1889.] E. T. Atkinson— .2Vo/es tm Indwn Rliyncliota. 



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scutcllum covered witli transverse wrinkles wliicli give it a leatliery 

 appearance : apex of scutellum and hemelytra brown-ferruginous : sides 

 of pronotum a little dilated, lateral margins dilated, rounded : abdomen 

 dentate on the margins : anus emarginate : all the femora beneath with 

 two spines, side by side, before the apex ; posterior femora long, very 

 stout, having a large, strong and very pointed spine towards their base ; 

 tibiK very arcuate, especially at the base (Sery.). The anal plate in the 

 c? is short and almost straightly truncate at the tip : in the 9 , the anal 

 plate is bilobed, and also the pronotum is more deeply wrinkled, and the 

 ventral grooves are neither so long nor so deep. 



Pronotum distinctly broader than the base of the liemelytra, anterior 

 lateral margins somewhat dilated, distinctly rounded behind the middle, 

 lateral angles distinctly prominent, obtuse : apical part of scutellum 

 prodaced behind the frena, somewhat broadish, subquadrate, obtusely 

 rounded at the apex, flavescent-castaueous : mesostethial wrinkle or 

 ridge posteriorly convexly elevated : the metastethium not pallescent, 

 at least iu ? , narrowed somewhat forwards before the middle, behind 

 the middle, first narrowed somewhat hindwards, then furnished with 

 parallel sides, trancated at the base, broader at the base than at the 

 apex : second ventral segment elevated in the middle and touching the 

 metastethiam : venter marked obliquely behind the spiracula with a 

 small yellow-castaneous spot: last tibiee in c?, curved; in 9 , straight, 

 narrowly furrowed beneath from the base, hardly beyond the middle : 

 last tarsi with the first joint at the apex and second at the base yellow- 

 castaneous : wings obscurely subviolaceous-fuscous : dorsum of abdomen 

 opaque (SMZ). Long, 36-46 mill. 



ileported from Java, India, Sibsagar (As.sam). 



371. EosTHENJiS sc'L'TELLARis, Herrich SchiifEer. 



Tesseratoma scutellaris, Herr. Sohaff., Wanz. Ins. W, p. 81, t. 133, f. 410(1839): 

 WiilK-er, Oat. Uet., iii, p. 403 (ISGS). 



Eusther.es miitoi; Voll., Faun. Ent. I'.^ircb Inrto-Ni'cn-., iii, p. 29 (186S). 



Eusthenes scutallans, Stal, En. Horn., i, p. 71, 231 (1870) ; Distant, A. M. N. H. 

 (5 B.) iii, p. 45 (1870). 



Dark castaneous-brown : liead, scutellum, abdomen, antennaa and feet 

 darker, ajjex of the fourth joint of the autouuaa ferruginous : above spar- 

 ingly punctured : pronotum and scutellum transversely rugose ; apex of 

 scutellum narrow, produced : last femora incrassate, having near the 

 base inwards, a very long , somewhat curved tooth and before the apex 

 two teeth: last tibiee stout, arcuate {Herr. ScMff), c?, beneath usually 

 of a very obscure brown with a violet tinge, and the 9 of a brown-red. 

 Stal remarks that this species differs from 7? robvslns, Sorv., in its smaller 

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