138 E. T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian Rhyncliota. [N"©. 2, 



pronotum pale, four spots anteriorly, and posteriorly six spots, black : 

 scutellum black, sides pale at the base, a cruciform patch in the middle 

 and at the apex pale : hemelytra pale, tinted ferruginous, with three black 

 spots : wings fuscous : beneath flavescent, sides spotted black (Fahr), 

 The outer spots of the anterior row on the pronotum are sometimes 

 obsolete. Long, 9 mill. 



Reported from Java, Burma, Bengal. The Indian Museum has 

 specimens from Calcutta, Sikkim (mihi). 



241. Antestia modificata. Distant. 

 Antestia modificata, Dist., Trans. Ent. Soc. p. 350, t. 12, f. 4, (1887). 



Ochraceous, spotted with bluish black,above sparingly punctate : head 

 luteouS; margins of tylusand margins of juga in front of the eyes, also two 

 spots at base, bluish-black : eyes brownish : antennee bluish black : prono- 

 tum with eight bluish-black spots, the six largest arranged in two rows on 

 the disc, and a smaller elongate spot in each basal angle : corium with four 

 bluish-black spots, one at the base, one at the apex, and two median : 

 membrane pale hyaline with a large bluish-black subquadrate spot at the 

 base : body beneath pale luteous, sternum spotted with bluish-black, and 

 abdomen with sutural fasciae and lateral spots of the same colour : legs 

 luteous ; femora with a blackish spot near their apices : antennae with 

 second joint shorter than the third, 4 — 5 joints longest (Dist.). Long, 7 

 mill. 



Reported from Sikkim, where it is rather common (mihi.). 



Genus Apines, Dallas. 



List Hem. i, p. 231, (1851) ; Walker, Cat. Het. ii, p. 283, (1867) ; Stal, En. 

 Hem. V, p. 97, (1876). 



Head deflexed, about as broad as long, rounded at the apex, the 

 tylus as long as the juga : eyes prominent : ocelli distant but not placed 

 very near the eyes : antenniferous tubercles very small, entirely con- 

 cealed by the lateral margins of the head ; antennae more than half the 

 length of the body, 5-jointed ; basal joint short, not reaching the apex of 

 the head ; second joint about the length of the first, much shorter than 

 the third ; the 3 — 4 joints about equal ; fifth a little longer : rostrum 

 scarcely reaching the posterior coxae ; basal joint reaching the base of 

 the head, second longest, third shorter than the fourth, which is very 

 little shorter than the second : body oblong-ovate, somewhat elongate : 

 pronotum very little broader than long, much broader behind than 

 before : scutellum somewhat triangular, but with the apex rather broad 

 and rounded : corium rather longer than the membrane with its apical 



