124 E. T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian Rliynchota. [No. 2, 



mctastcthium : second and third joints of the rostrum equal, or some- 

 what so, in length, the third joint never longer than the second : ventral 

 spiracula generally concolorous, very rarely black : tibiao above nar- 

 rowly and slightly sulcated, or somewhat so. {Stdl), 



Genus Plautia, Stal. 



Hem. Afric. i, p. 82, 191 (1864); Ofvers. K. V.-A. Forli. p. 514 (18G7);En. 

 Hem. V, p. 64, 92 (1876). 



Body broadly obovate : head flat, rounded at the apex, slightly 

 sinuated on both sides before the eyes, tylus about as long as the 

 juga : rostrum produced a little behind the last pair of coxae, first 

 joint not extending beyond the bucculae posteriori}^, second joint a 

 little shorter than the third : first joint of the antennae not reaching 

 the apex of the head, second joint never longer than the third : 

 anterior lateral margins of the pronotum entire, not callous, anteriorly 

 entirely callous, levigate, not or barely truncated on both sides behind the 

 eyes : scutellum shortish, frena continued somewhat beyond the middle : 

 mesostethium carinate : venter punctured, basal tubercle very obtuse, 

 somewhat broad, slightly elevated, not somewhat compressed, very 

 obsolete ; metastethium less elevated : coriaceous part of the hemelytra 

 beneath (costal limbus generally excepted) sanguineous, or more or less 

 incarnate, above also generally more or less distinctly incarnate : tibias 

 sulcated above. {Stdl). 



229. Plautia fimbriata, Fabricius. 



Cimex fimhriafus, Fabr., Mant. Ins. ii, p. 295 (1787) ; Ent. Syst. iv, p. 121 

 (1794) ; Syst. Rhyng. p. 175 (1803) ; Herr. Schaff., Wanz. Ins. v, p, 63, t. 164, f. 

 605 (1839). 



Pentatoma fimhriolatum, Herr. Schaff., Wanz. Ins. vii, p. 102, f. 768 (1844). 



Pentatoma fimbriata, Dallas, List Hem. i, p. 251 (1851) ; Walker, Cat. Het. ii, 

 p. 298 (1867). 



Pentatoma crossota, Dallas, List I. c. p. 252 ; Walker, Cat., I. c. p. 300. 



Plautia fimbriata, Stal, Hem. Afric. i, p. 191 (1864) ; Hem. Fabr., i, p. 32 

 (1868) ; En. Hem. v, p. 92 (1876) ; Distant, A. M. N. H. (5 s.) iii, p. 45 (1879) ; 

 Trans. Ent. Soc. p. 415 (1883). 



Small : antenna pale, joints black at the apex : head, pronotum and 

 scutellum green, punctured, immaculate : hemelytra greyish, with a 

 median spot which almost forms a band, fuscous, exterior margin green : 

 wings cinereous, spot at the base fuscous: beneath green with a me- 

 dian line, yellow : anus porrect, emarginate at the apex (Fahr.). 



<S . ? . P. crossota, Dallas, has head, pronotum and scutellum bright 

 green, rather thickly and finely punctured with brown ; eyes black 



