186 E. T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian Rhjncliota. [No. 2, 



red at the tip : thorax with a red longitudinal line ; sides luteous ; 

 angles acute : scutellum with an apical patch, which is not varied with 

 black : abdomen luteous along each side : legs red, black speckled ; 

 tarsi black : hemelytra brown ; corium red, with black punctures : wings 

 cinereous. Var. a. body red, with the exception of the punctures. 

 Var. 6. like var. a : punctures red, here and there black. (WalJcer), 

 Body long, 10^ mill. 



Reported from India. 



103. Hotea(?) diffusa, Walker. 

 Hotea (?) diffusa, Walker, Cat. Het. i, p. 57 (1867). 



Testaceous, elliptical very minutely punctured : head slightly ros- 

 triform, with two black longitudinal lines, which in the forepart are 

 accompanied by two slight furrows : thorax somewhat rounded along 

 the hind border, angular on each side, contracted in front ; two slight 

 and interrupted black lines ; a transverse lanceolate ferruginous-border- 

 ed mark on each side near the fore border : scutellum with a short 

 longitudinal streak on each side, composed of minute black speckles. 

 {Walker). Body long, 9i mill. 



Reported from India. 



Div. Odontotarsaria, Stal. 



En. Hem. iii, p. 4, 26 (1873). 



Head longer than broad or equally long and broad : anterior lateral 

 margins of thorax anteriorly not, or but very slightly, rounded : pro- 

 pleura not, or but slightly, impressed near the lateral margins : orifices 

 not distinguishable : second joint of antennae straight. 



Genus Alphocoris, Germar. 



Zeitschr. i, p. 58 (1837) : Dallas, List Hem. i, p. 5 (1851) : Stal, Hem. Afric. i, 

 p. 35, 60 (1844) : Mayr, Reise Novara Hem. p. 13 (1866) : Walker, Cat. Het. i, p. 59 

 (1867). 



Body stout, especially beneath convex, narrowly oval or oblong, 

 greyish-tomentose : head stout, not margined, very convex, bucculee 

 rather elevated : antennae short, somewhat longer than the head : thorax 

 sexangular, posterior angles obtusely rounded, lateral angles not promi- 

 nent obtuse : scutellum a little produced at the apex, the produced part 

 sinuate or somewhat sinuate at the apex : prostethium somewhat dilated 

 at the apex : sterna deeply sulcate : ventral incisures curved {Stal), 



