176 E. T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian Rhyncliota. [No. 2, 



with a small anterior longitudinal yellow line ; lateral margin serrulate, 

 posteriorly on both sides with a bifid fuscous sjDine of wliich the pos- 

 terior tooth is the shorter : scutellum greyish with numerous impressed 

 fuscous punctures, obscurely at the base with three minute rufous 

 points ; a longitudinal line and the apex, paler : hemelytra greyish with 

 impressed fuscous punctures and an obsolete fuscous median line ; mem- 

 brane fuscous with two pale opposite marginal spots before the apex : 

 abdomen above black, margin prominulous, spotted yellow, beneath 

 testaceous, with a row of very minute fuscous spots on both sides, 

 margin somewhat serrate, sternum somewhat porrect anteriorly : pectus 

 testaceous, spotted fuscous : anus obtuse, bidentate : feet testaceous ; 

 first femora with a very acute tooth before the apex ; tarsi fuscous 

 {Wolff.). Long, 15—16 mill. 



Reported from India, Bombay, Tenasserim, Berharapur, Arrah 

 (mihi). 



Genus Audinetia, Ellenrieder. 



Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Ind. xxiv, p. 136 (1862) : Cimev suhg. Aitdinetia, Stal, 

 Of vers. K. V.-A. Forh., p. 496 (1867) ; En. Hem. i, p. 45 (1870). 



Head oblong ; juga a very little longer than the tylus : second joint 

 of antennse long, 3 — 5 joints nearly equal (fourth longer) : eyes small, 

 globose, not very prominent : ocelli distinct, close to the pronotum, as 

 far from each other as from the eyes : pronotum declined forwards, 

 convex behind, the anterior margin narrower than the head, sinuated, 

 posterior angles very prominent, transverse, with a bifid spine of which 

 the anterior terminal point is very acute, the posterior somewhat short : 

 hemelytra and abdomen rather elongate, attenuated hindwards : the 

 sides of the abdomen extending a little beyond the hemelytra : mem- 

 brane albescent, with 7 — 9 veins, longer than the abdomen : venter from 

 the median line inclined convexly towards the sides ; ventral tooth 

 short, not extending beyond the insertion of the last pair of feet : ros- 

 trum scarcely reaching the posterior feet, its joints almost equal, but 

 the second long, the last short : femora lobust, unarmed ; first tibise 

 prismatic, unispinose on the lower (inner) side ; tarsi robust, first joint 

 long, second very small, hardly visible. Distinguished from Arma^ 

 Hahn, by the ventral tooth ; from Canthecona, Am. & Serv., by the first 

 femora being simple, and from others by the spine on the inner side of 

 the first tibiae (Ellenr.). Stal separates it from Ganthecona by its having 

 the stridulatory spots in c? very large, extended through the 8 — 6 ventral 

 segments : first femora beneath with a small, sometimes very obsolete, 

 tubercle. 



