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E. T. Atkinson — Notes on IinUaii- Rli3-ucliota. 



[No. 1, 



notum with a long, stout, acute spine on each side : margins of abdomen 

 with a brassy-green spot on each segment : body beneath and legs some- 

 what fulvous ; sternal ridge bright fulvous ; antenute pitchy brown 

 (Dallas). Long, 17f ; breadth of shoulders, 16f mill. 



Above rosy, except the base of the head and the anterior inclined 

 part of the pronotum which like the body beneath are luteous : posterior 

 part of pronotum punctured black ; lateral horns rather long, turning a 

 little forwards, rounded at the apex, (P. roseus, Voll). Long, 18 mill. 

 ■Reported from Malacca, Burma. 



368. Pygoplatys minax, Vollenhoven. 



Pygoplatys niiniKc, Voll., Faune But. I'Arch. Ind. Neorl., iii, ji. 23, t. 3, f. 3 

 (1868). 



5 . Above obscurely fulvous, beneath, luteous-ochraceous : head 

 reddish oohraceous ; ej'es glaucous, ocelli yellow placed on small, black, 

 cuneiform spots :, antenuEB of a deeper red, pronotum very broad; lateral 

 angles in the form of horns, rather broad at the base, recurved, diminish- 

 ing in size towai'ds the tip which is obliquely truncated, their colour 

 is of a deeper red than the disc, marked with small black impressed 

 punctures, the rest of the pronotum is indistinctly punctured, excejjt the 

 transverse part near the anterior margin, posterior margin yellowish : 

 scutellum lightly sprinkled with impressed dots, apex channelled : corium 

 very finely punctured, disc paler ; membrane hyaline, colourless : the 

 portion of the abdomen extending beyond the hemelytra is broad, slightly 

 purplish red ; the angles of the segments are denticulate and touch almost 

 a submarginal black band : feet and tibias with a reddish tinge {Vull.). 

 Long, 19 mill. 



Reported from Borneo : Indian Museum has a specimen from Johore. 

 Possibly P. ralandii, Voll. (1. c), is only a variety. 



Genus Amissus, Stal. 



Trans. Ent. Soc, (3 s.) i, p. 595 (1863) : En. Hoi.i. i, p. 70 (1870). 



Body, large, oval: head subelongate ; jugavery long, contiguous be- 

 fore the tylus ; bucculee much elevated : ocelli remote from the eyes : 

 antennte 4-jointed : posterior margin of pronotum roundly produced in 

 the middle above the base of the scutellum, which is itself produced at 

 the apex : apical margin of corium straight, apical angle rounded ; 

 membrane furnished at the base with many areolas, emitting longitudinal 

 veins : mesostethium elevated, anteriorly somewhat produced and cleft : 

 metastethium slightly elevated, posteriorly very broadly sinuate : se- 

 cond ventral segment slightly elevated and produced at the base in the 



