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



Div. HoPLISTODi^^RAKIA. 

 Stal, En. Hem. v. p. 61 (1876). 



a. — Entire orifices margined ; or auriculately margined ; or, gene- 

 rally, extended in a margined furrow, closed at the apex^ or in a con- 

 tinuous ridge : venter generally tuberculated at the base or spinose. 



h. — Anterior lateral margins of pronotum entire, unarmed, gene- 

 rally distinctly reflexed, or narrowly elevated and callous, rarely obtusely 

 rounded. 



c. — Mesostethium with a ridge generally slightly, or not so highly, 

 elevated, everywhere equally high : this ridge rarely entirely, or ante- 

 riorly strongly, elevated and compressed, and, very rarely, freely produced 

 between the first pair of coxae, and, if so, then either the tibiae are sul- 

 cated above, or broadly flat and margined, or the venter is furnished at 

 the base with a freely porrect spine, or the ridge itself is deeply sulcated, 

 or the punctures on the head are arranged in longitudinal rows r apical 

 angles of sixth abdominal segment very rarely produced in a large 

 acute tooth ; sixth ventral segment, in $ , obtusely and not so deeply 

 siauated at the apex, 



d. — Lateral angles of the pronotum produced in a spine or acumi- 

 nate process, or sinuated at the apex, anterior lateral margins very ob- 

 tuse, rounded, convex : pronotum anteriorly levigate, or sparingly punc- 

 tured ; within the sometimes callous anterior margin, furnished with a 

 row of punctures, generally regular : entire bucculee rather elevatedy 

 often higher posteriorly, abruptly elevated and sometimes somewhat 

 lobate posteriorly, there not gi^dually lower and evanescent : scutellum 

 broad behind the frena which do not extend beyond the middle of the 

 scutellum ; venter neither ridged nor furrowed, second segment without 

 a spine or tubercle in the middle ; second joint of the rostrum not 

 longer than the two apical joints taken together, generally short : fur- 

 row of the orifices elongate, varying in length : scutellum levigate on 

 the basal angles, or marked by a pale, levigate, callous spot : pronotum 

 anteriorly and the head strongly declined, sometimes perpendicularly : 

 feet pale, not sprinkled black, rarely streaked with black : punctures on 

 the head arranged in simple, parallel, longitudinal rows. 



Genus Alcimus, Dallas. 



List Hem. i, p, 218 (1851); Stal, Of vers., K. V.-A., Forh., p. 511(1867); En. 

 Hem. V. p. 61, 88 (1876). 



Head short, somewhat triangular, rather broader across the eyes 

 than its length, with the lateral margins strongly indented before the 

 eyes ; the tylus passing the juga, making the head rather pointed in 



