1881).] E T. Atkinson— iVb/es on IwUan Rliyncliota. G9 



scntellum very darlc olivaceous witli the apex castaneous : membrane 

 shining brassy brown : basal and apical joints of the antennre ochraceous, 

 the last with the apex blackish, 2—3 joints blackish, base of second 

 joint very narrowly ochraceous : apical joint somewhat longest, 2 very 

 slightly longer than 3 : body beneath bi-ownish-oohraceous, or, in some, 

 castaneous : legs castaneous, tarsi very slightly pale : pronotum finely, 

 transversely striate ; scutellum more coarsely striate ; corium thickly 

 and finely punctate : posterior femora with a long spine and a double 

 row of short spines on apical half of the under surface, of which the two 

 last are the longest. The elongate form of the body and the colour of 

 the antenniB distinguish this species which is variable : connexivum 

 generally purplish brown, with a more or less distinct ochraceous spot 

 at the base of the segments (Disf.). Long, 35-36; exp. augl. prou,. 



Reported from Khasiya Hills (Assam) ; Nepal. 



Genus Eoeostus, Dallas. 



List Hem., i, p. 342 (1851) j Walker, Cat. Het., ii!, p. 408 (1868) : Stal, Hera. 

 Afi-ic, i, p. 235 (1864) ; En. Horn., i, p. 72 (1876). 



Head longer than broad, narrowed in front, with the apex slightly 

 emarginate : antennre 4-jointed, second joint longer than the third, 

 fourth about equal to the second : rostrum 4-jointed, scarcely reach- 

 ing the middle of the mesostethium, second joint longest, 3-4 nearly 

 equal, shorter than the first ; pronotum with the lateral angles unarmed , 

 posterior margin not produced : scutellum, short, not reaching the middle 

 of the abdomen ; the apex small and rounded, somewhat spoon-shaped : 

 abdomen unarmed at the base: sternum without a ridge: legs stout; 

 the four anterior femora with two spines beneath close to the apex, last 

 pair much incrassated ( (?), with a very long acute spine near the base, 

 two shorter ones near the apex, and a double row of minute spines, or 

 acute tubercles, running along the under surface (Dallas). 



379. EuKOSTUs vALiDos, Dallas. 



Eurostus validiis, DsiIIag, List Hem. i, p. 343, t. 11, f. 2 (1851) ; Wiilkor Cat 

 Het. iii, p. 468 (1868) ; Stal, En. Hera, i, p. 72 (1870), 



<?. Elongate-ovate, deep chestnut, punctured : head finely rugose : 

 pronotum minutely punctured, faintly transversely rugose, witli the an- 

 terior and lateral margins, black : scutellum coarsely rugose, with the 

 disc finely, the margins coarsely, punctured ; with the latei'al margins 

 and the tip blackish : coiium rather paler than the rest of the surface 

 very thickly and laiuiitoly [junctured : membrane brownish, semitrans- 



