I 



1885.] E. T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian Rliyncliota. 89 



Ions : ocelli twice as distant from each other as from the eyes : 

 thorax moderately convex, unarmed on both sides anteriorly, gra- 

 dually narrowed behind the slightly prominulous lateral angles and 

 gradually passing into the posterior process ; the posterior process 

 entire on both sides at the base, not sinuated, gradually acuminated, 

 straight, slightly deflexed at the apex, equalling the apex of clavus, 

 somewhat highly ridged, much depressed in the middle. No complete 

 scutellum : mesonotum furnished on both sides at the apex with a spinule 

 turning backwards. Tegmina short, not extending beyond the apex of 

 the abdomen, gradually somewhat amplified towards the apex which is 

 obliquely rounded, opaque and coriaceous at the base ; exterior vein of 

 clavus united with the commissure at some distance beyond the middle ; 

 corium emitting the ulnar and radial veins from the base, ulnar vein 

 somewhat forked before the middle of the corium, two discoidal areolas 

 or, if the areola behind the fork of the ulnar vein be included, three ; 

 the exterior discoidal areola stylated, stylus separating the interior 

 (or intermediate) discoidal areola from the first apical area, five apical 

 areas. Wings with three apical areolas. Feet moderate, tibiae prisma- 

 tic, anterior a Httle depressed : anterior trochanters unarmed within. 



A curious genus allied to Gargara, Stal ; but very distinct in having 

 the thorax behind the lateral angles gradually passing into the posterior 

 process which has no sinus at the base ; there is no produced complete 

 scutellum, but the mesonotum is armed at the apex with two very distant 

 spines (Stal). 



22. CoccoSTERPHUS MiNUTUS, Fabricius. 



Memhracis minuta, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. Snppt. p. 514 (1798). 



Centrotus minutus, Fabricius, Syst. Rhyng. p. 22 (1803). 



Scaphula (?) minuta, Fairmaire, A. S. E. F. (2 ser.) iv. p. 495 (1846) j Walker, 



List Horn. B. M ii. p. 589 (1851). 

 Coccosterphus minutus, Stal, Hem. Fabr. ii, p. 51 (1869). 



Minute : head and thorax black, scabrous with elevated dots : tho- 

 rax subunarmed, produced posteriorly, attenuated, a little elevated before 

 the apex, as long as the abdomen : tegmina obscurely whitish, somewhat 

 spotted fuscous, black at the base ; wings shorter, hyaline : body black 

 (Fabr.). Black, flavescent-greyish-sericeous : head, thorax and tegmina 

 remotely sprinkled with somewhat large granules : thorax furnished with 

 a ridge or keel, obsolete anteriorly, very elevated in the posterior pro- 

 cess, in its medium depressed part interrupted : tegmina palely greyish- 

 flavescent, subpellucid, obsoletely dotted with white, veins here and there 

 infuscate, granules and almost third basal part, black ; black part punc- 

 tured ; ulnar vein running through this part greyish-flavescent (Stal). 

 d* . Body long SJ : broad 2 millims. 

 Reported from E, India, Tranquebar. 



