1887.] E. T. Atkinson— JN^o^es on Indian Rhynchota. 195 



117. SCOTINOPHARA COARCTATA, FabriciuS. 



Cimex coarctatus, Fabr., Ent. Syst. Suppt., p. 530 (1798). 



Tetyra bispinosa, pt. Fabr., Syst. Rbyng. p. 138 (1803). 



.? Podops bispinosus, Herr. SchafO., Wanz. Ins. v, p. 45, t. 158, f. 496 (1839) 

 Dallas, List Hem. i, p. 53 (1851). 



Scotinophara coarctata, Stal, Hem, Fabr., i, p. 21 (1868) j En. Hem. v, p. 33 

 (1876). 



Body oblong, entirely obscure : very slightly shining ; head and 

 anterior part of thorax, black : thorax on each side with two small teeth, 

 one towards the apex, the other towards the base : scntellum coarctate 

 on both sides in the middle (Fabr.), 



d Differs from 8. bispinosa, Fabr. in having the thorax anteriorly 

 and the head more inclined, thorax scarcely transversely impressed in 

 the middle, teeth of its anterior and lateral angles minute, equal in size ; 

 anterior lateral margins straight, slightly rounded anteriorly {Stdl). 

 Long, 7 ; broad, 4 mill. 



Reported from Tranquebar, Ceylon. 



118. Scotinophara tarsalis, Vollenhoveu. 



Podops tarsalis, Voll., Fauue Ent. I'Arch. Indo-Neer. p. 42, t. 3, f. 8 (1863) ; 

 Walker, Cat. Het. iii, p. 520 (1868). 



Scotinophara tarsalis, Stal, En. Hem. v, p. 33 (1876) ; Distant, A. M. N. H. 

 (5 s.) iii, p. 44 (1879). 



Body above rather deep brown, covered all over with an immense 

 number of small black dots which have the effect of making it appear al- 

 most black : head and pronotum covered with a weak yellowish pubes- 

 cence : tylus a little more tumid than the juga of which the further angles 

 are weakly prolonged : the spine on the sides of the head rather robust : 

 first joint of antenna3 of an obscure brown, the rest of a light brown : 

 eyes blackish ; ocelli rather small : pronotum emarginate anteriorly and 

 with two strong, broad spines at the anterior angles ; lateral borders 

 weakly widened in the middle, and the lateral angles end in an acute 

 point followed by a small notch : scutellum rather flat, a little narrowed 

 before the middle and oval at the apex, usually with two glossy yellow 

 spots near the basal angles : body beneath, black, punctured, with a 

 spare yellow pubescence : rostrum light brown : femora and four first 

 tibiae black, posterior with half of the tibiae light brown which is the 

 colour of all the tarsi : angles of ventral segments and margins are 

 nodulose (VolL). Long, 6 mill. 



Reported from Java, Borneo, Assam. In Assam usually with legs 

 luteous puncUirod with black. 



