1889,] E. T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian Rbynchofa. 



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orange : pronotum wifcli the anterior portion olive, rather coarsely but 

 spai-ingly punctured with black, and with a broad, impunctate, orange 

 band near the anterior margin ; posterior portion ferruginous, rather 

 thickly punctured with black ; lateral angles produced into long, acute, 

 red spines, which are directed a little forwards, but have the apex 

 slightly turned back ; the basal portion of these spines is coarsely 

 punctured with black, the apex smooth. Scutellum ferruginous olive, 

 sparingly and irregularly punctured with black ; the apex testaceous : 

 hemelytra thickly and rather strongly punctured with black, with the 

 outer mai'gin, as far as the submarginal vein, olive ; membrane trans- 

 parent, brownish : body beneath orange ; pectus yellowish ; abdomen 

 with the posterior angles of the last segment, and the posterior margins 

 of the intermediate and apical vulvar plates, bright red; legs pale 

 yellowish olive, with the base of the femora and the tarsi orange-testa- 

 ceous : rostrum short, testaceous : antennjE pale olive {Dallas). Long, 

 16-17 mill. 



Reported from India, Darjiling (mihi). 



318. Anaxandea corktjta, Dallas. 

 Acanthosoma comutum, Dallas, Trans. Ent. Soc, v, p. 193, t. 19, f . 6 (1849) ; 

 List Hem., i, p. 312 (1851) i Walker, Oat. Het., ii, p. 391 (1807). 

 Anaxandm cornuta, Stal, En. Hem., v, p. 114 (1876). 



(? , ? . Above olive, slightly clouded with yellowish, rather thickly 

 and strongly punctured : pronotum with the lateral angles strongly 

 cornuted ; the processes being more darkly coloured than the rest of the 

 surface : the antero-lateral margins of the pronotum beneath are greenish : 

 scutellum acute, slightly sinuated on each side, immediately before the 

 apex ; hemelytra thickly and strongly punctured ; membrane brownish at 

 the base, particularly at the internal angles : joints of the antennss con- 

 colorous with the body, the apex, and sometimes the whole of the joints 

 pitchy : legs pale brownish yellow, with the tibiro and tarsi somewhat 

 darker : ventral spine long, reaching as far as the base of the anterior 

 legs. 



t?. With the pronotal processes dark olive green, rounded at the 

 apex, beneath flat, but not grooved : the membrane is pale and semitrans- 

 pai'ent ; the abdomen above red, with broad whitish margins : the body 

 honeath is pale ochraceous, with a reddish tinge towards the apex of the 

 abdomen : ventral spine pale. 



9 . With the pronotal processes pitchy, very acute, the apex recurv- 

 ed and tipped with bright orange, strongly channelled beneath ; the mem- 

 brane is brownish ; the abdomen beneath pitchy brown, darkest at the 

 apex, and palest on the outer margins and along the median ridge ; ven- 



