1888.] E. T. Atkiufion— Notes on Indian Rliynchota. 127 



Genus Diplostiea, Dallas. 



List Hem. i, p. 300 (1851) ; Walker, Cat. Het. ii, p. 391 (1867) : Stal, Ofvers. 

 K, y.-A., Forh, p. 522 (J867) ; En Hem. v. p. 64, 94 (1876). Includes Carenoscaptui^, 

 Signoret, A. S. B. F. (2 s.) ix, p. 341 (1851). 



Body elongate, broadest across the middle of the pronotnra, thence 

 attenuated posteriorly : head large, longer than broad between the ejes, 

 margins very obsoletely sinuate, tylus and juga subeqaal in length, 

 punctures arranged in longitudinal rows ; ocelli moderate, placed very 

 little further from each other than from the eyes : antennae inserted a 

 little in front of the eyes, about half the length of the body, 5-jointed ; 

 basal joint very short, not reaching nearly to the apex of the head ; second 

 joint shorter than the third ; the third joint shorter than the fourth ; 

 the fifth shorter than the fourth, but longer than the third : rostrum 

 stout, reaching the base of the abdomen, inserted in front of the base of 

 the antennae, basal joint short, not reaching the base of the head, second 

 joint longer, third longest, fourth longer than the first but shorter than 

 the second : pronotum hexagonal, immarginate, lateral margins round : 

 ridge on the meso- and meta-stethium strongly elevated, robust, furnished 

 with a deep farrow, elevated margins of furrow produced anteriorly 

 before the first pair of coxae, posteriorly behind the last cox83, lobed ; 

 basal tubercle of venter compressed : furrow of the orifices long : scutel- 

 lum reaching a little beyond the middle of the abdomen with the lateral 

 margins waved, apex very broad and rounded. Coriaceous portion of the 

 hemeiytra with the apical margin very oblique ; membrane large with 

 numerous longitudinal veins ; posterior lateral angles of abdominal 

 segments slightly spinose : abdomen beneath with an obtuse median 

 longitudinal ridge ; legs rather stout ; tarsi three- jointed ; basal joint 

 as long as the two following taken together. 



231. DiPLOSTiRA vALiDA, Dallas. 



Diplostira valida, Dallas, List Hem. i, p. 301, t. 10, f. 5 (1851) ; Walker Oat. 

 Het. ii, p. 391 (1867) : Stal, En. Hem. v. p. 94 (1876) : Distant, A. M. N. H. (5 s.) 

 iii, p. 45 (1879). 



Carenoscaptus macuUpes, Signoret, A. S. E. P. (2 s.) ix, p. 341 t, 10, f. 10 ; 

 Walker, 1. c. iii, p. 575 (1868). (1851). 



? . Testaceous, shining, more or less punctured with brown : head 

 with the lateral margins black, and with six punctured, blackish brown 

 longitudinal lines, placed two on the tylus and which meet at the middle 

 of the vertex, and two on each of the juga, meeting at the ocelli : prono- 

 tum orange testaceous, thickly and coarsely punctured with dark brown ; 

 the punctures becoming confluent on the posterior portion of the disc 

 forming a broad blackish brown band, indistinctly clouded with testace- 



