130 E. T. Atkinson— iVoi^es on Indian Rliynchota. [No. 2, 



a little more than one-fourth of the length of the scutellnm ; corium 

 somewhat reaching the apex of the abdomen ; apical angle rounded : 

 membrane with longitudinal veins : meso-stethium carinate : farrow of the 

 odoriferous apertures continued in a gradually vanishing wrinkle or 

 ridge : venter rather convex, unarmed at the base {Stdl). 

 Type, Scutellera trimaculata, St. Farg. 



233. AsTTANAx TRiMACULATUs, St. Farg. & Scrv. 



Scutellera trimaculata, St. Farg. & Serv. Enc. Meth, x, p. 411 (1825). 



Graphosoma trimaculata, Germar, Zeitschr. i, p. 54 (1839) ; Walker, Cat. Het. i, 

 p. 69 (1867). 



Ho'plistodera trimaculata, Dallas, List Hem. i, p. 217 (1851) ; Walker, 1. c, ii, 

 p. 265 (1867). 



Astyanax trimaculata, Stal, Of v. K. V.-A. Forh. p. 629 (1870) ; En. Hem. v, p, 94 

 (1876). 



c^. Pale testaceous, a little greyish; throughout finely punctured 

 brown, the punctures form six longitudinal rows on the head : sides of 

 pronotum spinose : scutellum with three whitish impunctate spots, 

 bordered brown, the apical largest, oval : last four joints of the antennas 

 long, almost equal : rostrum extending a little beyond the posterior coxaa 

 (St. Farg.). Long, 8| mill. 



Reported from Java, Philippines, Penang, Malacca, Burma. 



Genus Ckithetjs, Stal. 

 Ofvers. K. V.-A. Forh. p. 517 (1867) ; En. Hem. v, 64, 94 (1876). 



Body oval, depressed : rostrum long, extended almost to the apex of 

 the abdomen, first joint extending somewhat beyond the bucculae, third 

 somewhat longer than the second ; head somewhat narrowed forwards, 

 obtusely rounded at the apex, lateral margins somewhat acute, slightly 

 sinuate behind the middle ; juga and tylus of equal length ; bucculae 

 continued through, moderately elevated ; ocelli scarcely thrice farther 

 from each other than from the eyes ; antennje somewhat slender, first 

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

 third : anterior lateral margins of the pronotum, reflex ed, straight, 

 anterior margin callous, scarcely truncate behind the eyes, lateral angles 

 scarcely prominulous : scutellum moderate, narrow at the apex, frena 

 extended beyond the middle of the scutellum : veins of membrane, 

 simple : mesostethium carinate : metastethium somewhat elevated, pos- 

 teriorly emarginate : furrow of the odoriferous apertures passing into 

 a gradually evanescent wrinkle or ridge : abdomen slightly rounded on 

 both sides, venter longitudinally somewhat flat in the middle, the extre- 



