1889.] E. T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian Rliyncliota. 



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tips, where they are black, dilated and recurved ; scutellum less tlian half 

 the length of the abdomen : pectoral ridge pale testaceous, extending to 

 the head : abdomen ferruginous, pale testaceous along each side, black 

 at the tip ; beneath with a pale testaceous stripe ; ventral spine pale 

 testaceous, lanceolate : legs slender, pale testaceous : hemelytra pale 

 testaceous towards the base and along the hind border, and with a large 

 pale testaceous apical spot which extends to the oosta ; membraua 

 brown: wings cinereous {Wallcar). Long, llj mill. 

 Reported from India. 



.309. AcANTiiosoMA (?) Nn.niicoRNis, Walker. 



Acanthosoma nigricornis, Walker, Cat. Het., iii, p. 574 (1868). 

 Tawny, elongate-oval, roughly and thinly punctured, testaceous 

 beneath : head slightly acute, transversely and finely striated ; sides 

 reflexed : eyes piceous, not prominent : rostrum extending to the inter- 

 mediate coxee, tip black: antenniB black, slender; first and second 

 joints tawny ; first extending much beyond the front of the head ; 

 second a little longer than the third ; fourth longer than the second and 

 than the fifth : prouotum with a transverse callus on each side in front ; 

 horns black, stout, shorter than the intermediate breadth, very slightly 

 curved backward, tapering from the base to the tips, which are slightly 

 rounded: scutellum very slightly ridged, loss than half the length 

 of the abdomen, much attenuated at the tip, which is rounded : pectoral 

 ridge deep, extending to the head : abdomen black towards the tip 

 above ; ventral spine extending to the middle coxis : legs testaceous, 

 slender : hemelytra with a brown costal stripe, which widens towards 

 the tip ; membrane brown : wings brownish cinereous {WalJcer). Long 

 14| mill. 



Reported from India. 



Genus Sasteagala, Am. & Serv. 



Hist. Nat. Ins. Hem., j). 155 (1813). Includes 4coiiYftt)so;na, pt., Dallas, List 

 Horn., i, p. 303 (1851): Stal, Oofvors. K. V.-A. Fiirh., p. 038 (1870J ; Ku. Hem., 

 V, p. 110, 113 (1870). 



Prouotum antoi-iorly levigate ; within the levigate and more or less 

 distinctly elevated apical margin with fewer punctures, which are placed 

 in a row sometimes confused or here and there double ; process of the 

 lateral angles obtusely rounded, horizontal, not turning forwards : 

 scutellum narrow at the apex : apical angles of sixth abdominal seg- 

 ment, in d", straight or somewhat acute, not rounded : mesostethial 

 ridge not produced hindwards, not, or but very slightly, extending be- 



