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B. T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian Rlij-ncliota. [No. 1, 



430. DiPLORHiNDs FDRCATUS, Westwood. 



Atelocerus ? furcatus, Westwood, Hope, Cat. Hem., i, p. 20 (1837). 

 Phyllocephala distans, Herr. Sohafe., Wanz. lug., vii, p. 71, t. 237, f. 740 (1844). 

 OrtJioscMxops ? furcata, Walker, Cat. Het., i, p. 232 (1867). 



Diplorhinus furcatus, Am. & Sew., Hist. Nat. Ins. Hem., p. 178, t. 3, f. 6 (1843) . 

 Dallas, List Hem., i, p. 359 (1851) ; Walker, 1. c. iii, p. 494 (1868) : Voll., Faune Ent! 

 I'Aroh. Ind. X^erl., p. 41 (1868) : Stal, En. Hem., v, p. 122 (1876). 



Fuscous: hemeljtra and scutellum a little paler: head large, por- 

 rect, bifurcate : antennas short, very slender, pale : pronotum scabrous, 

 sides serrate and posteriorly produced on both sides in a prominent 

 angle : median line on hemelytra, blackish : membrane hyaline, with 

 eight straight, black, longitudinal veins: feet lutescent (Westw.). In. 

 P. distans, H. S., the lateral margin of the hemelytra and a small longi- 

 tudinal line at base of the scutellum are ochreous ; beneath dark brown, 

 more red-brown posteriorly : feet yellow-brown. Long, 18-19 mill. 



Reported from Java, Sumatra. 



Genus Macuina, Arayot & Serville. 



Hist. Nat. Ins. Hem., p. 179 (1843): pt., Dallas, List Hem., i, p. 3S0 (1851) ; 

 Walker, Cat. Het., iii, p. 496 (1868) : Stal, Hem. Afric, i, p. 234, 244 (1864) ; En. 

 Hem., T, p. 118, 122 (1876). 



Body oblong-ovate : head triangular; jaga flat, very acute, contigu- 

 ous or Somewhat so ; in Indian species, the second joint of the antennes 

 extends at least by half beyond the apex of the head : sides of prono- 

 turn produced behind the middle in a gradually acuminated process, 

 turning outwards and more or less forwards : posterior angles of the 

 genitalia, in c?, hardly prominulous, rounded. 



431. Maorina dilatata. Distant. 



Macrina dilatata, Distant, A. M. N. H., (5 s.) iii, p. 45, 52 (1879): Waterliouse, 

 Aid, t. 6. 



Broad, ovate : head broad, triangular, moderately covered with deep 

 dark pnnctures ; juga slightly sinuated, divided at the apex, meeting be- 

 yond the tylus which is much shorter : antennse with the third joint 

 shortest ; fourth rather longer ; fifth longest, black, with the base rufous 

 (the first four joints vary in different specimens from rufous to luteous) : 

 rostrum reaching anterior coxeb : pronotum with the base slightly ruwu- 

 lose, somewhat ci-escent-shaped in front where it is bordered with a pale 

 luteous band between the lateral angles, which are produced into two 

 stout spines directed forwards ; spinal apices black : anterior portion of 

 the pronotum abruptly doflexed to the head, transversely oostate, nio- 



