146 E. T. Atkinson — Notes on hnlian Rhyncliota. [N"o. 2, 



58. OXYPRYMNA SPINOL^, SigU. 



Elvisura spinollce, Sign., A. S. E. F. (4 s.) i, p. 55, t. 2, f. 5 (1861) j Walker 

 Cat. Het. i, p. 61 (1867). 



Oxyprymna spinoloe, Stal, En. Hem. iii, p. 5 (1873). 



Black shining : the head, pronotum, scutellum and especially the 

 abdomen, covered with a grey, powdery, pubescence : pronotum and 

 scutellum with round yellow spots. Head stout, rounded in front, the 

 tylus not extending beyond the juga ; the lateral margins weakly 

 sinuate ; eyes a little prominent ; ocelli equally distant from the eyes and 

 the median line and somewhat near the posterior border ; entire head, 

 above and below, except some weakly convex portions, covered with a 

 greyish pubescence which when removed discloses an extremely fine 

 punctuation : anterior border of pronotum straight, sides scarcely 

 sinuated, posterior border strongly rounded, and extending over the 

 scutellum ; posterior angles obtusely rounded ; near the anterior border 

 are some depressions in which is the grey pubescence, also on the sides 

 and behind the posterior angles ; on the disc are some small, round, 

 yellowish marks : scutellum acuminate at the tip, reaching the end of 

 the abdomen, and furnished with a strong median ridge ; on each side, 

 near the lateral borders, are depressions clothed with the grey pubes- 

 cence, and on the disc 6-7 small yellowish patches like those on the 

 pronotum, and towards the second-third a punctured, yellowish band : 

 hemelytra extending weakly beyond the scutellum : abdomen with a 

 strong median groove and covered with a silken grey pubescence, 

 very abundant : feet short, stout, covered with the same pubescence. 

 (Sign.) Long, 16 ; broad 9 mill. Reported from India. 



Genus Solenostethium, Spinola. 



Solenosthediumy Spinola, Ess. p. 360 (1837) ; Dallas. List Hem. i, p. 36 (1851)). 

 Solenostethium, Am. & Serv., Hist. Nat. Ins. Hem. p. 26 (1843) j Mayr, Reise 

 Novara, Hem. p. 13(1866); Stal, En. Hem. iii, p. 5 (1873). Includes Cceloglossa, 

 Germar, Zeitschr. i (i) p. 130 (1839) ; Herr. Schaff., Wanz. Ins. v, p. 59 (1839) j 

 Stal, Hem. Afric. i, pp. 35, 52 (1864). 



Body obovate : head a little convex, triangular, rather inclined and 

 flattened ; eyes rather stout, globose ; ocelli more distant from each 

 other than from the eyes ; tylus longer than the juga ; antennae, slender, 

 S-jointed, somewhat short, second joint shortest, 3-5 joints successively 

 increasing in length : first joint of rostrum not extending beyond the 

 lower surface of the head, fourth joint reaching the end of the rostral 

 canal, between the third pair of feet : thorax sexangalar, basal produced 

 part truncate, basal margin straight, posterior and lateral angles round- 



