202 E. T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian Rhynchota. [No. 2, 



longer than the fifth : antenniferous tubercles spinous on the outside 

 (Dallas). Long, 10| mill. 

 Reported from Bengal. 



Genus Dalpada, Am. & Serv. 



Hist. Nat. Ins. Hem. p. 105 (181-3); Dallas, List Hem. i, p. 153 (1851) : Stal, 

 Hem. Afric. i, p. 80, 101 (1864) : Walker, Cat. Het. i, p. 218 (1867) : Stal, Ofvers.K. 

 V.-A. Forh. p. 508 (1867) ; En. Hem. v, p. 36, 43 (1876). Includes Udana, Walker, 

 1. c. iii, p. 549 (1863). 



Body oval or ovate : head scarcely or only very slightly convex : 

 jnga more or less distinctly sinuated at the apex outwards or obliquely 

 truncated : bucculae reaching the base of the head, angulated anteriorly, 

 autennre 5- jointed, slender, the first joint not or only very slightly ex- 

 tending beyond the juga, not longer than the marginal space of the 

 head lying between the eyes and the .place of insertion of the antennae : 

 eyes globose rather prominulous ; ocelli in a line with the base of the 

 eyes : rostrum extending a little beyond the last pair of feet, first joint 

 not or only slightly extended beyond the bucculae : anterior lateral 

 margins of the thorax crenulated : membrane with about six simple, 

 longitudinal veins : mesosternum carinated : venter slightly sulcated 

 at the base : feet somewhat long ; tibiae broadly furrowed above, first 

 pair sometimes dilated (Stal). 



128. Dalpada oculata, Fabricius. 



Cimev oculatus, Fabr., Syst. Ent. p. 703 (1775) ; Spec. Ins. ii, p. 347 (1781) ; 

 Mant. Ins. ii, p. 285 (1787) ; Ent. Syst. iv, p. 99 (1794). 



Hahjs oculata, Fabr., Syst. Rhyng. p. 181 (1803). 



Dalpada aspersa, Eilenr., Nat. Tijdssk. v. Ned. Ind. xxiv, p. 140, f. 8 (1862). 



Dalpada oculata, Dallas, List Hem. i, p. 184 (1851) ; Walker, Cat. Het. i, p. 218 

 (1867) ; Stal, Hem. Fabr. i, p. 22 (1868) ; En. Hem. v, p. 43 (1876) ; Distant, J. A. 

 S. B. xlviii (2), p. 37 (1879) ; A. M. N. H. (5 s.) iii, p. 45 (1879). 



Grey : antennae usually as long as the body, fuscous, with two 

 white rings ; head, fuscous, immaculate ; pronotum greyish or variegated 

 fuscous-testaceous, furnished posteriorly with a small, obtuse prominence ; 

 Rcutellum paler at the apex and at the base, on both sides with a very 

 glabrous yellow spot : hemelytra concolorous ; wings black : beneath 

 yellow with a lateral line, fuscous, and the margins of the abdomen 

 variegated fuscous and ferruginous : femora scabrous, pallid, black at 

 the apex ; tibiae black (annulated yellow), first pair dilated at the apex ; 

 tarsi pallid, black at the apex, four posterior feet pale, geniculae black 

 (Fabr.). Stal observes that the specimens usually found in collections 

 are clouded with fuscous-aeneous above, a large smooth spot at the 

 basal angles and nearly the third apical part of the scutellum, fl.aves- 

 cont, a^d the anterior tibiae are dilated. Long, 15 — 18 mill. 



