1887.] E. T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian Rhjnchota. 53 



Genus Macroscytus, Fieber. 



Enr. Hem. p. 83, 362, (1861) : Stal, Hem. Afric. i, p. 19, 23 (1864) ; En. Hera. 

 T, p. 18 (1876) : Sign. A. S. E. F. (6 s.) ii, p. 465 (1882). 



Body oval, depressed, ciliated with rare or very rare hairs : head 

 flat, semicircnlarly or somewhat obtusely rounded ; juga and tylus of 

 equal length ; bucculae continued through : antennae S-jointed, moderate, 

 filiform, second and third joints somewhat equal, somewhat longer than 

 the basal : scutellum triangular, longer than broad, the frena continued 

 almost to the apex : corium longer than the scutellum, exterior apical 

 angle acute : presternum longitudinally impressed : feet moderate, tibias 

 slender, first pair somewhat compressed, upper margin pectinated with 

 remote spines, last femora beneath armed near the apex with a spine 

 or tooth. Closely allied to jEthus, Dallas, differs in having the body 

 very remotely ciliated, margin of the head always without small spines 

 and especially in its habit (Stdl). Signoret makes the distinguishing 

 characters the large scutellum and especially the presence of a spine at 

 the tip of the posterior femora. 



47. Macroscytus foveolus, Dallas. 



^thus foveolus, Dallas, List Hem. i, p. 113 (1851) ; Walker, Cat. Het. i, p. 157 

 (1847) ; Stal, En. Hem. v, p. 25 (1876). 



Macroscytus foveolus, Signoret, A. S. E. F. (6 s.) ii, p. 472, t. 12, f. 131 (1882). 



S . Head rather small, with the anterior margin rounded, entire, the 

 juga not meeting beyond the tylus ; pitchy brown, with the margins paler 

 and fringed with fine bristles : ocelli very large, red : thorax pitchy 

 brown, with the posterior margin castaneous, anterior margin with a 

 faint, finely punctured, transverse fovea ; lateral margins finely and 

 thickly punctured, and fringed with long, stout, bristles : posterior 

 portion of the disc finely and sparingly punctured : scutellam pitchy 

 brown at the base, becoming castaneous-brown towards the apex, rather 

 strongly but sparingly punctured ; the tip with a distinct fovea. Cori- 

 aceous portion of the hemelytra bright castaneous-brown, thickly and 

 finely punctured ; membrane brownish, semi-transparent : abdomen 

 beneath pitchy, very smooth, shining, with the disc impunctate, the sides 

 thickly and finely punctured : pectus pitchy, thickly and finely punc- 

 tured : anterior legs pitchy red ; four posterior pitchy, with the cox89 

 reddish ; all the tarsi ferruginous : rostrum pitchy red, with the apex 

 pitchy : antennae ferruginous, dusky towards the base [Dallas). Long, 

 11 1 mill. 



Reported from N. India. 



