1888.] E. T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian Rliyncliota. 6i 



Var. a. Scutellum black with a longitudinal red streak, yellow in 

 the middle, and above, in each corner, a red spot. Long, 7^ ; broad almost 

 4i mill. 



Reported from Java, Sumatra, Tenasserira, Assam (mihi). The 

 Indian Museum has specimens from Tenasserim. 



Species of doubtful position. 

 209, Strachia afflicta, Walker, Cat. Het. ii, p. 332 (1867). 



Dark-green, broad, elliptical, shining, thinly and roughly punctured, 

 tawny beneath : head broad, partly tawny along the borders ; sides 

 reflexed ; jnga and tylus of equal length : rostrum tawny, extending to 

 the hind coxee ; antennee black, slender ; and 2 joints tawny ; first ex- 

 tending almost to the front of the head ; second much shorter than the 

 third, which is tawny at the base : pronotum with slightly reflexed 

 sides ; fore angles slightly acute ; hind angles much rounded : scutellum 

 long, rounded and rather broad at the tip : abdomen above tawny : 

 legs tawny, rather stout ; tibiae setulose, furrowed : hemelytra with a 

 brownish membrane : wings cinereous (lFaZ>[;er). Body long, 14| — 15 

 mill. 



Reported from India. 



210. Strachia inornata, Walker, Cat. Het. ii, p. 331 (1867). 

 Black, elliptical, smooth, shining, here and there coarsely punc- 

 tured, testaceous beneath : head with a large testaceous spot on the 

 hind border ; sides reflexed ; juga and tylus of equal length : rostrum 

 black, extending to the hind coxee, testaceous at the base : pronotum 

 with a well defined transverse furrow, with a testaceous spot on the 

 fore part of each side, and with a testaceous stripe which is dilated on 

 the fore border and more so on the hind border ; angles much rounded : 

 scutellum with a testaceous spot on each side, and with a testaceous 

 stripe : pectus and abdomen beneath with a broad black stripe on each 

 side : legs black, stout ; femora towards the base and coxae testaceous : 

 hemelytra with a testaceous costal dot near the base and with two 

 testaceous spots in the disc ; first spot before the middle ; second be- 

 hind the middle, larger than the first; membrane cinereous (Walker), 

 Body long, 7— 7^ mill. 



Reported from India. 



211. Strachia strangulata. Walker, Cat. Het. ii, p. 344 (1867). 



Aeneons-black, elongate-elliptical, shining, thinly and roughly 

 punctured : head smooth ; sides slightly reflexed ; juga contiguous 

 beyond the tylus : eyes prominent ; rostrum black, extending to the 



