thickly and finely 

 punctured with black, more thickly punctured and somewhat rugose 

 towards the base, where there is a small smooth whitish point on each 

 side within the basal angles ; the basal angles themselves black : pectus 

 rather darker than the upper surface, very thickly and finely punctured 

 with black : legs yellow ; femora with numerous black or brown points, 

 the anterior pair with a double row of small black spines on the lower 

 surface : tibiae with a few brown points, and with a few minute bristles 

 along the edges : the coriaceous portion of the heraelytra rather less 

 thickly punctured than the pronotum and scutellum : membrane trans- 

 parent, colourless : wings semitransparent, iridescent : abdomen beneath 

 deep shining black, slightly brassy, very thickly and finely punctured ; 

 the margins pale griseous, thickly and finely punctured with black • 

 the edges with small black spots at the junctions of the sc^'-ments 



