156 E. T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian Eliyncliota. [No. 2, 



with a median longitudinal luteous line, the lateral margins with three 

 13rominent spines, the lateral angles broadly produced and somewhat 

 obtusely spined posteriorly : membrane pale fuscous : body beneath 

 brownish and darkly punctate : legs ochraceous, mottled and sprinkled 

 brownish ; sublateral margins of the sternum bronzy : rostrum ochrace- 

 ous, apex pitchy, extending beyond the last coxae {List.). Long, 17: 

 exp. angl. pron. 8 mill. 



Heported from Sikkim. 



Genus Prionochilus, Dallas. 



Bhaphigaster, subg. Prionochilus, Trans. Ent. Soc. v, p. 191 (1819) ; Prionoc.liilus, 

 Stal, Ofv. K. v.- A. Forh., p. 519 (1867) ; En. Hem. v, p, 69, 107 (1876). Includes 

 Lelia, Walker, Cat. Het. ii, p. 406(1867). 



Head flat above, narrowed anteriorly, the juga passing the tylus, 

 and united in front of it ; apex of head rounded, with a very slight 

 notch in the middle ; eyes rather small, very slightly prominent, touch- 

 ing the anterior margin of the pronotum ; ocelli small, situated rather 

 behind the eyes, and nearer to them than to one another ; antennae 5- 

 jointed, about half as long as the body ; first joint short, not reaching 

 the anterior margin of the head ; the other joints gradually increasing 

 in length towards the apex ; 4 — 5 joints thickest, fourth slightly com- 

 pressed ; rostrum 4- jointed, reaching the base of the ventral spine, the 

 first joint short, as long as the head, inclosed entirely in a groove, which 

 reaches the base of the head ; 2 — 3 joints equal, longer than the first ; 

 fourth as long as the first : pronotum declined anteriorly ; the anterior 

 margin strongly emarginate, almost in a semicircle, for the reception of 

 the head ; the lateral angles very prominent, acute and curved forwards, 

 their points reaching beyond the line of the anterior angles ; the antero- 

 lateral margins are strongly serrated, and there is a distinct tooth 

 behind each lateral angle : scutellum long, passing the middle of the 

 abdomen, the apex rounded and narrowed ; membrane reaching beyond 

 the apex of the abdomen, with eight longitudinal veins, of which the 

 3 — 5 from the inner margin spring from a basal cell ; the 6 — 7 are united 

 at the base and the eighth is very short : abdomen extending a little 

 beyond the hemelytra on each side ; beneath strongly ridged, with a 

 strong basal spine, which extends forwards as far as the middle of the 

 space between the intermediate and first pairs of legs : vulvar apparatus 

 as in Mlia'phig aster, &c. : mesostethium with a slight ridge in the middle : 

 legs rather slender, the posterior longest : tibiae grooved on the 

 outside, and fringed with small stiff hairs, especially towards the apex : 

 tarsi 3-jointed, pilose, basal and terminal joints equal ; second very 

 short : claws and pulvilli moderate {Dallas). 



