1885.] E. T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian Rhynchota. 83 



B. a. Posterior process of thorax distinctly curved towards tho 

 base : exterior discoidal area of corium petiolate : L. curvis^iiius, L. 

 pallipes. 



B. h. Posterior process of thorax straight, snbundate, reaching 

 the apical part of the scutellum, discoidal area of corium sessile, gradually 

 much narrowed towards the base : L. varius, L, auriculatus, (Stal). 



12. Leptobelus scutellaris, Fabricius. 



Centrotus scutellaris, Fabr., Syst. Rhyng, p. 19 (1803) : Germar, Silb. Rev. Ent. 

 iii. p. 257 (1835): Fairmaire, A. S. E. F. (2 ser.) iv. p. 510 (1845) : Walker, List 

 Horn. B. M. ii. p, 602 (1851). 



Stal, in index to Hem. Fabr. (ii. p. 115), places a query after this 

 species ; and all that seems to be known is that it is reported from 

 India. 



13. Leptobelus paria, Fairmaire. 



Centrotus paria, Fairmaire, A. S. E. F. (2 ser.) iv, p. 513 : (1846) : Walker, 

 List Horn. B. M. ii. p. 609 (1851). 



Ferruginous : eyes projecting : horns a little divaricate, slender, 

 acute, compressed : posterior process very slender, bordered on each 

 side by the scutellum which is broad and white, as long as the abdomen : 

 sides of the pectus wliite : feet yellowisb : tegmina transparent {Fairm.} 

 Long 6 millims. 



Reported from India. 



Genus Xiphop^us, Stal. 



Hem. Afric. iv. p. 87, 91 (1866) ; Ofvers. K. Y.-A. Forh. p. 281 (1869). 



Frons prominulous below in the sbape of a tubercle ; thorax cornuted 

 above the lateral angles ; posterior process much, distant from the 

 scutellum and abdomen, much, curved from the base or geniculated near 

 the base ; beneath, armed witb small spines, at least towards the base, 

 not dilated in tbe middle beneath ; tegmina with five apical and two 

 discoidal areas, none of which are petiolated : wings with four apical 

 areas : tibiae simple or very slightly dilated (Stal). 



14. XiPHOP^us PiLOSus, Walker. 



Centrotus pilosus, Walker, List Hom. B. M. ii. p. 606 (1851). 

 Xiphopceus pilosus, Stal, Ofvers. K. V.-A. Forh. p. 285 (1869). 



Ferruginous, very thickly clothed with sordid white down : head 

 punctured, short, transversely subfusifoim, a little narrower than the 

 thorax, with a metallic lustre in front, nearly twice as broad as long : 

 face small : thorax punctured, deep in front, partly black, rising almost 

 vertically from the head, slightly ridged, shoulders obtusely angular, 



