1888.] E. T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian Rliyncliota. 135 



Head rounded at the apex, tylns continued through ; ocelli four 

 times further from each other than from the eyes : antennaB extended, 

 reaching beyond the lateral angles of the pronotum, last three joints 

 equal, twice as long as the second : rostrum hardly reaching the last 

 pair of coxse : pronotum transverse, almost thrice broader than long ; 

 lateral angles roundly produced, posterior margin subsinuate : sides of 

 the scutellum a little sinuate ; apex rounded ; frena extending some- 

 what beyond the middle : dorsum of abdomen hardly violascent ; be- 

 neath densely, but not strongly, punctured ; ventral spine narrowed, 

 acute, reaching the middle between the anterior and intermediate coxoe ; 

 pleuree opaque, rufescent : minute black spots on the venter arranged 

 in six rows ; longitudinal spots in external rows in middle of the seg- 

 ments near the spiracles ; transverse spots in median and internal rows 

 on the basal margin of the segments ; the internal rows of spots are 

 wanting on the last two segments, but the last segment has a minute, 

 median, transverse, basal, black spot : tibiae not distinctly sulcate {Hag- 

 lund). Long., 9| ; broad, hardly 7 ; exp. hem. 23 mill. 

 Reported from the Dekhan. 



Genus Antestia, Stal, 



pt. Hem. Afric. i, p. 82, 200,(1864); Ofvers. K. V.-A. Forh., p. 514,' (1855) ; 

 En. Hem. v, p. 66, 95, (1876). 



Head more or less deflexed, iramarginate ; juga and tylus of equal 

 length ; first joint of rostrum not extending beyond the bucculse pos- 

 teriorly ; first joint of antennae not or scarcely reaching the apex of the 

 head, second joint shorter than the third : anterior and anterior-lateral 

 margins of the pronotum distinctly reflexed or callous, elevated : scutel- 

 lum broad or somewhat so at the apex : mesostethium not, or bat slight- . 

 ly, carinate : venter sometimes distinctly spinose at the base (Stdl). 

 Certain virescent species of Antestia are very like Zangis and Plautia, 

 but differ in having the second ventral segment in the middle rather 

 convex and not very prominulous, pronotum strongly margined, and the 

 tibiae above distinctly flat and marginate. 



238. Antestia anchora, Thunberg. 



Cimex anchora, Thunberg, Nov. Ins. Spec, ii, p. 47, t. 2, f. 60, (1783). 



Pentatoma anchora, Dallas, List Hem. i, p. 254, (1851) ; Walker, Cat. Het. ii, p. 

 300 (1867). 



Pentatoma cruciata, Ellenr,, Nat. Tijdsskr. Ned. Ind. xxiv, p. 154, fT862). 



Antestia anchora, Stal, En. Hem. v, p. 96, (1876) ; Distant, A. M. N. H. (5 s.) 

 iii, p. 45, (1879) ; J. A. S. B. xlviii (5), p. 37, (1879). 



Head pale orange-yellow, with a black, oblong, longitudinal spot 

 between the eyes : pronotum pale orange-yellow on the margins and 



