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



men : coriaceous portion of the hemelytra with a purplish tint, mem- 

 brane light-brown with a patch of obscure brown on the interior side, 

 near the coriaceous portion: head, pronotum, scutellum, and hemelytra 

 covered with numerous minute concave black points, hardly visible : 

 wings with a black tint ; eyes obscurely brown : body beneath and feet 

 light grey, a little yellowish, with very numerous black points like 

 those above : abdomen above entirely black with the margin spotted 

 black and white or yellowish : antennae 6- jointed, shorter than the 

 abdomen, black, with white patches at the joints (De Geer) . Long, 10^ ; 

 broad, GJ mill. Differs from D. haccarum in not having the angles of 

 the pronotum produced and pointed, but merely rounded. 



Westwood's ^lia depressa is thus described : — ' Luteous, punctured 

 black : the slight margin of the pronotum pale : sides of scutellum 

 towards the apex, spotted black, apex itself luteous : membrane fusces- 

 cent, a large internal patch at the base, black : sides of abdomen 

 spotted yellow and black, feet and body beneath luteous, tarsi black.* 

 Long, 10| mill. 



Reported from Puna (Bombay). 



172. DOLYCORIS INDICUS, Stal. 



Dolycoris indicus, Stal, En. Hem. v. p. 76 (1876). 

 2 . Very like and closely allied to D. verhasci, De Geer, but appears 

 to diifer in the narrower form ; head, pronotum, and scutellum less densely 

 punctured ; membrane longer ; anterior lateral margins of pronotum 

 more broadly pallid, sparingly black-punctured at the base (Stal). 

 Long, 9| ; broad, 5 mill. 



Reported from India, Deccan, Darjeeling. Distant has an allied 

 form, D. formosanay from Formosa. 



Genus Codophila, Mulsant, Stal. 



pt. Pun. France Pent. p. 237 (1866j; Stal, Ofvers. K. Y.-A. Forh. xxix, 3. p. 38 

 (1872) ; En. Hem. v, p. 76 (1876). 



Differs from Garpocoris, Kolenati, Stal, in having the anterior 

 lateral margins of the pronotum anteriorly obtuse, not reflexed. 



173. Codophila maculicollis, Dallas. 



Pentatoma maculicolUsy Dallas, List Hem. i, p. 234 (1851) Stal, Ofvers. K. V.-A., 

 Forh. p. 497 (1862); Walker, Cat. Het. ii, p. 299 (1867). 



Pentatoma ardbica, Stal, Ofvers. K. V.-A., Forh. p. 233 (1854). 

 Codophila maculicollis, Stal, En. Hem. v, p. 76 (1876). 



$ . Ovate : head pale yellow, rather thickly punctured, with the 

 lateral margins and two longitudinal lines, united in front, black : eyes 



