1888.] E. T. Atkinson— jVo^es on In<Uan Rliyncliota. 147 



having the lateral part produced in a gradually narrowed process, slender 

 at the apex, and acuminated, turning outwards and slightly forwards : 

 pronotum marked by a black-violaceous line within the smooth part of 

 the lateral margins ; anterior margin of lateral process carinately-olev- 

 ated and black- violaceous, corium punctured violaceous anteriorly with- 

 in the costal margin : scutellum marked on the basal angles with a small 

 brassy-green spot : pectus near the coxoe with three punctiform black 

 spots ; pro- and meta-stethium punctured posteriorly : venter finely 

 aciculate, with a very obtuse, levigate median ridge : connexivum punc- 

 tured violaceous-fuscous, the extreme margin levigate {Stdl). 9 , Long, 

 21 ; broad, 10 ; exp. horns of pron. 14, mill. 

 Reported from India. 



Div. Rhynchocoraria, Stal. 



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



a. h. as in Hoplistoderaria, (p. 66) . 



c. Mesostethial ridge and metastethium highly elevated, briefly 

 continued, the ridge extended anteriorly in a free lamina produced be- 

 tween and generally to a distance before the first pair of coxce, anteriorly 

 generally high : basal tubercle of the venter rather strongly elevated, 

 anteriorly angulated, quiescent in the posterior sinus of the metaste- 

 thium, the apical angles of the sixth abdominal segment generally acute, 

 or produced in a long tooth ; sixth ventral segment, in $ , strongly sinuated 

 in the middle before the anal valvules, the median part of the segment 

 therefore generally shorter than the lateral part : tibiae obtusely rounded 

 and generally without a furrow, very rarely furnished with a narrow 

 upper furrow : posterior margin of the pronotum generally sinuated. 



Genus Cuspicona, Dallas. 



List Hem. i, 296, (1851); Walkci, Cat. Het. ii, p. 2, (1867) : Stal, Ofvers. K. 

 V.-A. Forh., p. 521, (1867); p. 637, (1870) ; En. Hem. v, p. 68, 102, (1876). 



Body obovate or oval : head moderate, tylus as long as the juga : 

 ocelli minute, placed near the inner angle of the eyes ; rostrum moderate, 

 second joint about as long as or longer than the third ; antenna? 5- joint- 

 ed, about as long as the head and the pronotum taken together, basal 

 joint shortest, not reaching the anterior margin of the head, second joint 

 longer than the third, 4 — 5 joints nearly equal, as long or longer than tho 

 second, sometimes the fourth, sometimes the fifth longest : pronotum 

 not transversely impressed, posterior angles not or but very slightly 

 produced, obtuse : plate of the mesostethial ridge reaching but not 

 produced beyond the anterior margin of the prostethium : tibia) rounded, 

 only to^yards the apex flai tisli or somewhat furrowed ; tarsi 3-jointcd. 



