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



tibice being without tubercles, whilst the external edge has 5-6 robust 

 spines or teeth. Head rounded, emarginate in front, juga united with the 

 tylus, borders with a rim ; less rugose : pronotum punctured, margins 

 ciliated : hemelytra with three piliferous points : abdomen punctured : 

 the ostiolar canal more sinuous in front and behind, ending in a lobe 

 more angularly rounded, with a small tooth at the emargination : smooth 

 part of the mesosternum punctured : third joint of antennae oval, as 

 long as the second but stout ; 4-5 joints are equal and longest {Sign.)' 

 Long, 7f ; broad, 3J mill. 

 Reported from N. India. 



36. Lactistes truncato-seeratus, Signoret. 



Lactistes truncato-serratus, Sign., A. S. E. F. (6 s.) i, p. 51, t. 2, f. 10 (1881). 



$ . In colour and form like L. vicinus, Sign., but differs especially 

 in the dilated prolongation of the posterior tibias which is short and 

 presents at the last spine of the external side two emarginations that 

 form three rounded teeth : the tarsi are very long. Head rounded, 

 emarginate in front, the tylus shorter than the juga but free, the juga 

 not touching at the tip : pronotum more punctured, with two irregular 

 smooth spaces on the anterior disc : scutellum less densely punctured : 

 hemelytra without piliferous points : abdomen punctured on the sides, 

 on the mesosternum in the glossy lateral part, and on part of the metaster- 

 num and near the insertion of the posterior femora : the episternum 

 much punctured : the ostiolar canal very irregular, ending in a small 

 lobe, rounded, with a valveless emargination, not a tooth (Sign.). Long, 

 7J ; broad, SJ mill. 



Reported from N. India. 



Genus SCOPARIPES, Signoret. 



B. S. E. F. (5 s.) ix, p. clxxii (1879) ; 1. c. p. 235 (1879) : 1. c. (6 s.) i, p. 

 202 (1881). 



Distinguished by the form of tbe posterior tibiae in the S which 

 are long, flattened, more narrow at the base and at the tip and have on 

 the internal surface a line or edge furnished with short, stiff hairs very 

 close, and the same line but with a few hairs only in the ? ; on the 

 external surface, there are spines as in the other genera of this section. 

 Head more or less rounded and furnished on the margin with hairs and 

 rather stout spinules ; antennas 5-jointed of which the third is shorter 

 than the second : ostiolar canal broad, grooved transversely and ending 

 in a broad lobe with the lower opening surrounded by a kind of hood 

 {Sign.). 



