188 E. T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian Rliyncliota. [No. 2, 



Eurygaster maurus, Am, & Serv., Hist. Nat. Ins. Hem. p. 53 (1843) ; Dallas, 

 List Hem. i, p. 48 (1851) : Fieber, Eur. Hem. p. 370 (1861) : Mulsant & Rey, Pun. 

 France, p. 59 (1865) : Walker, Cat. Het. i, p. 66 (1867) : Stal, Hem. Fabr. i, p. 12 

 (1868) : Douglas & Scott, Brit. Hem. i, p. 65 t. 2, f. 5 (1865) : Saunders, Trans. 

 Ent. Soc. p. 119 (1875) : T. Sablb., K. S. V.-A. Handl. xvi, 4, p. 14 (1878) : Distant, 

 Trans. Ent. Soc. p. 415 (1883). 



Var. a. — Cimex maurus, Linn,, Fauna Suec, p. 246 (1761) : Fabr., Syst. Ent., p. 

 99 (1775) ; Ent. Syst. iv, p. 87 (1794). 



Tetyra maura, Fabr., Syst. Rhyng., p. 136 (1803). 



Thyreocoris austriacus, Scbranck, Fauna Boioc. ii, p. 68 (1801). 



Odontotarsus maurus, Spin., Ess. Hem. p. 363 (1837). 



Eurygaster cognatus, Westwood, Hope, Cat. Hem. i, p. 11 (1837). 



Var. b.— Tetyra picta, Fabr., Syst. Rhyng. p. 136 (1803). 



Odontotarsus pictus. Spin., Ess. Hem. p. 363 (1837). 



Eurygaster orientalis, Westwood, Hope, Cat. Hem. i, p. 11 (1837). 



This species varies mncli in size and colour from brownisli tawny 

 without markings to luteous with stripes and patches of brown. 



Var. a. — Greyish or fuscous, scutellum at the base with two white 

 s^ots (Linn.). Rufous-brunneous, punctured black: thorax with two 

 diverging streaks, somewhat fuscous : scutellum with two minute basal, 

 whitish spots, and an elevated median line, paler : beneath obscurely 

 luteous, with a black spot before the anus {E. cognatus, Westw.). 

 Long, 10| mill. 



Var. h. — Head and thorax obscure, a little irrorated with black : 

 scutellum large, obscure ; with two callous spots as in T. maura, two 

 spots in the middle and a dorsal line bifurcated posteriorly, yellow : 

 connexivum spotted fuscous on both sides (T. j?ic^a, Fabr.). Fuscoas- 

 rufescent, punctured black, variegated paler ; a slender line from the 

 head to the apex of the scutellum and two other oblique lines united to 

 it (having the appearance of a triangular scutellum) and a pair of 

 larger spots at the sides of the scutellum : beneath rufescent, punctured 

 black, especially in the middle of the abdomen {E. orientalis^ Westw.). 

 Long, 9-10 mill. 



Reported from Europe, Africa, India, Japan. 



Div. Odontoscelaria, Stal. 

 En. Hem. iii, p. 4, 30 (1873). 



Body setose or pilose : head transverse, somewhat semiorbicular, 

 thorax anteriorly broader than the head, anterior lateral margins dis- 

 tinctly rounded : the scutellum very broad : propleura deeply impress- 

 ed or excavated towards the lateral margins, the part lying beyond the 

 depression a little deflexed : venter without stridulatory strigose spots j 

 orifices not distinguishable (8tdl). 



