172 E. T. Atkinson — Notes on hidian Rhynchota. [No. 2, 



279. Cazira verrucosa, Westwood. 



Pentatoma verrucosa, Westwood, Zool. Journ. v, p. 445, t. 22, f. 7 (1835). 



Aso%)US verrucifer, Bnrmeister, Handb. Ent. ii, (i), p. 380 (1835). 



Cazira verrucosa, Bailas, List. Hem. i, p. 82 (1851), excl. syn. Linnoii ; Walker, 

 Cat. Het. i, p. 117 (1867) excl. do. : Stal, En. Hem. i, p. 38 (1870) ; Distant, A. M. 

 N. H. (5s.)iii, p. 45 (1879). 



Rufous-testaceous, variegated with fuscous, punctured, subrotun- 

 date ; posterior sides of pronotum on both sides unispinose ; dorsum 

 with several elevated oblique lines ; scutellum at the base with two 

 large, round, rufous tubercles, and two other small lateral tubercles ; 

 posteriorly narrowed and produced to the apex of the abdomen, pos- 

 terior part concave, sides elevated : corium rufous, punctured with black 

 and the apical membrane produced to a distance beyond the abdomen ; 

 sides of abdomen visible, serrated : antennae longer than the pronotum, 

 2 — 3 joints equally long, also 4 — 5 which are a little longer than the 

 two preceding : femora beneath unispinose, first pair stouter ; the two 

 first tibiae dilated, four posterior simple, rufous, with a white ring. 

 {Westw.). 



Variable in coloration, sometimes fuscous-piceous, sometimes cin- 

 namon-yellow ; pronotum with a longitudinal median wrinkle or ridge, 

 a transverse discoidal wrinkle behind the middle, recurved on both sides, 

 anteriorly with two lateral tubercles and behind the tubercles a less 

 distinct obliquely longitudinal wrinkle which is sometimes confluent 

 with the posterior tubercle ; apical part of scutellum more or less con- 

 cave, apex more or less distinctly emarginate (Stdl). Body with heme- 

 lytra long, lOf— 11 mill. 



Reported from Malabar, Dekkan, India, Assam. The Indian 

 Museum has specimens from Sikkim, Sibsagar (Assam), and Calcutta 

 (mihi). 



280. Cazira internexa. Walker. 



Cazira internexa, Walker, Cat. Het. i, p. 118 (1867). 



Ochraceous, thick, shining, roughly tuberculate : head about one- 

 fifth the breadth of the pronotum ; juga extending somewhat bej^ond 

 the tylus ; rostrum black ; antennae black, 2 — 4 joints successively 

 increasing in length, fifth a little shorter than the fourth : pronotum 

 with prominent obtuse spines : scutellum with a hump on each side at 

 the base and with two slight longitudinal furrows : legs black, stout ; 

 coxae, first femora at base and last towards the base, lutcous ; first tibiae 

 much dilated : membrane black, with a limpid spot on the costa before 



