1888.] E. T. Atkinson— ^o^es 07i Indicm Rhynchota. 179 



beliind, wliich give them the appearance of being emarginate at the 

 apex : scutellum with a small luteous spot in each basal angle : corium 

 with purplish reflections towards the apex ; membrane fuscous with a 

 large whitish spot on the outer and the inner border (size of these spots 

 variable) : body beneath luteous, punctured and mottled with brown ; 

 intermediate femora testaceous and the tibiae brownish, with apex and 

 tarsi dark fuscous (Distant). d, long, 11, exp. lat. angles pron. 6^ 

 mill. ; 2 J long, 14, exp. lat. angles pron. 9 mill. 



The 2 varies in having the luteous spots above much more obscure 

 and the legs luteous. 



Reported from Sadiya (Assam), 350 feet. 



Genus Gltpsus, Dallas. 



List Hem. i, p. 93 (1851) ; Stal, Hem. Afrio. i, p. 62, 63 (1864) ; En. Hem. i, 

 p. 47 (1870) : Walker, Cat. Het. i, p. 132 (1867). 



Body ovate : head flattish, juga a little longer than the tylus, some- 

 what contiguous at the apex, bucculae moderately elevated : antennee 

 about half as long as the body, the second joint a little longer than the 

 third, the fourth about equal to the second, the fifth shorter than the 

 third : rostrum reaching the posterior coxse, stout, the two apical joints 

 of equal length, each a little shorter than the second : anterior lateral 

 margins of pronotum crenulate before the middle, the lateral angles 

 strongly spinose : scutellum rather broad, the posterior part narrowed, 

 hindwards, rounded at the apex ; frena extended a little beyond the 

 middle of the scutellum : sternal ridge broad, depressed, furrowed : 

 venter, in 6^ , without stridulatory sericeous spots, second segment armed 

 at the base with a depressed tubercle, slightly prominulous forwards, 

 sinuated at the apex : membrane with nine veins : first femora armed 

 beneath with a spine towards the apex ; anterior tibige quadrangular, 

 not dilated exteriorly ; inner spine rather large : tarsi 8- jointed, second 

 joint very small, basal joint as long as the other two taken together. 



290. Gltpsus fusoispinus, Stal. 



Glypsus fuscispinus, Stal, En. Hem. i, p. 47 (1870). 

 (5^ . Weakly greyish-flavescent, distinctly punctured fuscous-ferru- 

 ginous ; antennae weakly ferruginous : four very minute spots arranged 

 in a transverse row before the middle, and the lateral angles of the 

 pronotum, also a small impression on tlie basal angles of the scutellum, 

 black: membrane sordid vinaceous, apical spot fascoiis. Stature almost 

 of G. conspictiufij Westw., but the lateral angles of the pronotum are 

 gradually acaniinated, posteriorly near the apex, not, unless very 



