140 E. T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian Rliynchota. [No. 2, 



244. Menida flavo-varia, Dallas. 



Rhaphig aster fiavo-varius, Dallas, List. Hem. i, p. 288, (1851). 

 Antestia flavo-varia, Walker, Cat. Het. ii, p. 23, (1867). 



Menida flavo-varia, Stal, En. Hem. v. p. 98, (1876) : Distant, A. M. N. H. (5 s) 

 ii, p. 45, (1879). 



Above black, thickly and rather finely punctured : head with a few 

 irregular yellowish points : pronotum with the lateral margins, a spot on 

 the middle of the anterior margin, a corresponding one on the posterior 

 margin, one on each lateral margin, and three or four on the disc, yellow : 

 scutellum with a large cross on the disc, the apex and a spot in each 

 basal angle, yellow : hemelytra with the base of the outer margin, and 

 a spot on the disc, a little behind the middle, yellow ; membrane transpa- 

 rent, with an indistinct, brown, transverse band across the middle : 

 abdomen with the margins banded with yellow and black ; beneath 

 black, with the sides thickly and finely punctured, the lateral margins 

 banded with yellow and black ; basal spine passing the posterior coxae, 

 brown : legs yellow : 'rostrum brownish : antennae pale brown, with the 

 4—5 joints black {Dallas) . Long 7| — 8 mill. 



Reported from N. India, Assam, Sikkim (mihi) . 



245. Menida Formosa, Westwood. 



Pentatoma formosa, Westwood, Hope, Cat. Hem. i, p. 34, (1837). 

 Rhaphigaster spectandus, Stal, Freg. Eug, Eesa Hem., p. 230, (1859). 

 Rhaphigaster alhidens, Ellenr., Nat. Tijds. v. Ned. Ind. xxiv, p. 159, (1862). 

 Menida formosa, Stal, En. Hem., v. p. 99, (1876). 



Brassy fuscous, varied with whitish ; three lines 6n the head an- 

 teriorly, two lines posteriorly, and a dot before the eyes, whitish : pro- 

 notum anteriorly with two transverse rings and a waved median line, 

 scutellum with two basal spots and an apical anchor-shaped spot (some- 

 times connected by a longitudinal median line with the basal spots), 

 pale : two marginal spots on the hemelytra pale ; antenna fuscous, pale 

 at the base ; posterior femora and all the tibiae at the apex, and the tarsi, 

 black (Westw.). Long, 6—7 mill. 



Very like M. varipennis, Westw. : the flavescent lateral lines on 

 the head abbreviated behind the middle ; median line forked posteriorly, 

 sometimes interrupted before the fork; band on the pronotum broad, 

 marked and sometimes divided into two by a confused row of black dots • 

 venter flavescent, sides spotted fuscous, median streak sometimes fus- 

 cous ; yellow marking on the dorsum variable (Stal). 



Reported from China, Malacca, Sumatra, Burma, Sikkim (mihi). 



