38 E. T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian Rhyncliota. [No. 1, 



tares ; anterior margin of the head between the somewhat exserted eyes 

 broadly rounded, deeply incised in the middle : sides of clypeus con- 

 verging towards the apex, united by a small transverse furrow behind 

 the middle : pronotum at least twice as broad as its median length, 

 scarcely twice as long as the head, narrower than the basal breadth by 

 one-third at apex, convex, the convexity transverse, almost the third part 

 of a circle ; disc often flatly impressed in the middle, convexly sloped 

 anteriorly and at the sides ; densely and minutely punctured, somewhat 

 smooth towards the anterior angles : scutellum almost twice as long as 

 the pronotum, longer by a fourth than the basal breadth, somewhat con- 

 vex, densely punctured ; anterior angles very acute ; lateral margins, 

 straight, apex broadly rounded : hemelytra as broad as half of the an- 

 terior margin of the scutellum, densely punctured, somewhat convex, 

 sides convexly sloped, externally rounded : venter somewhat smoothish, 

 with ferruginous hairs (Schiodte). Long, 3| mill. 

 Reported from Travancore. 



Genus Stibaeopus, Dallas. 



List Hem. i, p. Ill, 125 (1851) : Walker Cat. Het. i, p. 166 (1867) : Stal, En. 

 Hem. V, p. 13 (1876) : Sign. A. S. E. F. (6 s.) i, p. 43 (1881). Includes Pachyc- 

 nemis, Jakowleff, Hem. Cauc., Trudy Euss. Ent. Obch, viii, p. 54 (1875). 



Head very little longer than broad, rounded in front, with the apex 

 very slightly emarginate ; the margins closely set with spines, the juga 

 meeting beyond the tylus ; eyes of moderate size, globose, prominent : 

 ocelli very large, distant, placed close to the anterior margin of the pro- 

 notum : antennae short, not twice the length of the head, five-jointed, gra- 

 dually increasing in thickness from the base to the apex ; basal joint 

 short, second very small, third longest, gradually thickened towards the 

 apex, fourth and fifth ovate : rostrum slender, reaching the posterior 

 coxae, inserted close to the apex of the head ; basal and third joints about 

 equal, second and fourth also about equal, longer than the others, fourth 

 thinnest : body oblong-ovate : thorax a little broader than long, almost 

 semicircular in front : scutellum rather longer than broad, with the apex 

 broad. Membrane well developed, passing beyond the apex of the abdo- 

 men, with longitudinal veins : anterior tibiae compressed, cheliform, 

 slightly curved, with tbe basal half of the outer margin spinose, the in- 

 ner margin fringed with hairs, especially at the apex ; tarsi inserted at 

 about one-third of the length of the tibiae from the apex, very long and 

 slender, three-jointed ; basal joint very long, forming more than half 

 the tarsus, second shortest, third about half as long as the first ; inter- 

 mediate tibiae somewhat clavate, strongly curved, thickly set with spines 

 on the outside, especially towards the apex [ tarsi inserted at the apex 



