1887.] E. T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian Rliyncliota. 49 



and four on the internal side : second joint of the antennoe much longer 

 than the third : rostrum reaching the intermediate feet : ostiolar canal 

 ending in the middle of the episternum, much rounded at the tip which 

 is curved back beneath, with a valvular emargination : the episternumg 

 with three small dull plates (plaques 'niates)^ that of the mesosternum 

 occupying the entire internal angle along the coxa and continued on the 

 suture up to the border ; the lower, or that of the metasternum, occupying 

 only the space above the extreme lobe of the ostiolar canal (Sign.) Easily 

 distinguished by its abundant punctuation and the form of the ostiolar 

 canal. Long, 6 ; broad, 3^ mill. 



Reported from Khandalla (Bombay ?). 



43. jEthus maurus, Dallas. 



Mthns maurus, Dallas, List Hem. i, p. 118 (1851) ; Walker, Cat. Het. i, p. 158 

 (1867) ; Stal, En. Hem. v, p. 26 (1876) ; Distant, Scien. Res. 2nd Yarkand Miss. p. 3 

 (1879). 



^ , ? . Black somewhat shining, very thickly and finely punctured : 

 head as long as broad, with the anterior margin semicircular, very 

 faintly notched at the tip, juga not passing the tylus : ocelli not very 

 large, red : thorax with a faint punctured transverse furrow about the 

 middle, the anterior and lateral margins, and the portion of the disc be- 

 hind the transverse furrow, very thickly and finely punctured ; scutel- 

 lum rather elongated, very thickly and finely punctured. Coriaceous 

 portion of the hemelytra pitchy castaneous, finely and rather thickly 

 punctured, the punctures closer on the line of the veins, near which it 

 is darker than on the rest of the surface ; membrane brownish, trans- 

 parent : abdomen very thickly and finely punctured on the sides, the 

 middle of the disc, smooth, shining, impunctate ; the posterior margins 

 of the segments very minutely denticulated : legs pitchy black, with the 

 tarsi ferruginous : rostrum ferruginous : antennaa ferruginous brown 

 (Dallas). Long, 6^ mill. 

 Reported from India ? 



Genus Cydnus, Fabricius. 



Pt. Syst. Rhyng. p. 184 (1803) : Cydnus, Dallas, List Hem. i, p. 110, 120 (1851) : 

 Walker, Cat. Het. i, p. 164 (1867) : Stal, Hem. Afric. i, p. 18, 19 (1864) ; En. Hem. 

 V, p. 20 (1876) : Sign. pt. A. S. E. F. (6 s.) ii, p. 145 (1882). Includes Brachypelta, 

 Am. & Serv., Hist. Nat. Ins. Hem. p. 89 (1843). 



Body oval : head produced, semicircularly rounded at the apex and 

 slightly emarginate in the middle, juga longer than the tylus, contiguous 

 at the apex, margins reflexed, remotely ciliated ; bucculae rather elevated, 

 higher posteriorly than anteriorly : first joint of rostrum not extending 



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