146 E. T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian Rli^-ncliofca. [No. 2, 



Genus Abeona, Stal. 

 En. Hem. v, p. 67, 102, (1876). 



Head very slightly narrowed before the obtuse lateral sinus, very 

 obtusely and broadly rounded at the apex : anterior lateral margins of 

 pronotum sinuate ; obtusely rounded, callous and levigate before the 

 middle, with a reflexed ridge behind the middle, the lateral angles pro- 

 duced, acuminate ; costal margin anteriorly straight, callous and round- 

 ed, thence slightly amplified : ventral furrow short, extended into the 

 fourth segment : tibiae rounded with a continued, narrow, distinct 

 furrow. 



252. Abeona (?) serrata, Distant. 

 Abeona serrata^ Dist., Trans. Ent. Soc, p. 350, (1887). 



Above ochraceous, thickly, darkly and coarsely punctate : connexi- 

 vum reddish ochraceous, with black linear spots near bases and apices 

 of segmental sutures : antennae 4- jointed, 1 — 2 joints dark ochraceous, 

 3 — 4 joints luteous, apical halves blackish ; second joint very long, as long 

 as 3 — 4 joints taken together, 3 — 4 joints sub-equal : juga much longer 

 than the tylus, but notched in front : lateral margins of the pronotum 

 serrate, lateral angles moderately and broadly produced and obtusely 

 bispinose : a small blackish foveate spot on each basal angle of the 

 scutellum ; membrane brownish ochraceous : body beneath with the 

 head, legs, rostrum and sternum ochraceous, the abdomen brownish 

 ochraceous : head with a black linear spot on each side of the base of 

 the antennae : prostethium with some scattered black punctures : rostrum 

 just passing the intermediate coxae : tibias sulcated above : abdomen 

 obtusely sulcate to about the fourth segment (JDist.) . Long, 14 ; exp. 

 angl. pron., 9 mill. 



Reported from Bombay. 



253. Abeona gladiatoria, Stal. 



Abeona gladiatoria, Stal, En. Hem. v, p. 102, (1876). 



2 . A large, remarkable species : very pale sordid flavescent, shin- 

 ing especially beneath, above rather densely, distinctly and equally punc- 

 tured ferruginous-fuscous, beneath to a very great part impunctate ; 

 third joint of the antennae at the apex, the extreme margin and a small 

 lower line on the head before the eyes, also the acute apex of the apical 

 angles of the ventral segments, black : membrane somewhat colourless, 

 basal angle and an apical spot, fuscous : wings infuscate at the apex, 

 dorsum of the abdomen somewhat sanguineous in the middle. Lateral 

 margins of the pronotum callous before the middle, levigate, rounded. 



