1888.] E. T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian Rhynchota. 123 



228. Hyllus florens, Walker. 



Mormidea fiorens, Walker, Cat. Het. ii, p. 263 (1867). 



Hyllus ceruginosus, Haglund, Stettin Ent. Zeit, xxix, p. 160 (1868). 



Hyllus florens, Stal, Eu. Hem. v, p. 92 (1876). 



Deep green, broad, oval, roughly punctured ; under side and legs 

 pale : head above ochraceous, bordered with black and sometimes with 

 black sutures between the juga and the tylus which are of equal length : 

 rostrum extending a little beyond the hind coxse, tip black : antennae 

 black, slender, full half the length of the body ; first joint green, not 

 extending to the front ; third longer than the second, shorter than the 

 fourth ; fifth as long as the fourth : pronotum smooth along the fore 

 border ; spines black, stout, acute, very long, very slightly ascending : 

 scutellum with a round pale yellow apical spot : abdomen beneath with 

 a pale luteous disc and with black marginal spots : legs slender ; tarsi 

 luteous : membrane brown. {Walher). Body long, 8| mill. 



Reported from Sumatra, Malacca, Siam, Burma. 



Div. Plautiaria. 



En. Hem. v, p. 63, 64 (1876). 

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



d. Lateral angles of the pronotum generally not, or rarely very 

 slightly, prominulous, not acuminate, rarely strongly produced and 

 acuminate, if so, the head is furnished with black punctures arranged 

 in parallel longitudinal rows. 



e. Venter generally tuberculate or spinose at the base, the tubercle 

 touching, or somewhat so, the elevated mesostethium ; spine, when pre- 

 sent, long and depressed ; mesostethium not lower than the basal tuber- 

 cle of the venter when present : ridge on mesostethium posteriorly 

 sometimes either amplified or thickened hind wards : tibiae above flat and 

 margined or distinctly furrowed : third joint of the rostrum sometimes 

 longer than the second. 



/. Head moderate, not, or not so strongly, impressed between the 

 eyes and the ocelli: corium and scutellum rarely somewhat equal in 

 length, and frena rarely shorter by half than the scutellum, if so, the 

 ventral spiracula and the space around them are black : basal tubercle 

 of venter absent, or not extended in a spine. 



g. Entire body or the greatest part virescent, rarely incarnately 

 virescent : frena extended beyond the middle of the scutellum : the 

 anterior and the anterior lateral margins of the pronotum not, or only 

 slightly, callously elevated : metastethium and basal tubercle of the 

 venter equally highly elevated, the latter touching, or somewhat so, the 



