1888.] E. T. Atkinson— ^0^65 on Indian Rhynchota. 139 



margin oblique and rounded ; membrane with longitudinal veins : abdo- 

 m.en and sternum unarmed : legs rather long ; tarsi^S-jointed, the basal 

 and apical about equal {Dallas) . 



242. Apines concinna, Dallas. 



Apines concinna, Dallas, List Hem. i, p. 232, t. 9, f. 2, (1851) ; "Walker, Cat. Het. 

 ii, p. 283, (1867) ; Stal, En. Hem. v, p. 97, (1876). 



d*. Shining black, thickly and finely punctured : pronotum with 

 the lateral margins narrowly edged with white, and with a large somewhat 

 ovate yellow spot on the middle of the disc : scutellum with a large yellow 

 spot in each basal angle, and a large spot of the same colour on the apex ; 

 across the disc, close behind the two basal spots, runs an orange yellow 

 line, which forms a kind of anchor, with a short longitudinal line run- 

 ning between the two spots : corium with the basal portion of the outer 

 margin whitish, and with a transverse white band near the apex ; 

 membrane blackish : abdomen with the margins of the 3 — 5 segments 

 white, interrupted with black at the sutures : pectus with a large, trian- 

 gular white spot in each of the posterior angles : coxse and base of the 

 femora white ; apices of the femora black ; anterior tibiee yellowish 

 white, with a black line down the inside ; intermediate tibise white, with 

 the base, and a minute line at the apex, black ; posterior tibiae white 

 with the base and apex black ; tarsi black : rostrum black : antennee 

 black, with the second joint testaceous (Dallas). Long, 6J mill. 



Reported from India, Bombay, Hard war (mihi.). 



Genus Menida, Motsch. 

 E'tud. X, p. 23, (1861) ; Stal, En. Hem. v, p. 66, 97, (1876). 

 Differs from Antestia, Stal, in having the second ventral segment 

 with a gradually compressed, porrect spine, almost laminate at the apex, 

 or with a compressed tubercle, prominulous forwards. In Antestia there 

 is neither spine nor tubercle.. 



243. Menida Signoretii, Stal. 

 Menida Signoretii, Stal, En. Hem. v. p. 98, (1876). 



Very like and closely allied to M. maculiventris, Dallas, differs only 

 in having the pronotum at the lateral intramarginal row of dots narrowly 

 smooth, and flavescent, entire anterior margin callous and smooth 

 not punctured behind the eyes, and head somewhat shorter (StdlL 

 Long, 7^ ; broad, 4 mill. 



Reported from India (Africa ?). 



