1887.] E. T. Aikmson— Notes on Indian Rliyncliota.' 187 



104. Alphocoris lixoides, Germar. 



Al^pliocoris lixoides, Germar, Zeitschr. i, p. 59, t. i, f. 3 (1839) : Am. & Serv., 

 Hist. Nat. Ins. Hem. p. 44 (1843): Dallas, List Hem. i, p. 41 (1851) : Stal, Hem. 

 Afric. i, p. 60 (1864) : En. Hem. iii, p. 26 (1873) : Walker, Cat. Het. i, p. 59 (1867). 



c? , 9 . Oblong, narrow, yellow-testaceous, beneath, with feet (ex- 

 cept ventral limbus) blackish : above, rather densely and distinctly 

 punctnlate, with four obsolete fuscous streaks ; apex of scutellum sub- 

 truncate or slightly sinuate : disc of venter sometimes yellow-testaceous 

 and adorned with two black streaks (Stdl). Long, 9^ — 10 j broad, 

 3-3J mill. 



Reported from North India, Senegal. 



Div. EURYGASTRARIA, Stal. 



En. Hem. iii, p. 4, 29, (1873) : Eurygastridoe, pt., Dallas, List Hem. i, p. 43 

 (1851). 



Differs from Odontotarsaria, in having the orifices distinct : se- 

 cond joint of antennae somewhat curved. 



Genus Eurygastee, Laporte. 



Subg. id. Ess. Hem, p. 69 (1832) : Eurygaster, Stal, Hem. Afric. i, p. 61 (1864) j 

 Eu. Hem. i, p. 18 (1870) ; iii, p. 29, 30 (1873). Includes, according to Stal ;— 

 Bellocoris, pt., Hahn, Wanz. Ins. ii, p. 42 (1834) :— Eurygaster, Spin., Ess. p. 365 

 (1837) ; Mulsant & Rey, Pun. Scut. p. 59 1865) : — Tetyra, Germar, Zeitschr, i, (i) p. 

 72 (1839) : Herr. Schiiff. Wanz. Ins. v, p. 48 (1839) -.—Eurygaster, sabg. Platypleurus, 

 Mulsant & Rey, Pun. Scut. p. 59 (1865). 



Body oval or ovate, a little convex above and beneath : head flat or 

 very slightly convex ; antennae short, slender : thorax sexangular : 

 scutellum with the sides parallel, much narrower than the abdomen, 

 leaving the entire costal part of the hemelytra free : abdomen with the 

 sides flattened broader than the thorax : orifices extended in a rather 

 long furrow, abruptly abbreviated ; sides of mesosternal furrow neither 

 carinate nor rugose ; tibiae furrowed above. In the section to which 

 E. maurus, Linn, belongs, the lateral margins of the pronotum are 

 straight or somewhat so ; the scutellum is marked on both sides at the 

 base near the basal angles with an oblong callous spot and the smooth 

 longitudinal line is not callous (Platyjpleurus, M. & R.). 



105. Eurygaster maurus, Linnaeus. 



E. {Platypleurus^ maurus, Stal, En. Hem. iii, p. 30 (1873). 



Tetyra maura. Fallen, Hem. Suec. Cim,, p. 12 (1828) : Burm., Handb. Ent. ii, p. 

 390 (1835) : Germar, Zeitschr. i, p. 73 (1839) j Rambur, Fauna Andal. ii, p. 100 

 (1841). 



