1885. ] KE. T. Atkinson—WNotes on Indian Rhynchota. 5 
guished from the other two species by its much larger size and deep 
black colour. It is much the rarest of the three. 1. stigmata is the 
only described species of the genus having a male sexual mark on the 
upperside of the forewing. 
II.—Notes on Indian Rhynchota, No. 2.—By E. T. Arxrnson, B. A. 
[The notes are taken so far as possible from the original descriptions 
or from Stal, Signoret, Butler, or Distant, &c. where these writers have 
redescribed a species. The measurements of specimens not in the Indian 
Museum have been converted into millimetres from the recorded measure- 
ments of the several authors. | 
[Received Feb. 17th ;—Read March 4th, 1885. ] 
HOMOPTERA. 
Family Curcopip2. 
Cercopida, Stal, Hem. Afric. iv. p. 54 (1866): Hem. Fabr. ii. p. 11 (1869). 
Fieber, Rev. Mag. Zool. (3 sér.) iii. p. 328 (1875): Cercopina Stal, Ofvers. Kong. 
Vet. Aka. Férh. p. 718 (1870). 
Frons convex or compressly produced : ocelli two on the vertex near 
the base : thorax, large, sexangular or trapezoidal: scutellum small or 
moderate, triangular; tegmina usually coriaceous: feet remote from 
the sides of the body with the coxe (especially the posterior pair) 
short: tibiz rounded, posterior furnished with one or two spines and 
with a circlet of spinules at the apex. 
Subfamily Curcorrna, Stal. 
Cercopida, Stal, Hem. Afric. iv. p. 55 (1866) : Hem. Fabr. ii. p. 11 (1869): Cer- 
copina, Stal, Ofvers, Kong. Vet. Aka. Forh. p. 718 (1870). 
Anterior margin of thorax straight, eyes equally long and broad. 
In 1874, Mr. Butler of the British Museum (Cist. Ent. i. p. 245) 
recorded the species of the genera Cosmoscarta and Phymatostetha, 
formed by Stal from the genus Cercopis of Walker (nec Fabricius). He 
enumerated 104 species of the genus Cosmoscarta and 22 species of the 
genus Phymatostetha. Since then, the number of species of the genus 
Cosmoscarta has been increased by eight of which five, described by Mr. 
Distant, come from India and the Eastern Archipelago, and three, de- 
scribed by Mr. Butler, come from Penang and Sumatra. The number 
