118 E. T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian Rhynchota. [No. 2, 



y ,— Notes on Indian Rhynchota ; Heteroptera, No. 4. 



By E. T. Atkinson, B. A. 



[Eeceived December 26tli, 1887 ;— Read January 4th, 1888.] 



Div. Nezaria. 



En. Hem. v, p. 63 (1876). 



a. h. c. as in Hoplistoderaria (p. 66). 



d. as in Catacantharia (p. 70). 



e. Entire feet, or at least the geniculse, pale, flaveseent or vires- 

 cent, rarely pictured or sprinkled black : antennae rarely to a very great 

 part, black : rostrum never entirely black : membrane rarely blackish. 



/. Body greenish, very rarely incarnate, above entirely densely, or 

 very densely, punctured ; punctures concolorous : membrane colourless : 

 venter without a furrow, second segment spinose or very distinctly 

 tuberculated, tubercle higher than the mesostethium which is not ele- 

 vated : margins of pronotum neither levigate nor, unless at the very extre- 

 mity of the lateral margins, very slightly reflexed : tibiae above flattish 

 or sulcated : dorsum of abdomen greenish, or, in dead specimens, flaves- 

 eent, very rarely anteriorly black : anterior lateral margins of the 

 pronotum, never, unless very narrowly, and then more broadly beneath 

 than above, black. 



Genus Acrosternum, Fieber. 



Eur. Hem., p. 79, 331 (1861) : Stal, En. Hem. v, p. 63, 90 (1876). 



Broad, oval : head semioval, broadened at the eyes, without a black 

 spot or small line beneath before the eyes at the antenniferous tubercles ; 

 frontal callus continued through, anteriorly narrower : eyes robust, ocelli 

 large : jugular plates low, margined, anteriorly scarcely lobulate, as long 

 as the base of the rostrum : pronotum transversely sexangular, flatly 

 convex, margin slightly carinate, straight ; corium exarcuate ; venter 

 rather densely and distinctly punctured, levigate in the middle. 



225. Acrosternum gramineum, Fabricius. 



Cimex gramineus, Fabr,, Mant. Ins. ii, p. 295 (1787) j Enfc. Sjst. iv, p. 120 

 (1794) ; Syst. Rhyng, p. 175 (1803). 



Cimex seladonius, Fabr., Ent. Sysfc. iv, p. 114 (1794); Syst, Rbyng. p. 17C, 

 (1803). 



Acrosternum gramineum, Stal, Hera. Fabr. i, p. 31 (1868); En. Hem. v, p. 90 

 (1876). 



cT, 2 . Body small, entirely green, immaculate ; above a little more 

 obscure, beneath a little paler (G. gramineus, Fabr.). Head flaveseent, 

 antennae fuscous at the apex ; pronotum virescent, anteriorly flaveseent : 

 scutellum flaveseent, with a pair of white dots at the apex : hemelytra 



