1887,] E, T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian Rhyncliota. 189 



Grenns Arctocoris, Germar. 



Pt., Zeitschr. i (i), p. 46 (1839): Stal, En. Hem. iii, p. 31 (1873). Includes, 

 Irochrotiis, Am. & Serv., Hist. Nat. Ins. Hem., p. 39 (1843) ; Fieber, Eur. Hem. 

 p. 86, 377 (1861) ; Mayr, Reise Nov. Hem. p. 18 (1866). 



Body thickly clothed with long hairs : lateral margins of thorax 

 incised or sinuated behind the middle, between the sinns a deep trans- 

 verse impression. 



106. Arctocoris incisus, Stal. 



Arctocoris incisus, Stal, En. Hem. iii, p. 31 (1873). 



c?. Narrowly subobovate, punctulate, black, turning above into 

 ferruginous, greyish-pilose and subtomentose : thorax before the mid- 

 dle slightly roundly-narrowed, transversely impressed very distinctly 

 in the middle, lateral margins very deeply incised in the middle, anterior 

 angles somewhat prominent forwards. The d* has on the ventral disc 

 of 4th, 5th segments on both sides, a deep black opaque, subimpressed, 

 oval spot. Allied to A. laiiatus, Pallas, but differs in being smaller, 

 narrower, subobovate, narrowed hind wards, thorax only narrowed at 

 the apex, lateral margins very deeply incised, not obtusely sinuated, 

 and with, the bucculae more elevated (Stdl) Long 5, breadth of pronotum, 

 3 mill. 



Reported from Bengal. 



Species of uncertain position. , 



107. Callidea fascialis, White. 



Callidea fascialis, White, Trans. Ent. Soc. iii, p. 86 (1842) ; Dallas, List Hem# 

 i, p. 28 (1851) ; Walker, Cat. Het. i, p. 27 (1867) j Stal, En. Hem. iii, p. 31 (1873). 



Head short, in front rather blunt, with a large pinkish- violet 

 spot, on the side of the two impressed praeocular lines, the space between 

 these, being green : first joint of the antennae testaceous at base, green 

 at the tip : rostrum reaching the posterior coxae, black at the tip, yel- 

 low at the base : thorax with seven black spots ; two distant anterior 

 ones in front connected by a narrow slightly curved black line : five 

 posterior ones, the median, largest, and square, apparently connected 

 together at the base by an obscure band, which has a slight pinkish 

 hue on the posterior blunt angle of the thorax : legs yellow, femora at 

 tip, bluish green, tibiae rufescent, ciliated : scutellum convex, posterior- 

 ly bent down, blunt at apex, with a semicircular impression at the base, 

 deepest on the dorsum ; at the base there is a narrow, transverse black 

 band, sinuated on the posterior margin ; a little before the middle there 

 is another transverse black band, broadest in the middle beyond which 



