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E. T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian Rliyncliota. [No. 1, 



antennsB black : abdomen scarcely denticulate on tlie lateral margins, 

 upper border black witli red patclies, lower, red with black patches : 

 femora with two small spines placed side by side near the apex and 

 others along them (Serv.). A. depressicornis, Herr. Sohaff., is described 

 as : — Fuscous, ovate ; above very flat, coriaceous, coarse, dark red-brown, 

 dull ; fore-border of pronotum and both the humeral protuberances 

 smoother, redder : antennce 4-jointed, 2-3 joints depressly dilated : spots 

 at base and apex of scutellum and on the connexivum, orange : venter 

 convex, smoother, sordid orange varied brown : feet oastaneous. 



This species varies much in colour: sometimes blackish, sometimes 

 obscurely ferruginous, beneath paler, sometimes ferruginous-flavescent ; 

 connexivum and ventral limbus marked with ferruginous or yellow- 

 ferruginous spots : basal spot on the scutellum distinct [sometimes 

 absent]. Long, 14-15 mill. 



Reported from Assam, Sikkim (mihi), Calcutta, Madras: China, 

 Philippines, Malacca, Java, Borneo. 



404. Cyclopelta teimaculata, Vollonhoven. 



Cyclopelta trimaculata, Toll., Fauue Ent. I'Arcli. Ind. Neerl, iii, p. 37, t. 4, f . 4 

 (1868) ; Stal, En. Hem., i, p. 80 (ISVO). 



Black-purplish : a small line or oblong spot on the side of the prono- 

 tum, triangular spot at base of scutellum united by a median line with 

 a spot on the apex and two submarginal streaks on venter, yellow : ros- 

 trum, feet and border of connexivum, red (VolL). Probably only a local 

 variety. Long, 13-16 mill. 



Reported from Malacca, Borneo. 



406. Cyclopelta taetaeeA, Stal. 



Cydopelta tartarea, Stal, Ofvers. K. T.-A. FSrh., p. 234 (1851) ; 1. o. p. 64 (18.56) ; 

 Walker, Cat. Het., iii, p. 480 (1868) : Stal, En. Hem. i, p. 80 (1870) : Distant, A. M. 

 N. H. (5 s.) iii, p. 45 (1879). 



c?. Entirely blackish or suboupreous blackish above, coriaceous, 

 punctured, transversely rugose : sometimes a minute sanguineous spot 

 at the base of the scutellum : membrane fuscous ochraceous : beneath 

 black, somewhat shining seruginose. Differs from 0. obscnra, only in 

 having the connexivum concolorous, neither broadly red, nor spotted 

 black, and in the feet being more obscure. Long, 15 ; broad, 9 mill. 

 Reported from Himalaya, Bombay, Ceylon, very common in Sikkim 

 (mihi). Long, 10-11 mill. I have an entirely black small species from 

 Vizagapatam and Dehi-a Dun. On the whole, the links between these 

 three species are rather fairly established, and the two latter may be 



