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



48. Macroscytus brunneus, Fabricius. 



Cydnm hrunneus, Fabr., Syst. Rhyng. p. 185 (1803). Tanger. 



^thus brunneus, Walker, Cat. Het. i, p. 149 (1867) excl. syn. Syria. 



Cydnus proximus, Ramb., Fauna Andal. p. 112 (1839). Spain. 



^ihus hadius, Walker, Cat. Het. p. 159 (1867). India, Ceylon, N. China. 



Var. (6.) yEthus opacus, Stal, Ofvers. K. V.-A., Forh., p. 214 (1853) ; Macros- 

 cxjtus id, Hem. Afrio. i, p. 26 (1864) ; En. Hem. v, p. 19 (1876). Caffraria. 



Var. (c.) Cimex spinipes, Fabr., Spec. Ins. ii, p. 360 (1781) ; Mant. Ins. ii, p. 

 172 (1787) ; Ent. Syst. iv, p. 124 (1794). Cen. Africa. 



Cydnus spinipes, Fabr., Syst. Rhyng. p. 186 (1803) : Stal, En. Hem. v, p. 25 

 (1876). 



Macroscytus brunneus, Fieber, Enr. Hem. p. 362 (1861) excl. syn. pt. ; Muls. and 

 Key, Pun. Fran, ii, p. 32 (1866), Stal, Hem. Fabr. i, p, 6 (1868) : Sign. A. S. E. F. 

 (6s.) ii, p. 477, t. 14, f. 136 (1882). 



Stature and size of G. aterrimus, Forster, but entirely brunneous 

 and more flat, thorax not retuse nor impressed with a median stria : 

 antennas S-jointed ; feet spiiose : last pair of femora inwardly dentate 

 {M. brunneus, Fabr.). 



Oval : of a more or less deep brown ; the varieties brunneus and 

 opacuSf black and spinipes more or less finely punctured : corium some- 

 times glossy : rostrum, base of antennae and the tarsi, yellow. Head 

 rounded circularly in front ; tylus as long as the juga which have 5-6 

 hairs along the margin : vertex scarcely carinate : ocelli approximate 

 to the eyes : rostrum reaching the tips of the intermediate coxo3 : two 

 first joints of the antennae, yellow ; the third shorter than the second, 

 the fourth and fifth the longest : pronotum convex in front, transversely 

 flattened without an impression ; borders slightly margined and with 

 several hairs : scutellum long, reaching three-fourths of the abdomen, 

 angular at the tip which is sloped, convex at the base and on the sides, 

 very finely punctured on the disc : hemelytra almost flat, finely punc - 

 tured, the radial veins scarcely prominent, the marginal side with 3-6 

 piliferous points ; membrane short, white, hyaline, veins clouded brown : 

 feet obscure, more or less deeply coloured, the tarsi yellow, all the 

 femora spinose beneath, the posterior femora with two stouter spines 

 at the tip which causes the posterior tibiae to become somewhat distorted 

 at the base, this portion is reddish and glabrous : abdomen black and 

 smooth with some hairs on the margin : ostiolar canal grooved ; the tip 

 with two lobes having a broad irregular valvule in the posterior indenta- 

 tion ; the dull plates (plariues mates) finely striated, the upper rounded 

 at the anterior angle and between it and the mcsosternal groove a 

 smooth space which extends to the level of the tip of the ostiolar canal. 

 In var. opacus, there is a weak punctuation in the smooth space of the 

 motastcrnum (Sign.). Long, 8; broad, 4| mill. 



Reported from Europe, Africa, Asia : China, Ceylon, India. 



