1888.] E. T. Atkinson— ^oi^es on Indian Rhynchota. 119 



virescent with a flavescent streak before tlie margin : wings white : 

 body virescent (0. seladonius, Fabr.). Above yellow-virescent, beneath 

 with antenneo and feet sordid yellow- whitish : second and third joints of 

 antennas subequal in length : scutellum with a small subcallous whitish 

 spot on both sides, at the apex : extremity of the apical angles of the 

 abdominal segments, black, somewhat acutely prominnlous (Stdl), Very 

 closely allied to A. incertuniy Sign., differing only in the points noticed. 

 Long, 9 ; broad, 5 mill. 



Reported from India : Utakamand and Calcutta. 



Genus Nezara, Am. & Serv. 



Hist. Nat. Ins. Hem. p. 143 (1843) ; Stal, Hem. Afrio. i, p. 82, 192 (1864) ; 

 Ofvera. K. V.-A., Forh., p. 530 (1867); En. Hem. ii, p. 40 (1872) ; v, p. 63, 91 

 (1876). Includes Rhaphig aster, Dallas, pt, List Hem. B. M. i, p. 274 (1851) ; Walker, 

 Cat. Het. B. M. ii, p. 356 (1867). 



Body oval or obovate : head flat, ovate, rounded at the apex, lateral 

 margins somewhat sinuated, lobe continued through in the middle : first 

 joint of rostrum not extending posteriorly beyond the bucculge, some- 

 times somewhat shorter than the bucculao : first joint of the antennge 

 barely reaching the apex of the head : anterior lateral margins of the 

 pronotum rarely very slightly reflexed or somewhat callous, anterior 

 margin sinuated between the eyes, behind the eyes on both sides trun- 

 cated, very rarely slightly callous in the middle : frena continued be- 

 yond the middle of the scutellum : mesostethium carinate : venter 

 tuberculate or spinose at the base : head beneath, before the eyes at the 

 antenniferous tubercle, marked by a black spot or small line : tibiae 

 above very often furrowed. 



226. Nezara viridula, Linn^us. 



Pentatoma smaragdula, Leon Dufonr, Recli. p. 157 (1833). 



Nezara smaragdula, Am. & Serv., Hist. Nat, Ins. Hem. p. 144 (1843) ; Fieber, 

 Eur. Hem. p. 330 (1861). 



Bhaphig aster prasinus, Dallas, List Hem. i, p. 274 (1851) : excl. syn. Linn. 



Pentatoma {Nezara) smaragdula, Guerin, Sagra Hist. Cuba, Ins. p. 373 (1857). 



Nezara prasina, Muls. and Rey, Pun. Pent. p. 295 (1866) : excl. syn. Linn. 



Nezara viridula, Stal, Hem. Afric, i, p. 193 (1864) ; Hem Fabr. i, p. 31 (1868) ; 

 En. Hem. ii, p. 41 (1872) ; v, p. 91 (1876) : Mayr, Reise Novara, p. 67 (1866) : Dis- 

 tant, A. M. N. H. (5 s.), p. 45 (1879) ; Biol. Cent. Am. Hem. p. 78 (1880) : White, 

 Ent. Mon. Mag. xiv, p. 276 (1879). 



Var. a. ; — Cimex smaragdulus, Fabr., Syst. Ent. p. 711 (1775) ; Spec. Ins. ii, p. 

 354 (1781) ; Mant. Ins. ii, p. 292 (1787) ; Ent. Syst. iv, p. 109 (1794) ; Syst. Rhyng. 

 p. 167 (1803) : Gmelin, ed. Syst. Nat., i (4), p. 2153 (1788) : Wolff, Ic, Cim. ii, p. 56, 

 t. 6, f. 53 (1801). Madeira, India. 



