FIVE NEW SPECIES OF THE RHYNCHOTAN 

 GENUS CORIXA. 



By the late C. A. Paiva and Cedric Dover. 



When Mr. W. L. Distant's third volume on the Rhynchota in 

 the " Fauna of British India" series was published in 1906, the 

 widely distributed Corixa hieroglyphica was the only species of the 

 genus then known from India. In 1910 Distant' described seven 

 more species and Paiva 2 recently added another two to the fauna 

 of British India, thus making a total of ten species in all. The 

 present note adds five more species to the list, and many more 

 species will no doubt eventually be described. 



This paper has been compiled from notes left by the late Mr. 

 Paiva. 8 My own share in its production has been mainly to check 

 Mr. Paiva's rough descriptions, give his species names, and compare 

 them with the other known species of the genus. As at the 

 close of this work I had obtained a good deal of knowledge of the 

 genus I have ventured to incorporate the description of another 

 species which I believe to be new. 



[C. Dover.'] 



Corixa rambhaensis, sp. nov. 



Two specimens from an ornamental fountain in the palace of the Raja of 

 Kallikota, Rambha, Ganjam District, Madras (N. Annandale, 3*xii' 13). 



Head stramineous, longer than width at base between eyes, 

 about half the greatest breadth of the pronotum , on each side 

 of the centre of the vertex with a short line of shallow punctures, 

 and a small tubercle on the middle of the hind margin; eyes large, 

 posteriorly overlapping the anterior angles of the pronotum. 



Pronotum ochraceous, with six dark castaneous transverse 

 fasciae ; about twice as broad as medial length ; obtusely angularly 

 rounded, behind lateral angles posteriorly somewhat acutely 

 pointed. 



Elytra very pale ochraceous, rather faintly mottled with 

 castaneous ; costal margin pale white. 



The body beneath and the legs pale ochraceous. 



Length 6' 15 mm. 



This species is closely allied to C. ftromontoria and C. dffinis, 



' Faun. Bnt. Ind. Rhyn. V, p 340, 1910. 



3 Rec. Ind. Mus. XIV, p. 19, 1918. 



s Dr. Annandale has published a short obituary notice of Mr. Paiva in his 

 Report on the Zoological Survey India, for tlieyears 1917-1920 (Calcutta: 1920), 

 which has also been adopted by Mr. T. Bainbrigge- Fletcher, Imperial Entomolo- 

 gist, in his Presidential address to the Fourth Entomological Meeting held at Pusa 

 in February, 1921. (See Rep. Proc. Fourth Ent. Meeting Pusa, 1921, p. 4.) 



