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



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396. Dalcantha dilatata, Am. & Serville. 



Dalcaiitha dilatata, Am. & Sary., Hist. Nat. Ins. Hem. p. 171 (1843); Dallas, 

 List Hem., i, p. 3-15 (1853) ; Walker, Cat. Het,, iii, p. 473 (1868) ; Stal, En. Hem. i, 

 p. 76 (1870). 



? . Head,pronotum, scutellum and hemelytra of a deep green above, 

 tliiekly and finely punctured or tuberculated : pronotum edged brown oh 

 the sides, on tbe disc witb two red elongate rings pointing towards tho 

 external margin : lateral margins and apex of the scutellum, of a reddish 

 yellow ; membrane and wings, transparent nacreous, yellow-greenisli : 

 abdomen above of a yellow-red, the lateral dilatations brown-reddisli, 

 marked with some yellowish lines : body beneath yellow, mottled with 

 brownish : feet yellowish : antennee black, first joint yellowish, tip of 

 tho fourth joint sulphiir yellow (Am. Serv.). Long, 27 mill. 



Reported from India. 



397. Dalcantha Stblti, Vollenhoren. 



Dalcantha St^lii, YoUenhoveu, Tijdsclir. v. E.it. Ned. Ind., (2 Scr.) i, p. 220, t. 

 11, f. 8 (1866) ; Stal, En. Horn., i, p. 76 (1870). 



Dalcantha regia, Walker, Cat. Het., iii, p. 474 (18S8). 



Purplish or fuscous black above, testaceous or luteous beueath 

 with margins infuscate : head, pronotum and hemelytra, extremely minute- 

 ly and thickly punctured : head finely and obliquely striated on each 

 side in front : eyes testaceous ; disc piceous : antennaa black, first joint 

 tawny, testaceous beneath; third hardly longer than second; fourth 

 testaceous towards the tip, shorter than the second: pronotum, fore 

 part excepted, transversely and very finely striated, the fore part dilated, 

 very slightly angular on each side : scutellum transversely and minutely 

 rugulose, pale yellow at tho tip : abdomen widening from the base to 

 the fourth segment where it extends much beyond the hemelytra ; 5-6 

 segments much narrower : membrane brown ; pronotum less dilated than 

 in D. inermipes, from which it differs also in the femora having two 

 spines near the tips (Wallcer). Long, 25; breadth of abd. at base, 12; 

 in fourth segment, 18 mill. 



Reported from Silhat, Siljsagar (Assam). 



398. DALCANTfIA INERMIPES, Stal. 

 Dalcantha inermipes, Stal, Trans. But. Soo., (3 s.) i, p. 599 (1863) ; Walker, Cat. 

 Hot., iii, p. 473 (1868) ; Stal, En. Hem., i, p. 76 (1870). 



d". Above obscurely ferruginous-SBneotis, beneath with feet and 

 costal limbus of hemelytra from base almost to middle, testaceous- 

 flavesccnt, sparingly varied ferruginous; median longitudinal line on 

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