106 E. T. Atkinson—WNotes on Indian Rhynchota. [No. 2, 
eyes, with a biarcuated band of vermillion, margin with a slight 
groove, ocelli a little distant from the eyes ; frons with the sutures 
concave, then convex at the tip, weakly impressed in front. Clypeus 
one and half times longer than broad, spatuliform; lores much round- 
ed; gene broad, tip convex, a little sinuate in front of the sub- 
ocular piece. Prothorax two and half time broader than long, thrice 
longer than the vertex and with a vermillion band in front which starting 
from the middle of the anterior margin proceeds obliquely towards the 
middle of the lateral borders where it ends ina round spot. Scutellum 
broader than long with four round dots at the base, two lateral towards 
the transverse stria and the tip, vermillion. 'Tegmina hyaline golden-yel- 
low with the side strong and vermillion up to beyond the middle, veins 
blackish, the transverse blacker and with two lateral spots along the 
border, three at the suture and the extremity, black. Wings slightly 
infuscate with a lighter space in the supplementary cellule: body and 
feet yellow olive with deeper shades at the base of the abdominal seg- 
ments : last ventral segment in 2 scarcely longer than the preceding, 
emarginate in the middle with a median lobe, the sides very oblique, 
trilobate : valvules thick, round, pubescent at the extremity ; hairs yellow 
at the base, black at the tip: oviduct blackish just extending beyond 
the valvules (Sign.). @, body long, 8 millims. 
Reported from Burma. 
50. SELENOCEPHALUS CULTRATUS, Walker. 
Ledra culobata, Walker, List Hom. B. M. iii, p. 827 (1851). 
Ledra cultrata, Walker, 1. c. iv, p. 1159 (1851). 
Selenocephalus cultratus, Stal, Ofvers. K. V.-A. Férh. p. 494 (1862). 
Testaceous, almost fusiform; head conical, as broad as the thorax, 
shagreened, very slightly arched, very slightly concave along the hind 
border, with a very indistinct middle ridge, on each side of which there 
is a very slight furrow ; its length a little less than its breadth; sides 
shghtly angular; fore-part of the underside with slight diverging ridges 
which are at right angles to the slight oblique ridges on each side of the 
face ; a piceous spot in front of each eye: ocelli near the hind border : 
thorax very slightly convex, hardly striated transversely, indistinctly im- 
pressed on each side ; scutellum with a slight arched transverse suture 
near the tip: abdomen as broad as the thorax with seven slight black 
stripes : legs marked with black : tegmina pale testaceous, not punctur- 
ed: wings colourless (Walker). Body long 10; teg. 145 millims. 
Reported from India. 
Genus PETALOCEPHALA, Stal. 
Stal, Ofvers. K. V.-A. Forh. p. 266 (1856) ; Hem. Afric. iv, p. 103 (1866). 
