1888.] E. T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian Rhynchota. 133 



barely re aching the posterior feet and enclosed at its base : eyes very 

 stout ; ocelli approximate to the eyes : antennae 5-jointed, the 3 — 4 joints 

 longest : pronotam very tumid and inclined forwards ; anocles rounded : 

 hemelytra longer than the abdomen : sternal ridge ending in a point 

 and flattened between the anterior feet, very broad between the middle 

 and posterior feet, slightly bifurcate in order to receive the ventral 

 point which is very short : abdomen very tumid, ecarinate : feet cylin- 

 drical (Sign.). 



Remarkable for the large scutellum and the rounded tibiae which 

 are very finely furrowed above. 



236. EuRYASPis TRANSVERSALis, Signoret. 



Eurysaspis transversalis, Sign., A. S. E. F. (2 s.) ix, p. 343, t. 10, f. 1, (1851), 

 Euri/aspis transversalis, Stal, En. Hem. v, p. 95, (1876). 



Yellow, varied with brown and lighter yellow : head small, yellow, 

 with the lateral margins sinuate, the sinuosity black as well as the 

 grooves between the lobes, the space around the ocelli and the posterior 

 margin : pronotum divided in two by a sinuated band of a lighter 

 yellow almost white, proceeding from one to the other of the posterior 

 angles ; the anterior part, yellow, and the posterior, brownish : scutel- 

 lum with a yellow surface anteriorly, bounded by a circular band of a 

 much lighter yellow and almost white, and, posteriorly, a broad patch 

 of a brownish red, circumscribed yellow, and strongly punctured above 

 on both sides : hemelytra brownish-yellow : membrane transparent 

 with 7 — 8 veins, hardly bifurcate : body beneath and feet yellow : 

 abdomen with four brown bands : stigmata small and black (Sign.). 

 Long, 9 mill. 



Reported from Pondicherry. 



Div. Menidaria. 

 En. Hem. v, p. 65, (1876). 



a. b. c. as in Ho plistoderaria, (p. 66). 



d. Second ventral segment obtusely convex in the middle, or with 

 a porrect spine, rounded or compressed, very rarely obtusely somewhat 

 tuberculate in the middle, if so, the tibiae are rounded and without a 

 furrow: metastethium not elevated: mesostethial ridge everywhere 

 equal in breadth, or somewhat so : third joint of the rostrum very rarely 

 a little longer than the second. 



e. Tibiae above generally sulcated, or flattish and margined, very 

 rarely entirely rounded and without a furrow, if so, the venter has a 

 porrect spiuc at the base. 



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