196 E. T, Atkinrion — Kales on Indian Rlijncliota. [No. 2, 



119. ScoTiNOPHARA OBSCURA, Dallas. 



Podops ohscurus, Dallas List Hem. i, p. 52 (1851) ; Voll., Faune Ent. I'Arch. 

 Indo-Neer. p. 41, t. 3, f. 6 (1863) ; Walker, Cat. Het. i, p. 72 (1867). 



Scotinophara ohscura, Stal, En. Hem. v. p. 34 (1876) ; Distant, A. M. N. H. (5 s.) 

 iii, p. 44 (1879). 



Above brown, obscure, thickly and rather finely punctured ; head 

 rather small, black, narrowed in front ; juga longer than the tylus, but 

 not meeting in front of it, a small spine on each side in front of the 

 eyes : thorax blackish in front, with a short spine at each anterior 

 angle, the antero-lateral margins nearly straight, and the lateral angles 

 emarginate : scutellum reaching the apex of the abdomen, distinctly 

 truncated at the apex, constricted a little before the middle : body be- 

 neath pitchy black, very thickly and finely punctured and sparingly 

 clothed with short golden hairs : femora black with an indistinct pale 

 band near the apex : tibiae and tarsi pale brown : rostrum and antennas 

 pitchy ( Dallas). Long, 7 — 8 mill. 



Reported from Assam, Tenasserim, Borneo, Java. 



120. Scotinophara nigra, Dallas. 



Podops niger, Dallas, List. Hem. i, p. 53 (1851) j Walker, Cat. Het. i, p. 72 

 (1867). 



Scotinophara nigra, Stal, En. Hem. v, p. 34 (1S76). 



Pitchy black, somewhat obscure, thickly punctured, sprinkled with 

 yellowish hairs : head rather long, with a strong spine before each eye ; 

 tylus as long as the juga, elevated into a tubercle about the middle : 

 thorax gibbous in front, with a faint furrow across the middle ; the 

 antero-lateral margins reflexed, rounded ; a long spine directed for- 

 wards, on each side at the anterior margin, and a small one at each 

 lateral angle ; scutellum as long as the abdomen, contracted before the 

 middle, somewhat truncated at the apex, with a small pit in each basal 

 angle : outer margin of the hemelytra and the edge of the abdomen 

 pitchy red : legs concolorous ; tarsi ferruginous : rostrum pitchy red, 

 with the basal joint black : antennae pitchy (Dallas) . Long, 7^-8 

 mill. 



Reported from India ? 



121. Scotinophara spinifera, Westwood. 



Podops spinifera, Westwood, Hope, Cat. Hem. i, p, 16 (1837) ; Stal, En. Hem. 

 V, p. 125 (1876). 



Black, coarsely punctured ; head anteriorly attenuated, subtruncate 

 at the apex ; a porrect spine on both sides before the eyes : pronotum 

 scabrous anteriorly, abruptly elevated, sides acutely serrate and furnish- 



