1887.] E, T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian Rhyncliota. 185 



slightly sulcated : disc of venter with two sericeous- shining spots, last 

 segment sinuated at the apex : feet somewhat robust, tibiae above flat 



(Stdl), 



101. HoTEA CURCULIONIDES, Herr. Schaff. 



Pachycoris curculionides, Herr. Schaff., Wanz. Ins. iii, p. 106, t. 107, f. 331 (1835) ; 

 Germar, Zeitschr. i (i) p. 106 (1839). 



Pachycoris picnctulatus, Germar, 1. c. p. 105 (1839). 



Hotea curculionides, Dallas, List Hem. i, p. 39 (1851) ; Walker, Cat. Hem. i p. 56 

 (1867) ; Vollenhoven, Faune Ent. rArch. Indo-Neer. p. 37 (1863). 



Hotea (Tylonca) curculionides, Stal, En. Hem. iii, p. 25 (1873) ; Distant, J. A. S. 

 B. xlviii (2) p. 37 (1879) ; A. M. N. H. (5 s.) iii, p. 44 (1879). 



Ochraceous, deeply and thickly punctured brown or black, except 

 on the vertex and anterior margins of the pronotum where the colour is 

 more yellow : head beneath black, except the borders of the rostral 

 groove : eyes and ocelli greyish yellow, the latter very small : two first 

 joints of the antennae yellow, the two next brownish and the last, brown : 

 the feet are even more punctured than the body : the tibiae reddish. 

 This species varies much in the depth of its brown colour and the punc ' 

 tures more or less strong and black ; Germar 's H. punctulata is of a 

 very deep brown ; some specimens have three longitudinal lines on the 

 head and thorax less punctured and lighter, and a zigzag transverse 

 band on the scutellum, from the most advanced portion of which proceed 

 three other light lines which reach the margins (VolL). Long, 8 — 9 mill. 



Schaffer's figure shows the upper surface deep brown without spots. 

 The Calcutta form has four longitudinal patches of a deeper colour 

 proceeding from the anterior margin of the pronotum, the two median 

 are continued obliquely inward almost to the posterior margin where 

 they meet. The scutellum has on each side an oblique small oblong 

 spot near the base on each side, and a large subquadrate patch on each 

 side beyond the middle, and two at the apex, all of a darker colour. 

 Specimens from Tavoy and Assam have the same spots more or less 

 distinct. 



Reported from Amboina, Java, Sunda, Celebes, Timor, Ternate, 

 Sumatra, Assam. The Indian Museum possesses specimens from Tavoy, 

 Calcutta and Sikkim. 



102. Hotea nigrorufa. Walker. 

 Eotea nigrorufa, Walker, Cat. Het, i, p. 57 (1867). 



Red, short-elliptical, thickly black-punctured, and with numerous 

 small irregular black marks : head with five irregular red lines, and 

 with two longitudinal furrows : antennae black ; first joint red ; fourth 

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