180 E. T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian Rliyncliota. [No. 2, 



obsoletely, sinuated. Head scarcely narrowed before the lateral sinuses, 

 distinctly punctured, smooth posteriorly and on the tylus, punctures on 

 the tylus arranged in two rows of groups, and, on the posterior part, 

 densely arranged in six rows of groups ; juga with fuscous limbi, furnished 

 in the middle with a somewhat smooth streak : lower side smooth, adorned 

 with a lateral, punctulate, fuscous, streak : second joint of the antennae 

 shorter than the third : rostrum stout, piceous, first joint weakly sordid 

 flavescent : pronotum rather densely punctured, punctures on the 

 posterior part more obscure, anterior lateral margins slightly sinuate in 

 the middle, obtusely crenulate before the sinus, lateral angles much 

 produced outwards, acute, above obtusely carinate : scutellum and 

 hemelytra densely and distinctly punctured, the scutellum fui'nished 

 behind the middle with a very obsolete wrinkle or ridge ; punctures on 

 pectus and venter in groups ; the spot on the pectus inclosing the 

 furrow from the odoriferous orifices, fuscous : the dorsum of the abdo- 

 men, black- violaceous, punctulate ; segments of the connexivum spotted 

 black on the basal and apical angles, apical angles of the 2 — 6 ventral 

 segments prominulous in a small tooth ; spot on the sixth segment and 

 the aual segment, black : median streak on the venter, smooth : no 

 stridulatory spots : posterior femora obsoletely varied fuscous : furrow 

 on tibiae obscurely subsanguineous at the bottom (Stdl). Long, 15 j 

 broad, 7 ; breadth of pronotum, 10 mill. 

 Reported from India. 



Genus Podisus, Herrich-Schaffer. 



Wanz. Ins. ix, p. 296, 337 (1853) ; Stal, K. V.-A. Forh., p. 497 (1867) ; 1. c, (3), 

 p. 40(1872); En. Hem. i, p 48 (1870): Distant, Biol. Cen. Am. Hem. i, p. 36 

 (1879) -.—Asopus, Fieb., Eur. Hem. p. 348 (1861). 



Stal (En. Hem. 1. c.) distributes the species assigned by him to this 

 genus amongst the subgenera — Troilus, Apateticus, Apoecilus, Podisus, 

 and Tylospilus, of which only Troilus appears to occur in India. Sub- 

 sequently, he raises Troilus to a genus with Asopus luridus, Fabr., as the 

 type. Venter without stridulatory spots, spinose at the base : first pair of 

 femora unarmed : juga rounded at the apex, distinctly longer than the 

 tylus : bucculoe very slightly elevated, gradually evanescent hindwards : 

 frena extended beyond the middle of the scutellum. 



291. Podisus luridus, Fabricius. 



Cimex luridus, Fahr., Sjst. 'Elnt. p. 701 (1775); Spec. Ins. ii, p. 345 (1781); 

 Mant. Ins. ii, p. 283 (1787) ; Gmelin, ed. Syst. Nat. i (4), p. 2136 (1788) ; ? WolflP, 

 Ic. Cini. p. 130, t. 13, f. 130 (1804). 



Cime.): elector, Fabr., Ent. Syst. iv, p. 98 (1794) ; Syst. Rhyng-. p. 160 (1803). 



