188'.),] E. T. Atkinson— A't-ifps on Indian Rliyiichotn.. 



middle : feet somewhat short, femora armed with two spines beneath at 

 the apex : last pair of tibia? about equal in length to the femora : 1-2 

 joints of tarsi equally long : allied to Hypencha, Am. & Sery. but 

 structure of head and of sterna different [Stdl). 



309. Amissi's atlas, Stal. 



Amissus atlas, Stal, Trans. Ent. Soc, (3 s.) i, p. 590 (1863); Walker, Cat. Hot., 

 iii,'p. 466 (1868) ; Stal, En. Hem., i, p. 70 (1870). 



y. Fuscous-castaneous : narrow limbus and posterior part of 

 pronotum, apex of scutollum, hemelytra, coxiB, trochanters and margin 

 of abdomen, weakly castaneous : autennse, veins of hemelytra and the 

 tarsi sub-castaneous-yellow : apical angles of abdominal segments, 

 black : pronotum robustly cornutod : head with the sides subparallel, 

 and slightly sinuate in the middle, subtruncate at the apex, more than 

 twice longer than the breadth: second joint of antennra somewhat 

 longer than the third, but shorter than the apical : pronotum remotely 

 distinctly punctured, posteriorly somewhat smoother, lateral angles 

 obliquely produced forwards in long, depressed, slightly arcuate horns ; 

 anterior lateral margins crenulated : soutellum remotely, distinctly, 

 punctured, smooth at the apex : hemelytra densely punctured, veins 

 smooth : beneath densely alutaceous (Stal). Long, 41 ; broad, 19 mill. 

 Reported from Singapore, Tenasserim. 



Div. EUSTHENABIA (p. 52). 



Genus EusTHisNES, Laporte. 

 Ess. Hmi. p. 64 ( L832) ; Am. & Serv., Hist. Nat. Ins. Ho'm., p. 167 (1843) ; 

 Dallas, List Hem., i, p. 342 (1850) ; Walker, Cat. Het., iii, p. 467 (1868) : Stal, Hem.' 

 Afrio., i, p. 225 (1864) ; En. Hem., i, p. 71, 230 (1870). 



Head almost squarely truncate at the tip : antennas rather long : 

 pronotum transverse, lateral margins defined, postei-ior angles prominent 

 but rounded, posterior margin not extending itself over the scutellum : 

 sternal ridge not prolonged beyond the intermediate pair of feet and 

 consisting only of a kind of plate placed between those and the last pair, 

 straightly truncate posteriorly, and rounded anteriorly, narrower in the 

 (? : scutellum not reaching the middle of the abdomen, its tip ending in 

 a small, almost square and spoon-shaped, prolongation : four vulvar pieces 

 in 2, square at their tip ; aaal plate, in c?, not near so broad as in 

 Tessamtoma: feet very robust, first pair rather small, intermediate 

 longer ; posterior femora much longer and stouter than the intei'mediate 

 especially in the (5', with a strong hook-like spine at the base; all the 

 femora with two weak spines towards their tips, those of the first pair hard- 



