K6 Indian Economic Entomology. [ Vol. I, 



Knli-poka, insects that affect the rice-crop : further information is re- 

 quired in regard to this also. 



Physopelta Schlanbuschii, Falricius. 



Cimex Slanbuschii, Fabr., Mant. Ina. ii, p. 299 (1787) ; Gmelin Ed. Syst. 

 Nat., i (4), p. 2172 (1788) : Stall., Punaises, p. 151, t. 38, f. 273 (1788). 



Lygceus Slanbuschii, Fabr., Ent. Syst. iv, p. 155 (1794). 



Lygceus Schlanbuschii, Fabr., Syst. Ebyng., p. 222 (1803). 



Pyrrhocoris Schlangenbuschii, Burm., Handb. Ent. ii (i), p. 286 (1835). 



Physopelta Schlanbuschii, Stal, Ofvers. K. V.-A., Fbrh., p. 195 (1861) ; Berlin 

 Ent. Zeitscbr. vii, p. 391 (1863) ; Hem., Fabr. i, p. 80 (1868) ; En. Hem. i. 

 p. 100 (1870) ; Walker, Cat. Het. vi,p. 20 (1873) var. : Distant; A. M. N. H. 

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



Sanguineous : antennae dull black, last joint cinereous : head imma- 

 culate : thorax with a broad deep black band not reaching the margins : 

 scutellum deep black : hemelytra smooth, with a black round spot in the 

 middle ; wings black, immaculate : beneath also sanguineous with abbre- 

 viated dull black bands: feet fuscous; femora sanguineous {Fabr.) ; 

 antennae, tibiae and tarsi, fuscous : pronotum witli two spots, scutellum, 

 a large spot on the corium and the membrane, black {Burm,) : one or 

 two interrupted bands and the thorax forming four transverse quad- 

 rate spots, two anterior and two posterior occur in specimens from 

 Calcutta and Assam respectively. Long, 16 £ mill, 



Reported from China, Assam, and Calcutta (Ind. Mus.). 



In 1884 Mr. J. Cleghorn forwarded a pentatomid, which was stated 

 to have attacked and destroyed the caterpillars of Tusser silk-worms 

 feeding in the open. This rather strange habit requires verification, and 

 should be carefully observed. The insect is large euough to be readily 

 picked off by the hand, and can hardly occur in sufficient numbers to 

 become formidable. It belongs to the Rhynchota, family Pentalomida, 

 and was first described by Wolff in 1801. 



Canthecona furcellata, Wolff. 



[ Plate VI, Fig. 3 ; not. size. ] 



Atkinson, Journ. As. Soc. Beng., lvii (2), 1888, p. 175. 



Antennae 5 -join ted, ferruginous-yellow, joints fuscous at the apex : 

 head porrect, obtuse, impressly punctured, varied fuscous and tawny, with 

 a paler longitudinal line : eyes fuscous : rostrum 4- jointed, ferruginous, 

 fuscous at the apex : pronotum greyish, anteriorly varied fuscous, poste- 

 riorly with numerous impressed fuscous dots or points, the anterior 



