1889.] E. T. Atldnson— iV^o^OT on Indian Rhynchoto. 



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5- 2. Continued lateral streak on scutellum, iiitramarginal before 

 the middle, marginal behind the middle, also entire costal limbus, fla- 

 vescent : — Schizops. 



6- 1. Pectus with a levigate lateral streak (posteriorly abbreviated) 

 near the coxse; the streak genei'ally pale : — Qonopsis. 



First joiat of rostrum is hidden between the oval lateral pieces of 

 the head beneath ; second joint free, shortest ; 3-4 of equal length ; third 

 reaching first coxee ; the fourth reaches the middle of the carinate 

 mesosternum : membrane hardly half the size of the coriaceous portion 

 of the hemelytra. 



Genus Basicrtpttts, Herr. Schaif. 



Wanz. Ins., vii, p. 83 (1844) : Stal, En. Hem., v, p. 119 (1876). 



Juga rounded at the apex, contiguous beyond the tylus ; first joint 

 of rostrum entirely hidden, second shortest, 3-4 equally long, third 

 reaches the first pair of feet, fourth the middle of the finely ridged 

 mesostethium : membrane half as large as the coriaceous portion. 



426. Basicrtpttts illuminattts, Distant. 



Basienjpius illuminatus, Diat., Trans. Ent. Soo., p. 358 (1887). 



Body above dull dark reddish, pronotum with a broad, discal, trans- 

 verse, luteous band, margined black, attenuated at each end, and slightly 

 notched at the middle: eyes dull ochraceous; 1-3 joints of antennce red- 

 dish : lateral margins of the pronotum somewhat finely crenulated, the 

 lateral angles broadly and subacutely produced : soutellura with a small 

 luteous spot in each basal angle and a few very small luteous spots at 

 the apex, and with some median and lateral black punctures : base of 

 lateral margin of corium narrowly luteous, and with some very small 

 and irregular scattered black spots : membrane pale hyaline, somewhat 

 thickly ornamented with small fuscous spots : body beneath and legs 

 dull reddish, with black punctures : disc of sternum and some sublateral 

 streaks to abdomen obscm-e luteous: tarsal joint somewhat ochraceous 

 beneath (Dist.). Long, 14; exp. angl. pron., 10 mill. 



Reported from N". India. 



Genus ScHizops, Spinola. 



Schtjssops, Ess., p. 297 (1837) : Schimpf!, Am. & Serv., Hist. Nat. Ins. Hem., p. 176 

 (1843) ; Stal, pt.. Hem. Afrio., i, p. 234, 239 (1864) ; En. Hem., v, p. 118, 120 (1876). 



Head triangular, juga produced much beyond the tylus and forming 

 the apex of tlic triangle, rounded, bifid, the cleft very narrow, contracted 



