1885. ] K. T. Atkinson—WNotes on Indian Rhynchota. 9 
Black, rostrum and legs piceous; abdomen shining violaceous ; 
tegmina blackish-brown with two narrow, slightly undulating, sordid 
sanguineous bands; one, near the base; the other, at two-thirds of the 
length: wings dark brown, veins black. Body long, 16: exp. teg. 40 
millims. 
Reported from Silhat: the Indian Museum possesses a specimen 
from the Néga hills. 
11. Cosmoscarta typia, Stal. 
Cercopis lydia, Stal, Ofvers. Kong, Vet. Aka. Férh. p. 149, (1865). 
Cosmoscarta lydia, Butler, Cist, Hnt. i. p. 257, (1874). 
Brick red or saffron-yellow : head, anterior part of thorax, scutellum 
(except the frena), tegmina, anterior lateral part of prosteihium, 
metastethium, anus and tarsi, black: base of the tegmina brick-red or 
saffron-yellow: wings sordidly hyaline, apex very slightly infuscate, base 
palely saffron. Body long 8—10: exp. teg. 20—23 millims. 
Sometimes tegmina have no saffron bands and sometimes have two, 
one before and the other behind the middle. 
Reported from E. India. 
5 12. CosmoscarTA TRIGONA, Walker. 
Cercopis trigona, Walker, List Hom. B. M. iii. p. 660, (1851). 
Cercopis amplicollis, Walker, 1. c. Suppt. p. 175, (1858). 
Cosmoscarta trigona, Butler, Cist. Ent. i. p. 257, (1874). 
Thorax metallic bluish-black, shining: borders of scutellum, poste- 
rior margin of segments of abdomen, the anus, coxe and femora, and the 
tarsi at the base, red : tegmina bluish-black, tips brown, with a bifurcated 
basal streak and two bands, red; the basal streak with the median band 
contain between them an almost triangular patch, bluish black: the limb 
of the basal bifurcation on the hind border is much broader than that on 
the costal margin, neither quite reach the median band. Body long 10—12: 
exp. teg. 23—29 millims. 
Reported from N. India. 
The Indian Museum possesses specimens from the Khasiya and Naga 
hills, the Dhansiri valley, and Sibsagar. 
13. Cosmoscarta pEcIsA, Walker. 
Cercopis decisa, Walker, List Hom. B. M. Suppt. p. 175, (1858). 
Cosmoscarta decisa, Butler, Cist. Ent. i. p. 258, (1874), 
A second species described under this name by Walker (in J. L. S, 
Zool. x. p. 278, No. 296, 1867) bas been renamed C. zonata by Butler 
(in Cist. Ent. i. p. 253, 1874). Walker describes C. decisu thus: 
“ Black : head above and prothorax eneous-green, shining: prothorax 
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