1888.] E. T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian Rliynchota. 137 



somewhat bifid, pitcliy black patch occupying nearly the whole of the disc ; 

 the basal portion smooth and impunctate, the disc rather strongly punctured, 

 the punctures becoming finer and closer towards the apex, which is 

 very finely and thickly punctured, the lateral margins punctured with 

 black : hemelytra orange, with the inner part of the coriaceous portion 

 yellow, thickly and rather strongly punctured towards the base, more 

 finely towards the apex, with an impunctate space on the disc behind 

 the middle ; with a large patch, posteriorly deeply emarginate, on the 

 disc about the middle, and the apical margin pitchy black ; membrane 

 dark brown : wings brown, semitransparent, with the apex darker '• 

 abdomen above red, very thickly and finely punctured, with the margins 

 yellow ; the margins of the second and of the base of the third seg- 

 ments are black. Body beneath pale yellow, smooth, and shining : 

 venter impunctate, with a large black spot on each side of each seg- 

 ment except the last, which has a large square spot of the same colour 

 in the middle ; the lateral margins of the second segment are black : 

 pectus witha lineof fine blackish punctures within the margins of each seg- 

 ment and with two rows of large black spots on each side, of which the 

 inner row consists of three spots, one in each segment, the outer of four, 

 of which the fourth spot is placed close to the posterior angle of the 

 metastethium : legs orange, with the base of the femora testaceous, and 

 with a more or less distinct brown or blackish ring near the apex of the 

 femora : rostrum brown, with the apex black, and the basal joint pale 

 orange : antennae black, with the two basal joints orange {Dallas). 

 Body long, 11—12 mill. 



Reported from India, Burma : the Indian Museum has specimens 

 from Arakan, Sikkim (mihi). 



240. Antestia cruciata, Fabricius. 



Cimex cruciatus, Fabr., Syst. Ent., p. 714, (1775) ; Spec. Ins. ii., p. 358, (1781) ; 

 Mant. Ins. ii, p. 295, (1787) Ent. Syst. iv., p. 119 (1794) ; Syst. Rhyng. p. 174 (1803); 

 Wolfe, Ic. Cim. ii, p. 62, £. 59, (1801) : Herr. Schiife., Wanz. Ins. v, p. 63, t. 164 f. 506, 

 (1839). 



Pentatoma cruciata, Am, and Serv., Hist. Nat. Ins. Hem. p. 132, (1843) : Dallas 

 List Hem. i, p. 254, (1851) ; Walker, Cat. Het. ii, p. 300, (1867). 



Antestia cruciata, Stal, Ofvers. K. V.-A. Forh., p. 630, (1870) ; En. Hem. v, p. 

 96, (1876). 



This species varies much, sometimes rufescent or croceous, some- 

 times flavescent or virescent, spots on the upper side larger or smaller, 

 black or olivaceous-virescent, pectus and venter on the anterior ano-les 

 of the segments marked with a blackish spot or immaculate. Antennae 

 fuscous : head pale, with two curved black lines, the sides brunneous : 



