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



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tallic green stripes; disc longitudinally and very finely sti'iated : heme- 

 Ij'tra extremely minutely and thickly punctured, partly and sliglitly 

 tinged with ieneous-green ; membrane cinereous (Walher). Body 

 long, 32-33 mill. 



Reported from India : appears to be intermediate between P. po)i- 

 derosum, Stal, and Caiyoua angulata, Stal, (Siam). 



394. Ptcantim (?) pallipbs, "Walker. 



Pycanum pallipes, Walker, Oat. Het., iii, p. 473 (18G8). 



Blackish green, pale luteous beneath : head, pronotum and scutel- 

 lum very thickly and minutely punctured : head pale luteous behind, 

 and with an interrupted stripe of that hue : eyes pale luteous, with 

 ferruginous disc: antenna luteous; second joint more or less bi-own 

 above; third brown, yellow towards the tip, much shorter than the se- 

 cond ; fourth black, yellow towards the base, a little shorter than the 

 second: pronotum with a very narrow luteous border, transversely and 

 finely striated; fore part on each side much dilated, longitudinally 

 striated, forming a well defined right angle : scutellum transversely ru- 

 gulose : abdomen above purple ; connexivum deep green, bordered with 

 brown, and, at the tip, with pale luteous : hemelytra blackish, irregularly 

 red about the borders ; membrane emerald green : wings blackish cinere- 

 ous (Walker). Body long, 25 mill. 



Reported from N. India. Walker notes that it appears to be a 

 link between Pyeammi and Dalcantlia, and is close to D. stodii, Voll, 



Genus OsYLOBUS, Stal. 

 En. Hem., i, p. 75 (1870). 



Body ovate : head small, gradually somewhat sinuately narrowed 

 before the eyes ; juga contiguous, rounded at the ajiex ; ocelli twice as 

 far from each other as from the eyes : rostrum reaching middle of 

 tnesostcthium : antennra 4-jointed, fourth joint longer than the second : 

 sides of pronotum dilated : prostethium longitudinally sulcate : mesoste- 

 thium with a depressed, continued ridge or wrinkle, furrowed through 

 its entire length : metastethium not elevated : abdomen gradually amp- 

 lified hindwards, angles of segments acute, very slightly promiuuloua, 

 sixth segment very broad, apical angles acute, produced to a distance : 

 basal segments of venter not elevated in the middle : feet moderate ; 

 tibifB straight ; last pair somewhat equal to femora in length : differs 

 from Pycanum in the shape of the abdomen (Stal). 



