1887.] E. T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian Rhyncliota. 59 



on the eorium which is ahnost smooth, more abundantly along the 

 cubital suture, the clavus showing a complete line along the suture and 

 a half-line near the scutellum ; a second line of punctures on the 

 external radial vein and a strong impunctate line, not extending beyond 

 the middle of the hemelytra, on the internal radial vein : membrane 

 hyaline, extending beyond the abdomen which is smooth and shining : 

 meso- and meta-sternum entirely dull : ostiolar canal very long, extending 

 beyond the mososternura, stout at the source ; then narrowing and 

 ending in a rounded lobe which points backwards ; in the middle, a 

 narrow groove gradually widened until it is lost in the rounded lobe 

 (^Sign.)^ Long, 2^ ; broad, 1 mill. 

 Reported from India. 



Sec. II. Sehirides Signoret. 



A. S. E. F. (6 s.) i, p. 26 (1881) ; iii, p. 521 (1883) -.—Sehirida, Stal, Hem. Afric, 

 i. p. 27 (1864). 



Without piliferous or setigerous points or dots on the vertex and 

 pronotum in front near the anterior margin and on the disc near the 

 transverse impression and above. These characters are, however, so 

 weak and variable that Sfcal was probably right in sinking the divisions 

 into Gydnida and Sehirida made by him in 1864 and including the 

 whole as one sub-family of the Pentatomidae in 1876 (En. Hem, v. p. 

 17, 1876). 



Genus Peltoxts, Signoret. 



B. S. E. F. (5 s.) X, p. xxxiii (1880) ; 1. c. (6 s.) iii. p. 522 (1883). Includes 

 Legnotus, Stal (nee Schiodte), Hem. Fabr. p. 7 (1868) ; En. Hem. v, p. 22 (1876). 



Scutellnm short, sides almost equal at the base, tip acuminate ; 

 membrane very large, but not projecting beyond the abdomen : ros- 

 trum short, scarcely extending beyond the anterior feet : intermediate 

 femora ciliated and with four short spines at the tip ; anterior tibias a 

 little dilated, the posterior tibias straight : ostiolar canal broad, long, 

 with an opening of one half its size (Sign.). 



56. Peltoxts brevipennis, Fabricius. 



Cimex brevipennis, Fabr., Ent, Syst. Suppl. p. 536 (1798). 

 Cydnus brevipennis, Fabr., Sysb. Rhyng. p. 187 (1803). 

 ^thus brevipennis, Walker, Cat. Het. i, p. 158 (1867). 



Legnotus brevipennis, Stal, Hem. Fabr. i, p. 8 (1868) ; En. Hem, v, p. 22 

 (1876). 



Peltoxys pubescens, Sign., B. S. E. F. (5 s.) X, p. xxxiii (1880). 

 Peltoxyx brevipennis, Sign., 1. c. (6 s.) iii, p. 522, t, 15, f. 203 (1883). 



