SS ae a a 
1885. ] K. T. Atkinson—Notes on Indian Rhynchota. 153 
of the shield : rostrum ferruginous, tip darker, extending nearly to the 
tip of the abdomen : an excavation partly inclosing the eye on each side 
lateral margins of pronotum and most of metanotum, black: abdomen 
a little longer than the thorax, nearly elliptical, red, with a black band 
across each segment above: legs black, furrowed, femora red, posterior 
tibize spinose: tegmina not much longer than the wings, apex obtuse, 
pale dingy yellow with very numerous brown marks, reticulated part, 
yellowish-brown : wings brown with many almost colourless spots which 
are partly confluent, posterior margin almost colourless, tip pale brown 
(Walker). Body long 145; exp. teg. 42 millims. 
Reported from India. 
Genus Puoronts, Stal. 
Stettin Ent. Zeit. xxiv, p. 233 (1868). 
Head not protuberant but emitting from the base of the frons a 
very long, very slender, mobile, reflexed process [which in dried speci- 
“mens is very easily detached]; frons a little narrower above the middle 
than beneath the middle, abruptly narrowed at the base, furnished with 
two obtuse, parallel ridges (often obliterated), lateral margins slightly 
sinuate beneath the middle; vertex truncated at the base: thorax hard- 
ly carinate in the middle, first pair of femora distinctly amplified above 
at the apex; last pair of tibia 4-spinose, furnished above at the base 
with a tubercle (Stal). 
45. PHORONIS NIGRO-MACULATA, Guérin. 
Aphena nigro-maculata, Guérin, Icon. Régne An. t. 90, f. 6 (1830-34) ; Voy. 
Bélanger Ind. Orient. Zool. p. 457 (1834); Spinola, A. S. H. F. (1 sér.) viii, p. 243 
(1839); Walker, List. Hom. B. M. ii, p. 273 (1851). 
Fulgora (Aphena) nigro-maculata, G. R. Gray, Griffith’s ed. An. King. Ins. ii, 
p. 260 t. 90, £.6; t. 188, f.1 a-c. (1832). 
Aphana nigro-maculata, Westwood, Trans. Linn. Soe. xviii, p. 149 (1841). 
Phoronis nigro-maculata, Stal, Stettin Ent. Zeit. xxiv, p. 233 (1863). 
Head and thorax brown; horn black, short, flexible ; tegmina brown 
with some small scattered black spots, exterior margin with a broad 
black border: wings with basal half silvery grey, spotted with black; 
other half, black, with the interior margin brownish black ; body silvery 
grey, with transverse narrow bands of black (Gray). Head subferru- 
ginous, brown; frons with a cylindrical horn recurved backwards ; tho- 
rax somewhat greenish brown: tegmina obscurely blue, apex finely 
reticulated with black, punctured with black on the anterior margin 
with five dots obliquely arranged at the base: wings blue, spotted with 
black, posteriorly brown, black at the apex: abdomen black, streaked 
