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



JEthus •palliditarsus, Scott, Hem. Japan, Trans. Ent. Soc. iv, p. 309 (1880). 

 Geotomusjacutidus, F. B. White, A. M. N. H. (4 s.) xx, p. 110 (1877). 

 Geotomus subtristis, F. B. White, 1. c, p. Ill (1877). 



Geotomus ? minutus, Motsch., Sign., Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. xvi, p. 650 (1880). 

 Geotomus pygmcBus, Sign., A. S. E. F. (6 s.) iii, p. 51, t. 3, f. 160 (1883). 



? . Elongate-ovate, black, shining : head with the juga sparingly- 

 punctured ; ocelli red ; thorax smooth, somewhat quadrate, transverse, 

 with a short line of fine punctures close to the middle of the anterior 

 margin, a line of similar punctures across the middle, and a few scattered 

 punctures on the sides, scutellum long, rather thickly and finely punc- 

 tured, with the base impunctate. Coriaceous portion of the hemelytra 

 pitchy, very thickly and finely punctured, the punctures larger along 

 the veins ; membrane whitish ; body beneath, black ; abdomen thickly 

 and finely punctured on the sides ; the disc smooth : legs pitchy ; tarsi 

 pale orange ; antennae pale brown, with the tips of the fourth and 

 fifth joints paler or testaceous (Dallas). Long, 3J — 4 j ; broad. If — 2 

 mill. 



Reported from India, Sumatra^ Java, New Caledonia, Japan, China, 

 Hawaii. 



51. Geotomus elongatus, Herrich Schiiffer. 



Cydnus elongatus, Herr. Schaff., Wanz. Ins. v, p. 97, t. 27, f. 546 (1839). 



Cydnus ohlongus, Eamb., Fauna Andal. p. 115 (1839) ; Fieber, Eur. Hem. p. 364 

 (1861). 



^thus elongatus, Walker, Cat. Het. i, p. 148 (1876). 



Geotomus elongatus, Mnls. and Key, Pun. France, ii, p. 35, 88 (1866) ; Sign. A. 

 S. E. F. (6 s.) iii, p. 212, t. 5, f. 176 (1883). 



Body oblong, elongate, parallel on the sides : black-brown, corium 

 a little lighter : rostrum, antennae and feet, yellow-brown ; tarsi yellow : 

 punctured on the head, the posterior disc and the sides of the pronotum, 

 the scutellum (except the basal angles), and the hemelytra. Head 

 rounded in front, tylus as long as the juga and presenting two hairs at 

 the tip, the juga with 4 — 5 hairs : second joint of the antennse as long as 

 the third, the fourth and fifth longest : rostrum reaching the base of the 

 intermediate coxae : pronotum slightly impressed, punctured on the 

 posterior disc, also on the lateral margins and behind the anterior in- 

 dentation ; 7 — 8 piliferous points on the sides : scutellum long, punc- 

 tured, angular at the tip, with a longitudinal impression, basal angles 

 smooth : hemelytra punctured, a single piliferous point on the marginal 

 side : membrane white hyaline : abdomen black, smooth in the middle, 

 sides punctured : mesosternal plate extending to the lateral margin, 

 metasternal plate separated from the smooth space which has two rows 

 of dots, by an almost straight line, concave above, convex below : ostiolar 



