184 E. T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian Rhyncliota. [No. 2, 



especially at the base which is brassy, cupreous or violet : hemelytra 

 with the margins pale testaceous : margins of the abdomen projecting 

 slightly beyond the scutellum, bright red, crenated, each segment bear- 

 ing two small projections or tubercles ; abdomen beneath, deep blue 

 violet, very smooth and finely punctured, with a strong brassy-gree^i 

 reflection ; a violet line on the margin of each segment, running be- 

 tween the red tubercles ; anal apparatus red, violet at base in c? : pectus 

 shining violet, punctured ; the antero-lateral margins and the promi- 

 nent lateral angles, reddish : legs shining violet, finely pilose ; tarsi 

 black : antennae and rostrum black, the former covered with short 

 hairs. (Dallas.) 6' , long with membrane 15 ; 9,16 mill. 



Reported from N. India, Assam, Sikkim (Ind. Mus.) : varies some- 

 what in the colouring above and beneath : above often purplish nacreous, 

 beneath the disc of abdomen shining red. 



Div. Tettraria, Stal. 

 En. Hem. iii, p. 3, 24 (1873). 



Body beneath distinctly convex, generally above and below equally 

 convex or below more convex : thorax and scutellum at the base con- 

 jointly gradually longitudinally convex, very rarely slightly convexly 

 inclined, basal part of thorax somewhat produced backwards between the 

 basal angles of the scutellum or the thorax posteriorly gradually round- 

 ed between the lateral angles, basal angles very obtuse or rounded : 

 venter in both sexes with two stridulatory spots, longitudinally very 

 densely and very finely strigose, oblong or elongate, extended through 

 at least the fourth and fifth segments, sometimes difficult to distinguish, 

 intermediate incisures straight on the disc or biundated, abruptly and 

 obtusely subangulately curved at the sides of the disc : orifices very 

 distinct {Stdl). 



Genus Hotea, Am. & Serv. 



Hist. Nat. Ins. Hem. p. 41 (1843) : Dallas, List Hem. i, p. 5, 39 (1851) : Mayr. 

 Rcise Novara Hem. p. 15 (1866) : Walker, Cat. Het., i, p. 55 (1867) : Stal, Hem. 

 Afric. i, p. 35, 53 (1864) ; En. Hem. iii, p. 24 (1873). 



Body nude, above and beneath convex : head altogether convex, 

 with a continued median lobe, bucculae rather elevated before the mid- 

 dle : second and third joints of the antennae subequal in length, or the 

 second a little longer than the third : thorax sexangular, anterior lateral 

 margins, distinctly sinuated, lateral angles produced, more or less acu- 

 minate, posterior angles rounded, posterior margin straight : scutellum 

 as broad as the abdomen, rounded at the apex, not produced : proste- 

 thium dilated anteriorly, covering the base of the antennae : sterna 



