No. I.] Rhjnchota, 3 



Leptocorisa chinensis, Dallas, List Hem. ii, p. 483 (1852) ; Walker, 

 Cat. Het. iv,p. 172 (1871). China. 



Var. b.— Leptocorisa bengalensis, Westw., Hope Cat. Hem. ii, p. 18 

 (1842) ; Stal, En. Hem. iii, p. 87 (1873). Bengal. 



Leptocorisa maculiventris, Dallas, 1. c., p. 484 (1852) ; Walker, 1. c, 

 p. 172 (1871)— (?) 



Leptocorisa varicornis, Dallas, 1. c., p. 484 (1852) ; Walker, 1. c, p. 

 172 (1871) ; Stal, En. Hem. iii, p. 86 (1873) ; Distant, A. M. N. H. 

 (5)iii, p. 127 (1879). Assam. 



Var. a. — Above greyish, beneath entirely flavescent : antennae and 

 feet somewhat testaceous (G. angustatns, Fabr.). Virescent ; antennas 

 obscurely flavescent, last joint white at base : beneath flavescent, imma- 

 culate : abdomen above rufous (G. oratorius, Fabr.) Sordid greenish- 

 yellow : 2-4 joints of antennae yellow at base, black at apex (M. binotatus, 

 Herr. Schaff.). Long, 18 mill. Testaceous; thorax greenish, with the 

 lateral margins whitish : membrane with a black spot on the inner basal 

 angle : abdomen beneath yellowish-white : antennae with basal joint 

 fulvous, black externally and at apex : 2-3 joints black, fulvous at base ; 

 last joint brown, fulvous at base [L. chinensis, Dallas). Long. 16-17 

 mill. Body linear, above flavescent, margin of thorax and hemelytra 

 whitish : antennae elongate, filiform, 5-jointed (?), first joint very short, 

 globose, rest cylindrical, equal, inserted between the eyes, as long as the 

 body, joints flavescent at base, black at apex : rostrum porrect, longer 

 than head, inflexed, inserted below the clypeus; sheath 4-jointed, the 

 joints subequal, last a little shorter, somewhat obtuse : labium porrect, 

 elongate, very fine, corneous, subulate, as long as the first joint of the 

 sheath ; setae three, equal, subulate, as long as the sheath : wings hyaline 

 with a small common fuscous spot at the base : beneath flavescent ( G. 

 varicornis, Fabr.) . 



Var. b. — Above fulvous testaceous : membrane with a brown curved 

 streak on the inner margin, within the basal angle : abdomen above 

 reddish-orange, beneath with a row of four brown spots on each side (L. 

 maculiventris, Dallas). Long. 17 mill. Virescent-luteous : antennae 

 brunneous-f ulvous, 2-4 joints paler at the base : a thin arcuate fulvous 

 line at the base of the membrane : median segments of the abdomen 

 furnished beneath on both sides with a fuscous spot : feet fulvous (L. 

 bengalensis, Westw.). Long. 16| mill. 



The Indian Museum possesses specimens from Ceylon, S. India, 

 Tinnevelly, Bombay, Karachi, Behar, Sikkim, Calcutta, Assam. 



Chora-Poka. 



A bottle containing specimens labelled Chora-poka, received from Mr. 

 R* Cornish, C.S., of Balasore, contained the larvae of several species of 

 Rhynchota belonging to different families. The local report states that 



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