1888.] E. T. Atkinson— Notes on Indian Rliyncliota. 175 



the second, which is brown, the 3 — 4 joints bhackish with their bases 

 narrowly brown, fifth dark f ascous with basal third luteous : rostrum 

 luteous, tip blackish : pronotum brassy black, very coarsely punctate, 

 and lightly and irregularly rugulose, with a slightly raised median 

 longitudinal line and irregular luteous markings, which indicate faintly 

 four longitudinal striae, two on each side of the median line ; the crenu- 

 lated portion of the margiji and a small spine behind the eyes, luteous ; 

 lateral angles produced into short, black, obtuse spines, strongly emar- 

 ginate at the apex : scutellum with the basal half brassy black, very 

 thickly punctured ; apical half paler and more sparingly punctured, with 

 a small median basal spot, a large rounded spot in each basal angle, two 

 small irregular and indistinct markings beneath these, and the apex, 

 broadly luteous : corium luteous, somewhat thickly marked and punc- 

 tured with black ; on the underside, at the apex, is a large reddish spot : 

 membrane fuscous, with two large whitish spots, one on the outer and 

 the other on the inner border : abdomen above shining green, very 

 thickly punctured, with a marginal row of three luteous spots, which ap- 

 pear on the margins of alternate segments above and below : body beneath 

 luteous, pectus thickly punctured with brassy black : abdomen with a 

 median, narrow, longitudinal, impunctate area, from which it is sparing- 

 ly punctate halfway to the outer border, which is veiy thickly punctured 

 with brassy black, a large black sub-apical sjDot : legs luteous, with the 

 apices of the femora, and bases and apices of intermediate and posterior 

 tibiog; brassy black ; fore-tibise very widely dilated and strongly punc- 

 tured black ; first tarsi black, rest luteous, with apex black ; tibiae 

 strongly sulcated {Distant). Long, 17 ; exp. lat. ang. pronotum, 9 mill. 



Var. a. Smaller, with the ground-colour brownish instead of brassy 

 black. Allied to G. furcellata, Wolff, from which it differs principally in 

 the shorter and obtuse lateral angles of the pronotum. 



Reported from N. Khasiya Hills, 1500—3000 feet ; Sikkim (mihi). 



285. Canthecona fukcellata, Wolff. 



Cimex ftircellatus, Wolff, Ic. Cim. v, p. 182, t. 18, f. 176 (1801). 



Asopus armiger, Herr.-Schaff., Wanz. Ins, vii, p. 113, 119, f. 711 (184i). 



Canthecona furcellata, Dallas, List. Hem. i, p. 91 (1851) ; Walker, Cat. Het. i, 

 p. 130 (1867) ; Vollenlioven, Faune Ent. I'Arcli. Iiido-Neer. iii, p. 5 (1868) ; Stal, 

 En. Hem. i, p. 42 (1870). 



Antenno3 5-jointed, yellow-ferruginous, joints fuscous at the apex : 

 head porrect, obtuse, impressly-punctured, variegated fuscous and yellow, 

 with a paler longitudinal line ; eyes fuscous : rostrum 4-jointed, ferru- 

 ginous, fuscous at the apex : pronotum greyish, variegated anteriorly 

 with fuscous, posteriorly with very many impressed fuscous punctures, 



