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



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membrane brownisli : margins of the abdomen banded with black and 

 orange, the middle of each segment being orange : the abdomen is thick- 

 ly and finely punctnred beneath ; the margins orange with a black spot 

 on each of the sntnres : legs black : antennas black with the apical joint 

 bright orange ; second joint much shorter than the third (Dallas). Long, 

 16-161 mill. 



Reported from Tenasserim. 



417. AspoNGOPUS ciRCUMCiNCTUS, Walker. 



Aspongopus cimimcinctus, Walker, Oat. Het., iii, p. 483 (1868). 



Aeneous-black, thickly and very finely punctured, brassy-piceous 

 beneath : eyes piceous : rostrum tawny : antennas black, second joint a 

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

 shorter than the fourth : sides of pronotnm and of abdomen, testaceous, 

 deeper on the latter : pronotum and scutellum transversely and very 

 slightly striated, the latter piceous at the tip : cerium piceous, membrane 

 lurid (Walker). Long, 15-16 mill. Allied to A. Millleri, Voll, (Java), 

 but differs in the dark colour of the head and of the under-side of the 

 body and is probably only a local variety. 



Reported from India. 



418. ASPONGOPOS NIGRO-AENEUS, Renter. 

 Aspongopus niijro-aeneus, Renter, Ent. Mon. Mag. xvii, p. 234 (1881). 



Entirely brassy- black : head, pronotum and scutellum densely and 

 finely punctured, obsolotely transversely rugose : sides of head distinctly 

 sinuate : second joint of the antennte a little over half longer than the 

 first, 2-3 compressed, third longer than the second : aj)ical margin of the 

 corium slightly rounded : prostethium triangularly impressed in the 

 middle, margins of impression scarcely reflexed. Differs from A. oclire- 

 ous, Westw., in the colour, the impression on the prostethium, being less 

 deep, the denser punctuation, and the faint wrinkles (Beufer). Long, 

 161 mill. 



Reported from Siam. 



Genus Megymenum, Laporte. 

 Ess. Hem., p. 52 (1832) : Boisd., Voy. Astrolabe, Ins., ii, p. 632 (1S35) : Gnenn, 

 Yoy. La Coqnille, Ins., ii, p. 171 (1838) : Stal, ofvei-s. K. V.-A. Forh., p. 522 (lsti7) : 

 En. Hem., i, p. 86 (1870). Includes :—PseHd«m(2(ts, Barm., Silb, Eev. Ent., ii, p. 19 

 (1884) : Amauriis, Bui-m., Nov. Act. Acad. Leop. xvi, Suppt. p. 294 (1834) : Platydiug, 

 Westw., Zool. Journ. v., p. 446 (1835). 



Head large or somewhat so ; juga much longer than the tyliis and 



