20 f. T. Atkinson—wNotes on Indian Rhynchota. [No. 1, 
43. APHROPHORA SIGILLIFERA, Walker. 
Aphrophora sigillifera, Walker, List Hom. B. M. iii. p. 700, (1851), 
Testaceous shining : head and thorax flat, with a slight yellow keel 
rudely punctured, thinly covered with tawny down: head above short 
mostly pitchy, slightly concave on the posterior margin, rather more 
convex in front; its length less than one-fourth of its breadth ; face 
ferruginous, partly pitchy, slightly convex, with a very narrow yellow 
stripe which is most distinct towards the epistoma and is there traversed 
by two slightly curved yellow bands, one large, the other shorter and 
narrower ; on each side, are about ten oblique, slightly curved transverse 
ridges: rostrum ferruginous with a pitchy tip: pectus witha short, 
broad, black band between the fore and middle legs: abdomen Iuteous, 
reddish on each side and beneath: legs ferruginous, spotted with yellow, 
hind femora yellow: tegmina lurid, thickly punctured, narrow and 
conical towards the tips which are almost acuminate, brownish along part 
of the fore-border, on each side of a large subquadrate whitish spot 
which is in the middle : wings almost colourless, veins black, tawny at 
the base (Walker). Body long 7: wings long 15 millims. 
Reported from N. India. 
Genus Cnrovia, Stal. 
Hem. Afric. iv. p. 68, 75 (1866) : Ofvers. Kong. Vet. Aka. Férh. p. 723, (1870). 
Head as broad as the thorax, rounded or roundly subangulated, 
varying in length, above flat, anterior margin of the lobes of the vertex 
acute, not furrowed; frons somewhat convex, clypeus moderately pro- 
duced at the apex, not extending beyond the apex of the anterior coxe: 
position of ocelli variable : thorax sexangular with the anterior lateral 
margins usually very short, parallel or very slightly diverging backwards, 
scutellum longer than broad: tegmina with the commissural margin 
beyond the apex of the clavus subangulated or a little rounded: posterior 
tibia bispinose (Stal). 
44, CLOVIA GUTTIFER, Walker. 
Ptyelus guttifer, Walker, List Hom. B. M. iii. p. 712, (1851). 
Clovia guttifer, Stal, Hem. Afric. iv. p. 75, (1866). 
Lurid: head and thorax flat, finely punctured, thickly tawny pubes- 
cent ; head with a short yellow band and two black dots on fore-border ; 
face yellow, with a flat, middle stripe, on each side of which are nine 
oblique very shallow ridges, spaces between them tawny ; rostrum tawny 
witha black tip ; abdomen luteous, pectus and legs yellow: tips of the 
spines and feet pitchy: tegmina ferruginous, thickly covered with tawny 
