18 E. T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian Rhyncliota. [No. 1, 



base of venter, dorsum beneath, and feet, yellow-ferruginous : membrane 

 sordid, veins darker j stigmata and pectus, black (iHeber). Long, 12| 

 mill. 



Reported from Further India. 



Genus Plexippus, Stal. 

 Ofvers. K. V.-A. Forh., p. 505 (1867) : En. Hem. v, p. 55, 71 (1876). 

 Head short, much shorter tban the pronotum, almost shorter than 

 broad between the eyes, rather narrowed forwards, rounded at the 

 apex, lateral margins scarcely sinuate before the eyes ; juga somewhat 

 longer than the tylus, distant j ocelli a little more than twice more distant 

 from each other than from the eyes ; first joint of antennae even with 

 the apex of the head, second joint scarcely as long as the third ; rostrum 

 not extending beyond the intermediate feet, short : anterior margin of 

 pronotum obliquely and somewhat broadly truncate behind the eyes, 

 anterior lateral margins slightly rounded, anterior angles obtuse, a 

 little prominulous beyond the eyes : apical angle of corium a little 

 produced, apical margin somewhat sinuate near the apical angle : veins 

 of membrane simple : pro-stethium slightly impressed ; meso-stethium, 

 slightly carinate : second ventral segment very slightly convexly eleva- 

 ted in the middle : odoriferous apertures continued in a not long, 

 abruptly abbreviated furrow (Stdl). 



157. Plexippus dorsalis, Stal. 



Plexippus dorsalis, Stil, Berlin Ent. Zeitsclx. xiii, p. 226 (1869) : En. Hem., p. 

 71 (1876j. 



9 . Subobovate : weakly greyish-flavescent, above rather densely 

 punctured black, these dots are arranged behind the middle of the prono- 

 tum and before the middle of the scutellum in short irregular lines : 

 membrane weakly fuscous-greyish, veins more obscure, exterior basal 

 angle fuscous : dorsum of abdomen fuscous-violaceous ; connexivum 

 blackish, two last segments obsoletely palely streaked ; wings slightly 

 infuscate ; spiracula narrowly circled black. Like B. falvescens, Dallas. 

 Base of head, at the eyes, marked by an impunctate spot ; juga gradually 

 converging, a little distant at the apex : antennge remotely and briefly 

 setose, second joint more than twice as long as first : pronotum more 

 than half longer than the head, almost more than twice broader than 

 long, anterior margin slightly elevated between the eyes, lateral margins 

 slightly rounded, narrowly black : scutellum sparingly palely punc- 

 tured at the apex : exterior margin of corium narrowly blackish to- 

 wards the base: pro-stethium sparingly and palely punctured, exterior 

 margin black : meso-stethium sparingly punctured towards the coxa3 



