152 E. T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian Rliyncliota. [No. 2, 



the anteimaB : bead posteriorly with a lateral spot, and in the middle 

 with a larger levigate, somewhat quadrate spot, which has a double row 

 oi' punctures in the middle (Stdl). Long, 18; broad, 10 mill. 

 Reported from India, 



261. Tropicoris punctipes, Stal. 



Tropicoris punctipes, Stal, En. Hem. v, p. 106 (1876). 

 d" . Above lurid and rather densely punctured fuscous ; beneath 

 with the antennae, rostrum and feet pale sordid flavescent, the feet 

 sprinkled fuscous : pectus and venter remotely punctured fuscous ; 

 median ridge on the venter broad, very obtusely rounded, levigate : 

 membrane infuscate : dorsum of abdomen sanguineous : connexivum 

 punctured, fuscous, externally aenescent-fuscous, segments marked with 

 a sordid flavescent median band : ventral spiracula black. c? . with the 

 genital segment broadly and rather deeply sinuated at the apex, apical 

 margin prominulous on both sides at the sinus in a small dentiform 

 tubercle, apical angles of the sixth segment of the abdomen somewhat 

 obtuse, not rounded. Stature and punctuation like T. t^ufipes, Linn, 

 from which it differs in the lurid colour of the entire dorsum, apex of 

 scutellum concolorous and punctured, juga distant, anterior angles of 

 pronotum not so much prominulous forwards, lateral process truncated 

 at the apex, or somewhat sinuately truncated, apical angles equal, basal 

 spine of venter somewhat slender, somewhat prominulous before the 

 metastethium, rostrum somewhat shorter, reaching somewhat the apex 

 of the second segment of the venter, also in the form of the genital 

 segment in c?. Furrow of the orifices short, shorter than the first joint 

 of the antennae : head posteriorly levigate with a spot at the eyes : second 

 joint of the rostrum distinctly somewhat longer than the third (Stdl), 

 Long, 11 ; broad, 7 mill. 

 Reported from India. 



Genus Agathocles, Stal. 

 En. Hem. v, p. 69, 106 (1876). 



Head broad, somewhat short, broadly rounded at the apex, lateral 

 margins posteriorly sinuate, parallel before the sinus, rounded at the 

 apex ; second joint of rostrum much longer than the third ; anterior margin 

 of the lateral process of the pronotum straight up to the apex ; entirely 

 densely and distinctly punctured, anterior margin narrowly smooth be- 

 hind the vertex : venter rather strongly convex. In Amyntor, Stal, the 

 head is long, triangular, gradually narrowed, lateral margins anteriorly 

 abruptly sinuate : anterior lateral margins of pronotum posteriorly 

 straight : venter unarmed at the base. 



