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



123. Storthecoris nigrigeps, Horvath. 

 Storthecoris nigriceps, Horv., Wien. Ent. Zeit. ii, p. 297 (1883). 



c?, $ . Fuscous-testaceous, rather densely punctured fuscous : head, 

 pectus and a very large discal patch on venter, black : juga extending 

 distinctly beyond the tylus, gradually a little dilated before the middle, 

 obliquely roundly truncated at the apex : spine of the antenniferous 

 tubercles, robust, straight, obliquely turning outwards and subacute at 

 the tip : the anterior lateral margins of the thorax behind the triangu- 

 lar gular process, very slightly rounded and dilated, the obsolete intra- 

 marginal furrow parallel with the margins : the continued median line 

 more or less obsolete on the thorax and three callous basal spots on the 

 scutellum, pallid : scutellum truncated at the apex ( (5*), or rounded Q : 

 membrane whitish-hyaline : lateral borders of metastethium and venter 

 broadly yellow-testaceous, punctured black ; ventral spiracula and 

 small basal spots on the connexivum, black ; rostrum, antennce and 

 feet, yellow-testaceous, variegated with black, sparingly greyish-pilose : 

 third joint of the antennae more than thrice longer than the second 

 (Horv.). Long, 7; broad, 4 mill. 



Reported from the Himalaya. 



Genus Amauropepla, Stal. 

 Ofvers. K. V.-A. Forli. p. 502 (1867) ; En. Hem. v, p. 34 (1876). 

 Differs from Scotinophara in having the head gradually narrowed 

 forwards before the anteocular sinus : the anterior lateral margins of the 

 thorax rounded and denticulate : head somewhat flat : tylus not 

 elevated. 



124. Amauropepla denticulata, Haglund. . 



Amauropepla denticulata, Haglund, Stettin. Eut. Zeit. xxix, p. 151 (1868) : Stal, 

 En. Hem.v, p. 34 (1876). 



c? . Oblong, above lurid, beneath black-fuscous, entirely densely 

 punctured black ; rostrum and feet sordid flavescent ; membrane and 

 wings whitish-hyaline, external margin of membrane hardly flavescent ; 

 thorax with the sides serrate and lateral angles boradly emarginate. 

 Head with tylus shorter than the juga which are hiscent at the apex ; 

 bucculae elevated : eyes very prominent, almost pedunculate : ocelli 

 placed a little behind an imaginary line drawn between the bise of the 

 eyes, twice more distant from each other than from the eyes : antenni- 

 ferous tubercles externally spinose, entirely visible from above : first 

 and second joints of the aatennse suboqual, one half the length of the 

 third ; rostrum short, reaching the middle between the anterior and 



