1888.] E. T. Afckinsou — Notes on Indian Rhyncliota. 149 



257. CusPicoNA SMARAGDiNA, Walker. 

 Cuspicona smaragdina, Walkei^, Cat. Het. ii, p. 380 (1867). 



Deep green, elongate-oval, roughly punctured, luteous and bordered 

 with pale green beneath : head on each side with a luteous streak, v/hich 

 includes a red streak; tylus hardly extending beyond the juga : rostrum 

 green, extending to the second ventral segment; tip black: antennae 

 black, slender, green towards the base, rather more than half the length 

 of the body ; first joint extending nearly to the front of the head ; third 

 much longer than the second, much shorter than the fourth ; fifth a 

 little shorter than the fourth : pronotum mostly smooth in front ; pos- 

 terior angles forming two long acute spines, which are slightly ascending 

 and inclined forwards ; a luteous dot on the hinder base of each spine : 

 pectoral ridge shallow : legs pale green : membrane cinereous (Walker). 

 Long, 14| — 15 mill. 



Reported from Burma : the Indian Museum has specimens from 

 Assam. 



Add : — G. antica, VoU., Versl. Ak. Amst. Naturskun. ii (2), p. 188, 

 (1868), from India. 



Genus Rhynchocorts, Westwood. 



Pt., Hope, Cat. Hem. i, p. 29 (1837) : — Rhynchocovis, Am. & Serv., Hist. Nat. Ins. 

 Hera. p. 152 (1813) ; Dallas, List Hem. i, p. 198 (1851) ; Walker, Cat. Het. ii, p. 392 

 (1867) : Stal, Ofvers. K. Y.-A. Forh., p. 521 (1867) ; p. 637 (1870) ; En. Hem. v, 

 p. 68, 103 (1876). 



Body oblong-ovate, attenuated posteriorly : tylus a little shorter 

 than the juga : rostrum 4- jointed, very long, reaching almost the apex of 

 the abdomen, first joint very small, remaining three nearly equal : an- 

 tennae entirely, or to a very great part, black, elongate, very slender, 5- 

 jointed, first joint very short, 2 — 4 joints gradually increasing in length, 

 fifth as long as the third : pronotum broad, within the entirely somewhat 

 elevated or callous anterior margin, furnished with a simple continued 

 row of punctures ; basal margin sinuate, posterior angles distinct, covering 

 basal angles of scutellum, lateral angles much produced : apical angles of 

 the abdominal segments prominulous in a large or somewhat large tooth : 

 scutellum large, triangular, covering almost half of the abdomen, rounded 

 at the apex : membrane with 9 straight longitudinal veins : feet slender : 

 prostethium unarmed : mesostethium much ridged, produced before 

 the prostethium : metastethium somewhat elevated in the middle, pos- 

 teriorly bifid. Type, 11. liimwralitiy Thunb. 

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