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RHYNCHOTA. 
Dinidorince. The scutellum small, membrane large. Cyclopelta 
includes several species of which C. siccifolia, Westw. (Plate LXXIV, 
fig. 11), appears to be the most common. 
This insect is found feeding upon cul¬ 
tivated pulses, and its eggs are laid 
in clusters upon the shoots. Aspongopus 
includes several closely similar species 
of which there are three common gener¬ 
ally. A. janus, F., has the pronotum 
and base of elytra bright red, the head, 
base of scutellum and membrane of wings 
black (Plate LXXIV, fig. 3). A. brunneus, 
Thunb., and A. obscurus, F., are dull 
brown above, the former with the 
abdomen above (under the wings), red, 
the latter with it black. These insects 441— Tessas, atom a papil- 
losa Dr. nymth. 
are commonly found on low crops, among 
roots, stones, etc. One species, A. nepalensis, Westw., is stated to be 
used as food by natives of Assam, pounded with rice. (Garman in 
Distant.) It is probable that the insect gives a powerful aromatic 
flavour to the rice. Megymenum parallelum, Voll., is one of the many 
black bugs found among fallen leaves, stones, etc., of whose food 
nothing is known. 
Phyllocephcdince. —This sub-family includes few common species, 
characterised by the markedly lobate head. The single species Randolo- 
tus elongatus , Dist., with the three species (M. rostratus , Fabr., M. trun- 
catus, Westw., M. limatus, Herr Sch.) of Megarhynchus appear to be far 
more general than the recorded distribution would show. They are of 
peculiar “dry grass” colour as befits their habitat and are typically in¬ 
habitants of long dry grass in waste lands. (Plate LXXIV, fig. 9.) Te- 
troda histeroides, Fabr., is a black species, sent from Salem as a pest of rice, 
with Podops coarctata , F. 
Urostylince. —Three genera of insects not common generally. Uro- 
labida is without ocelli, and includes the only common species U. histri- 
onica, Westw., a greenish insect with dull yellow markings, with long an¬ 
tennae and short rostrum (Plate LXXIV, fig. 6); the bug is found 
upon the leaves of trees and is known from the Himalayas and places 
