1888.] E. T. Atkinson— JVo^e*^ on Indian RliyiicLota. 14l 



246. Menida vARiPENNis, Westwood. 



Pentatoma varipennis, Westwood, Hope, Cat. Hem. i, p. 43, (1837). 

 Rhaphigaster varipennis, Dallas, List Hem. i, p. 286, (1851). 

 Antestia varipennis, Walker, Cat. Het. ii, p. 281, (1867). 



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

 iii, p. 45, (18^9). 



Brassy, thinly punctured, sliming : head with thi^ee lines (the 

 lateral interrupted), and the orbit of the eyes, anterior and lateral 

 margins of the pronotum and an anterior band interrupted in the middle, 

 scutellum at the base, and an apical moon-shaped spot, whitish : heme- 

 lytra fuscous at the base, black in the middle, with a whitish spot before 

 the membrane which is fuscous ; antennoe and feet, luteous : posterior 

 angles of the pronotum not prominent (Weshv.). 



Head adorned with a spot at the eyes and with three, parallel, 

 longitudinal lines (the lateral lines interrupted posteriorly), flavescent, 

 shining: beneath black: lateral limbus, two rows of spots and tlie 

 ventral spine flavescent. Long, 7J mill. - 



Reported from Java, Tenasserim, Sikkim (mihi). 



247. Menida distincta, Distant. 



Menida distincta, Distant, Trans. Ent. Soc, p. 122, (1879) ; Soient. Res, 2nd 

 Yarkand Miss., p. 6, f. 3, (L879). 



Luteous, covered with strong greenish-black punctures : head lute- 

 ous, with the lateral margins and four longitudinal punctured lines 

 greenish-black ; these lines are much more distinct on the ante-ocular 

 portion of the head : eyes dull ochreous : antennae pilose with the second 

 joint shorter than the third, 4 — 5 joints sub-equal, rather longer than the 

 third ; 1 — 3 joints luteous, apex of the first, and apical half of the third, 

 black ; 4 — 5 joints, black, narrowly luteous at the base : rostrum luteous, 

 apical joints pitchy : pronotum with an anterior submarginal line of 

 greenish-black punctures, and two irregalar transverse ocellated punc- 

 tured marks of the same colour on the anterior portion of the disc : 

 scutellum with a large median sub-basal greenish-black spot, and two 

 small and somewhat indistinct ones of the same colour situated on the 

 lateral margins a little before the apex : membrane transparent, whit- 

 ish : abdomen above black, connexivum luteous, spotted with black : 

 underside of body and legs luteous, sparingly and distinctly punctured 

 with black : tarsi pitchy {Distant). Long, mill. 



R('])ortod From Murrcc, Sind valley. 

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