1888.] E. T. AiMiison— Notes on Indian Rliyncliota. 151 



serrated, denticulated or crenulated, acute or somewhat so : lateral 

 angles of pronotum produced or prominulous ; tibiae above distinctly sul- 

 cated or flat and margined. 



Genus Tropicoeis, Halm. 



Wanz. Ins. ii, p. 52 (1834) : Stal, Ofvers. K. V.-A. Fiirh., p. 518, (1867) ; En. 

 Hem. V, p. 69, 105 (1876). 



Body elongate-ovate : head gradually narrowed, with the lateral 

 margins anteriorly more or less rounded, entire, not sinuate ; juga and 

 tylus about of equal length ; antennae 5- jointed, almost three-fourths 

 the length of the body, the first joint shortest, the second somewhat 

 shorter than the fourth or fifth, the third longest, the fourth as long 

 as the obtusely rounded fifth : rostrum 4-jointed, second joint longest, 

 last shortest ; ocelli in a line with the eyes, small : posterior angles of 

 pronotum, acutely produced ; anterior margin of lateral process gradually 

 rounded, or forming an angle towards the apex : hemelytra with the 

 costal margin of the corium anteriorly straight, thence slightly rounded, 

 a straight longitudinal vein on the inner margin, and a similar from 

 the same source at the base, close to the outer margin ; membrane 

 with a broad limbus and some 5 — 7 veins : base of venter sometimes 

 unarmed, sometimes tuberculate, and sometimes very briefly spinose. 



260. Tropicoris l^viventris, Stal. 



Tropicoris Iceviventris, Stal, En. Hem. v, p. 105 (1876). 



9 . Pale flavescent, above distinctly punctured black ; punctures 

 on anterior part of pronotum and on anterior part of costal area aenes- 

 cent : membrane and wings sordid hyaline : dorsum of abdomen weakly 

 croceous : connexivum fuscescent-testaceous, punctured (two apical seg- 

 ments excepted), segments with a pale marginal spot : venter levigate, 

 spiracula black. As to form of pronotum and stature, somewhat like 

 T. rujipesy Linn., from which it differs in its larger size, paler colour, 

 finer punctuation on the dorsum, entire juga distant, lateral process of 

 pronotum shorter, more obtuse, not reflexed, and anterior lateral margins 

 very slightly sinuated, scutellum also in the apical part punctured black, 

 in the marking on the dorsum of the abdomen and the connexivum, the 

 venter impunctate, pro- and meta-stethium posteriorly remotely sprin- 

 kled with concolorous punctures, not black, corium sprinkled with small, 

 somewhat rounded, impunctate spots : feet not marked : rostrum reach- 

 ing the base of the venter, second joint somewhat longer than the third : 

 anterior angles of pronotum sub-prorainulous outwards in a small 

 tooth : furrow of the orifices longer about by half than the first joint of 



