1887.] E. T. Atkinson— ^0^65 on Indian Rhynchota. 147 



ed : scutellura very large, as broad as the abdomen : sterna and venter 

 furrowed, the sternal furrow ended on both sides by a high ridge, the 

 mesosternal ridges not produced anteriorly : venter in cT with two 

 large, opaque, remotely somewhat-pilose spots : tibiaa cylindrical, above 

 slightly bisubsulcate, furnished with a median ridge, margined on both 

 sides (Sjpin.j Stdl). 



69. SOLENOSTETHIUM RUBRO-PUNCTATUM, Guerin. 



Scutellera ruhro-punctata, Guerin, Voy. Coq. Zool. ii. (2) p. 157 (1838). 



Solenosthedium ruhro-punctatum, Dallas, List Hem. i, p. 7 (1851). 



Solenostedium ruhro-punctatum, VolL, Faane Ent. I'Arch. Indo-Neer. i, p. 4, t. I, 

 f. 1 ( (/) (1843) : Walker, Cat. Het. i, p. 4 (1867). 



Solenostethium riibropunctatum, Stal, En. Hem. iii, p. 6 (1873) : Distant, A. M. 

 N. H. (5 8.) iii, p. 44 (1879). 



Head, thorax and scutellum of a rather deep reddish brown : head 

 triangular, immaculate, with a small longitudinal elevation in the mid- 

 dle ; antenna9 black : thorax sprinkled with numerous, very small, in- 

 distinct, green dots ; three round orange spots on each side, of which 

 one on the anterior margin immediately behind the eyes, another in the 

 middle and a third near the posterior margin ; anteriorly a seventh spot 

 in the middle : the scutellum is without green dots and has six orange 

 spots at the base at an equal distanxje from each other, and four in the 

 middle behind these, also at an equal distance from each other : body 

 beneath ferruginous yellow with a small black spot on each side of each 

 segment of the abdomen : femora reddish, with the tibiae and tarsi 

 black (Guerin). Long, 13 ; broad 8|- mill. 



Reported from China, Java, Assam. The Indian Museum has 

 specimens from Naga hills, Sikkim. The d* has 10, the ? 8 spots on 

 the scutellum. 8. chinense, Stal, is probably only a local variety, as the 

 links between it and 8. rubro-punctatum are nearly complete. 



Div. Sph^rocoraria, Stal. 



Meso- and meta-sternum without ridges, sometimes furrowed. 

 Body above very convex, beneath very slightly so : head transverse, 

 very much inclined or perpendicular : thorax and scutellum at the base, 

 together, gradually longitudinally convex, basal margin of thorax ob- 

 tusely rounded towards the basal angles of the scutellum, posterior 

 angles usually obtusely rounded, not distinguishable as angles : second 

 joint of the rostrum much shorter than the two apical together : venter 

 without stridulatory, strigose spots, incisures gradually curved towards 

 the middle. 



