6 E. T. Atkinson—Notes on Indian Rhynchota. [No. 1, 
of species of the genus Phymatostetha has been increased by two, of 
which one comes from Ceylon and one from Assam; both have been 
described by Mr. Distant. The Indian Museum possesses about ten, 
apparently undescribed, species which may be referred to these genera, 
and which will form the subject of a separate paper hereafter. 
Genus Cosmoscarta, Stal. 
Hem. Fabr. ii. p. 11 (1869) : Ofvers. Kong. Vet. Aka. Férh. p. 718 (1870). 
Frons very large, very tumid, obtuse, extended on the facial side 
almost to the eyes, devoid of any longitudinal furrow or keel. 
1. Cosmoscarta rricoLor, St. Farg. and Serv. 
Cercopis tricolor, St. Fargeau and Serville, Enc. Méth. x. p. 605 (1825): Burm. 
Handb. Ent. ii. (i) p. 124 (1835): Walker, J. L. 8. Zool. i. p. 95 (1856) ; ibid., p. 165 
(1857). 
Cosmoscarta tricolor, Butler, Cist. Ent. i. p. 245 (1874): Distant, J. A. S. B. 
xlviii (2) p. 38 (1879). 
Black, shining: head, thorax, scutellum towards the tip, hind 
borders of the abdominal segments, the tip of the abdomen and the legs, 
red: femora black, the four anterior red towards the tips: six red spots 
on each tegmen at the base. A Tenasserim variety in the Indian 
Museum differs from the type in having the subbasal fascia represented 
by a transverse series of four sanguineous spots ; there is alsoa spot of 
the same colour at the base. Jt is thus intermediate between C. tricolor 
and C. basinotata, Butler (Cist. Hut. 1. p. 245), which differs also in the 
coloration of the abdomen (Distant). Body long 22: exp. teg. 51 
moillims. 
Reported from Borneo, Java, Singapore, and Tenasserim ; a speci- 
men from the last locality is in the Indian Museum. 
2. COoOSMOSCARTA BASINOTATA, Butter. 
Cosmoscarta basinotata, Butler, Cist. Ent. p. 245, t. viii, f. 2, (1874): Distant, 
J. A. S. B. xlvii (2) p. 194 (1878). 
Form of C. tricolor: differs chiefly in having the tegmina crossed at 
the base by a patch of six red spots (that on the clavus being more or 
less bifid) instead of the pale testaceous band, and in the narrower and 
interrupted red bands margining the segments on the dorsum of the 
abdomen (DBuiler). Long, 21: exp. tego. 47 millims. 
Reported from Sarawak, Tenasserim. 
