1918.] C. A. Paiva : Rhyncliota from Barhuda I. 15 



[This species usually rests on the bark of trees, on which it is very 

 inconspicuous. It is not at all rare on Barkuda.] 



In one sex, probably the female, the tegmina have, besides the 

 piceous transverse fascia at apices of ulnar veins, another piceous 

 transverse fascia between this fascia and the base. 



Recorded from Bengal ; Calcutta ; Bombay ; Bangalore ; Ceylon : 

 Tangalla ; Andamans. 



Family MEMBRACIDAE. 



[I doubt whether any species of this family breeds on the island.] 



Leptocentrus substitutus (Walk.) 



1851. Centrotus substitutus. Walker, List Horn. II, p. 605. 



1858. Centrotus obliquus, Walker, Ins. t^aund., Horn. p. 79. 



1858. Centrotus flexicorne. Walker, Ins. Saund., Ham. p. 78. 



1885. Leptocentrus substitutus, Atkin.son, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal LIV, p. 87. 



1886. ? Centrotus flexicorne, Atkinson, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal LV, p. 197. 

 1886. ? Centrotus obliquus, id. ibid. LV, p. 197. 



1908. Lejjtocentrus substitutus. Distant, Faun. Brit. Ind. Rhyn. IV, p. 29. 

 1916. Leptocentrus substitutus, Distant, Faun. Brit. Ind. Rhyn. VI (Appendix), 

 p. 154. 



Barkuda, 15— 22-vii-16, 25-vii— 4-viii-17. 



Recorded from Bengal : Calcutta, Rajmahal. Behar : Bhogaon, 

 Purneah district, Orissa : Puri. Bombay. Madras : Gopkuda Island, 

 Chilka Lake, Ganjam district. S. India : Mysore. Ceylon : Pera- 

 deniya, Elephant Pass, Balangoda, Colombo, Yatiyantota, Kelan 

 Valley. 



[This is a very common insect on diverse plants in many parts of 

 India. On Barkuda I have only seen it on the leguminous shrub 

 Crotolaria striata, D. C, and have never succeeded in finding the young, 

 which in other parts of India are usually to be found with the adult.] 



Coccosterphus minutus (Fabr.) 



1798. Membracis minutus, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. Suppl., p. 514. 

 1803. Centrotus minutus, Fabricius, Syst. Ryhng., p. 22. 

 1846. ? Scaphula minutus, Fairmaire, Ann. Soc. Fnt. Fr. 1846, p. 495. 

 1869. Coccosterphus minutus, Stal, Hem. Fnbr. II, p. 51. 

 1885. Coccosterjihus minutus, Atkinson, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. LIV, j). 89. 

 1903. Coccosterphus minutus, Melichar, Horn. Faun. Ceylon, p. 121. 

 1908. Coccosterphus minutus. Distant, Faun. Brit. Ind. Rhyn. IV, p. 71. 

 1916. Coccosterphus minutus, Distant, Faun. Brit. Ind. Rhyn. VI (Appendix), 

 p. 175. 



Barkuda, 25-vii — 4-viii-17, also one specimen identified by Distant 

 from the Chilka Survey, 21-vii-14. 



Stal recorded it from " Tranquebar." 



Family JASSIDAE. 



[The members of this family are very scarce on this island. I have 

 observed Eutettix phycitis, Dist., feeding on Crotolaria striata, D. C, 

 but with this exception, the few specimens we obtained flew to light in 

 the evening.] 



