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



tliium not elevated : odoriferous apertures continued in a furrow that 

 passes into a ridge : extremity of angles of abdominal segments promi- 

 nulous ; second ventral segment prominulous, in the middle at the base, 

 in an obtuse tubercle : tibisa rounded, above convex, only towards apex 

 obsoletely flattish or subsulcate (Stdl). 



227. Sabj:us spinosus, Dallas. 



Bhaphigaster spinosus, Dallas, List Hem. i, p. 278 (1851). 



Bhaphig aster humeralis^ Dallas, List Hem. i, p. 278 (1851) ; Walker, Cat. Het. 

 ii, p. 364 (1867). 



Sahceus spinosus, Stal, Ofvera. K. V.-A. Forh. p. 632 (1870) ; En. Hem. v, p. 92 

 (1876). 



9 . Above green, very thickly and rather coarsely punctured : pro- 

 notum with the lateral angles produced into acute spines : membrane 

 transparent, colourless : margins of the abdomen with a small black 

 point at the posterior angle of each segment : rostrum pale yellowish 

 green, with the apex of the last joint, black : antennse with the two 

 basal joints, green ; the third with the basal half green, the apical half 

 black {Dallas). Long 16f ; humeral breadth, 12^ mill. 



Reported from Philippines, Assam. 



Genus Htllus, Stal. 

 Ofvers. K. V.-A. Forh. p. 513 (1867) ; En. Hem. v, p. 63, 92 (1876). 

 Body broadly obovate : head much inclined, slightly sinuate on both 

 sides before the eyes, thence somewhat narrowed, rounded at apex ; 

 tylus scarcely longer than the juga, lateral margins somewhat obtuse ; 

 bucculsa continued through, moderately elevated ; ocelli near the eyes : 

 rostrum extended somewhat behind the last coxge, first joint on a level 

 with the bucculse, second joint longer than the third ; first joint of the 

 antennas not reaching the apex of the head, second joint shorter than the 

 third : pronotum rather declined anteriorly, anterior margin narrowly 

 and distinctly callously elevated, scarcely truncate behind the eyes, 

 anterior lateral margins very obtuse, convex, basal margin very broadly 

 somewhat sinuate, lateral angles spinosely produced : scutellum some- 

 what short, almost equally broad and long, narrow at the apex, frena 

 extended beyond the middle of the scutellum : extremity of apical 

 angle of the corium rounded : base of venter unarmed, neither spinose, 

 nor tuberculate : mesostethium distinctly carinate : apical angles of the 

 abdominal segments acutely very slightly prominulous : tibise furrowed 

 above {Stdl). 



