682 
RHYNCHOTA. 
mon and abundant in the plains and a further small number are found 
here and there where abundant trees and vegetation offer food and shel¬ 
ter. Four sub-families are recognised, distinguished by the troublesome 
and obscure characters that Hemipterists choose for the purpose of 
classification and which we omit in this place. The student may see 
them in Volume I of the Khynchota, in the Fauna of India. 
Coreince include a large number of the large brown species with dila¬ 
ted legs and expanded pronota found principally in the hills. 
Anoplocnemis phasiana, Fabr., is the 
commonest species and is found rarely 
in the plains, mainly in the hilly local¬ 
ities. It is said to live on Erythrina 
and occurs also on shrubs and grass in 
many parts of India where the vegeta¬ 
tion is sufficiently abundant. Dalader 
has the abdomen much produced later¬ 
ally, and, like the remainder, is the colour 
of a dead leaf. Apparently the expan¬ 
sions of legs, antennae, pronotum and 
abdomen found in these insects are de¬ 
signed to give the insect a resemblance 
to a dead leaf, but it is far less efficiently 
effected than in the Lepidoptera and Orthoptera. Dalader acuticosta, 
Am. et Serv., and D. planiventris, Westd., are the common species, 
neither found abundantly. 
Fig. 444— Anoplocnemis 
PHASIANA. 
In Homceocerus (Plate LXXVI, fig. 8) this type gives place to a less 
grotesque-looking form, without leaf-like expansions. This genus in¬ 
cludes many species closely similar, some of which are found commonly 
on trees in the plains. It is not easy to discriminate individual species 
without the aid of a named collection. Of the 33 species recorded by 
Distant, less than ten are found in the plains and these only occasion¬ 
ally. Some feed on weeds (H. variabilis, Dali.), others on such trees as 
Sissoo (H. inornatus , Stab, H. Icevilineus, Stab). The latter are not 
uncommon where this tree grows, the nymphs being of the delicate 
green of the leaves among which they feed. H . inornatus sits near 
the end of a twig, and the green colouring with the dull black of the 
