24 E. T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian Rliynchota. [No. 1, 



1. Tarichea nitens, Dallas. 



Plataspis nitens, Dallas, List Hem. i, p. 74 (1851). 



Tarichea nitens, Stal, A. S. E. F. (4 s.) v, p. 163 (1865) ; En. Hem. v, p. 6 

 (1876) : Walker, Cat. Het. i, p. Ill (1867). 



9 . Above brassy, very smooth and shining, rather thickly and finely 

 punctured : head, disc of abdomen, anus, sutures and stigmata, black : 

 pectus dull black : eyes reddish : abdomen bright red, shining : legs 

 bright orange-red : head beneath black vs^ith an orange spot in the mid- 

 dle of the base : rostrum pitchy red, with the basal joint orange-red : 

 antennae orange-red, with the two (?) apical joints black (Dallas). Body 

 long 9^ mill. 



Reported from N. India. 



Genus Calacta, Stil. 



A. S. E. P. (4 s.) V, p. 163 (1866) : En. Hem. v, p. 6 (1876). 



Body very broadly ovate or oval, rather convex, flat beneath : head 

 produced before the eyes, somewhat amplified forwards, truncated at 

 the apex ; juga contiguous before the middle ; eyes transverse, oblique ; 

 ocelli almost twice as distant from each other as from the eyes : lateral 

 margins of thorax roundly amplified, anterior angles produced to the 

 apex of the head, rounded : scutellum covering the entire abdomen, not 

 abruptly amplified at the base : costal margin of hemelytra, broadly 

 lobate at the base ; feet somewhat short (8tdl). 



2. Calacta rufo-notata, Stal. 



Calacta rufo-notata, Stal, A. S. E. F. (4 s.) v, p. 164 (1865) ; En. Hem. v, p. 6 

 (1876). 



c5*. Broadly oval, moderately convex, remotely and finely punctu- 

 late : disc of thorax and scutellum very finely punctulate : eyes rufous- 

 piceous : small spots, one marginal near the posterior angles of the 

 thorax, another on the basal lobe of the hemelytra, two marginal dorsal 

 before the middle of the abdomen, sanguineous : tarsi weakly testaceous 

 flavescent : anteocular part of the head hardly amplified forwards (Stal) . 

 Long, 6 ; broad 2f mill. 



Reported from Siam. 



Genus Onctlaspis, Stal. 



Hem. Afric. i, p, 2 (1864) ; En. Hem. v. p. 4, 6 (1876). 



Body depressed, rather strongly convex : head broad, slightly or 

 moderately bending forwards ; vertex about thrice broader than the 

 eyes which are transverse, oblique, narrowed inwards, deeply immersed. 



