14 KE. T. Atkinson—WNotes on Indian Rhynchota. No ae 
Black : head shining: frons with a semicircular luteous band which 
is prolonged in a conical form to the face which on each side is yellow : 
rostrum yellow, tip pitchy: prothorax with a luteous band along the 
fore border extending on each side to the base of the tegmina, scutellum 
lurid on each side ; pectus with large yellow marks on each side: abdo- 
men purplish black with yellow bands at the tip, ventral surface yellow 
with three rows of transverse black spots, the side rows on the edge: legs 
tawny, femora and fore tibiee brown, femora yellow beneath: tegmina 
dark brown with two narrow pale red bands, one at one-third, the other 
at two-thirds of the length, a yellow stripe extending along the fore- 
border from the base to the first band where it acquires a tawny hue, a 
pale red stripe extending along the hind-border from the base nearly to 
the first band: wings pale brown, almost colourless in part of the disc, 
luteous at the base, veins black (Walker). Body long 12: wings long 
15 millims. A variety has two subapical spots on the tegmina red. 
Reported from Malabar, Singapore. 
26. PHYMATOSTETHA HILARIS, Walker. 
Cercopis hilaris, Walker, List Hom. B. M. iii. p. 665, (1851). 
Phymatostetha costalis, Stal, Ofvers. Kong. Vet. Aka. Férh. p. 721, (1870). 
Phymatostetha hilaris, Butler, Cist. Ent. i. p. 268, (1874). 
Black : head shining ; frons with a semicircular luteous band which 
is prolonged in a very broad conical form and occupies the dise of the 
face: the latter is pitchy, sides and epistoma yellow, rostrum yellow 
“with a black tip: prothorax with a luteous band along the fore-border, 
extending on each side to the base of the tegmen: pectus yellow, disc 
black : with 2—3 black spots on each side: abdomen purple, under-side 
yellow with three rows of transverse black spots, the side rows on the edge 
which is very broad: tegmina dark brown with two narrow yellow bands : 
the first at one-third of the length, interrupted on the dise and marked 
by some dots thence to the hind border ; the second, at two-thirds of the 
length, slightly waved: a yellow spot on the dise between it and the 
tip ; a yellow stripe extending along the fore border from the base to 
the first band: wings greyish, tinged with brown at the tips and along 
the hind borders, luteous at the base. Body long 10: exp. teg. 25 mil- 
lims (Walker). Stal, 1. c. makes this a synonym of C. costalis, Walker. 
Reported from Malabar. 
27. PHYMATOSTETHA STELLATA, Guérin. 
Cercopis stellata, Guérin, Icon. Réegne Anim. Texte. p. 368, (1829-44): Stal, 
Ofvers. Kong. Vet. Aka. Férh. p. 150, (1865). 
Cercopis dorsimacula, Walker, List. Hom. B. M. iii. p. 668, (1851): Je L. S. Zool. 
i. p. 95, (1856). 
