1888.] E. T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian Rhyiichota. 33 



pitchy black ; ocelli red ; pronotum with the lateral angles somewhat 

 prominent ; the anterior portion pale yellow, with fonr black bands, of 

 which the two lateral run from the anterior to the lateral angles, 

 leaving the lateral margins yellow ; the two median do not pass the 

 middle of the disc, and correspond with the two black lines of the head ; 

 the posterior portion of the pronotum is blackish, and the whole surface 

 is thickly and rather strongly punctured : scutellum with a large 

 triangular patch at the base, and a large patch on each side, broadest 

 towards the apex, greyish, punctured with black, leaving two lines 

 running from the basal angles, and meeting in the middle of the disc, a 

 short longitudinal line uniting these with the apex, and the apex itself, 

 pale yellow : coriaceous part of the hemelytra flesh colour, irregularly 

 punctured with black ; membrane dark brown : margins of the abdo- 

 men banded with orange and black, the middle of each segment being 

 orange : body beneath testaceous, shining : abdomen with a small spot 

 OQ each side of the base of each segment within the stigmata, a similar 

 spot in the middle of the posterior margin of the 5 and 6 segments, a 

 small transverse spot on each side of the disc of the third segment, and 

 the stigmata black : pectus with a few black spots : legs brownish, with 

 the tarsi black : rostrum reaching the base of the abdomen, with the 

 two basal joints testaceous, the two apical black : antennae black, with 

 the basal joint pitchy (Dallas). Long, 15| mill. 

 Reported from Arabia, 1^. India. 



Div. DiPLOXYARIA. 



En. Hem. v, p. 58(1876). 



a, h, c, as in Tropycorypharia (p. 19). 



d. — Head transversely convex, rarely somewhat flat, and, if so, the 

 juga are longer than the tylus and contiguous before it, or the Second 

 joint of the antennae is almost thrice longer than the first, or scarcely 

 extending beyond the apex of the head : juga generally longer than the 

 tylus and contiguous before the tylus : frena rarely slightly extended 

 beyond the middle of the scutellum : furrow of the orifices generally 

 short or very short, rarely continued in a- long wrinkle or ridge : first 

 joint of the antennae not reaching the apex of the head : venter some- 

 times furrowed. 



e. — Posterior angles of the pronotum not lobed : scutellum not 

 amplified behind the frena : head not cylindrical : rostrum not extend- 

 ed behind the pectus, second joint longer than the third : venter not 

 furrowed. 



/. — Antennae alike in both sexes, second joint longer than the 

 first. 



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