1887.] E. T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian Rliynchota. 47 



buccnlse continued through, slightly elevated : first joint of the rostrum 

 not extending posteriorly beyond the bucculae : antennae S-jointed, very 

 often somewhat short and furnished with subfusiform apical joints ; 

 scutellura triangular, longer than broad, frena extended almost to the 

 apex : corium longer than the scute Hum, with the apical margin 

 straight : presternum longitudinally impressed : feet moderate, femora 

 sparingly setose, tibiae very spinose, first pair much compressed, upper 

 margin spinosely pectinate (Stdl). 



Signoret (1. c.) restricts ^thus, to those species of Dallas which 

 have the head spinulose and ciliated and in which the ostiolar canal does 

 not end in a cornet or ear-shaped opening of which the borders are more 

 or less flattened. 



40. ^THUS iNDicus, "Westwood. 



Cydnus indicus, Westwood, Hope, Cat. Hem. i, p. 19 (1837) ; Stal, En. Hem. 

 V. p. 26 (1876) ; Sign. An. Mus. Gen. xvi, p. 632 (1880) ; Lethierry, 1, c. xviii, p. 649 

 (1883). 



^thus perosus, Stal, Offers. K. V.-A. Forh. p. 214 (1853) ; Hem. Afric. i, p. 23 

 (1864) ; Ofvers. K. V.-A. p. 614 (1870) ; En. Hem. v, p. 18 (1876). 



^thus impressicollis, Signoret, A. S. E. F. (3 s.) viii, p. 923 (1861). 



^thus indicus, Dallas, List Hem. i, p. 114 (1851) ; Walker. Cat. Het. i, p. 155 

 (1867) ; Signoret, A. S. E. F. (6 s.) ii, p. 28, 1. 1, f. 69 (1882). 



Small, black, shining, ovate, punctured : antennae moderate ; sides 

 of body setose : feet moderate, black : anterior tibiae, broad, spinose^ four 

 posterior setiferous {Westwood) . Body long 6 mill. 



^ , $ . Oval or ovate, black-piceous : head somewhat obtusely round- 

 ed, rarely somewhat semicircular, distinctly punctured, the base and the 

 tylus smooth, margin slightly reflexed, remotely pilose : antennae 

 fuscous-piceous, apical joints of a weaker colour, somewhat short, three 

 last joints somewhat incrassate, second a little shorter than the third : 

 thorax convex, in c?, impressed before the middle, rather densely and 

 distinctly punctured, the base and transverse space before the middle, 

 smooth, lateral margins remotely pilose : scutellum moderately densely- 

 punctured : hemelytra distinctly punctured ; membrane sordid hyaline 

 or very slightly infuscate : sides of venter sparingly punctured : tarsi 

 yellow piceeus (JS. porosus, Stal). Long, 5| — 6 ; broad, 3 — S^ mill. 



Reported from S. Africa, Madagascar, Flores, Celebes, Borneo, Java, 

 China, Burma, India, Bombay. 



41. -^THUS BORREi, Signoret. 



JEthus horrei, Signoret, A. S. E. F. (6 s.) ii, p. 32, t. 2, f. 73 (1882). 

 S . Brown, oval, shining, sparingly and strongly punctured : ros" 



