1886. ] H. T. Atkinson—Notes on Indian Rhynchota. 37 
Body depressed: head much narrower than the thorax, produced 
before the eyes; vertex posteriorly about twice as broad as the eyes, 
somewhat concave, not ridged ; frons much longer than broad, distinctly 
narrowed upwards, more or less distinctly ridged in the middle; sides 
of clypeus ridged: eyes rounded, obsoletely sinuated beneath: second 
joint of the antenne somewhat globose : thorax tricarinate, lateral ridges 
not reaching the base: scutellum tricarinate: tegmina rounded at the 
apex; the radial and exterior ulnar veins united at the base; radial and 
exterior ulnar vein forked rather far from the base: feet moderate, first 
tibis subequal in length to the femora and trochanters taken together ; 
last tibize unispinose (Stal). 
46. HbLicoPrera P SMARAGDILINEA, Walker. 
Elidiptera smaragdilinea, Walker, J. Linn. Soc. Zool. i, p. 86 (1856). 
Ferruginous : head about the eyes and on each side of the frons, a 
spot in the middle of the pronotum and one on each side and a stripe 
on the mesonotum, emerald-green: cephalic protuberance, slender, cylin- 
drical ascending, black above, green beneath, about twice the length of the 
head above ; frons long and narrow ; face and pectus black and white: ab- 
domen with a green stripe on each side and a black stripe on each side 
beneath : legs tawny, femora black at the base; tibis and tarsi partly 
green ; fore tibiz white towards the tips: tegmina and wings limpid, the 
former with a narrow brown streak along the terminal part of the costa, 
and with a broad brown streak along the corresponding part of the hind 
border, the two streaks connected by a brown streak along the transverse 
veinlets (Walker). Body long, 9}: teg., 23 millims, 
Reported from Mount Ophir, Singapore. 
Subfam. Troprpucuina, Stal. 
Tropiduchida, Stal, Hem. Afric. iv, p. 180, 186 (1866) : Tropiduchina, Ofvers. 
K, V.-A. Forh., p. 748 (1870). 
Head narrower than the thorax ; sides of clypeus without a ridge or 
with an obtuse ridge: thorax very often angularly emarginate at the 
base, very rarely roundly sinuate, tricarinate ; lateral ridges diverging, 
very often reaching the base ; commisural margin of tegmina straight or 
rounded behind the clavus which is generally as in Achilina ; costa some- 
times dilated, costal membrane transversely veined ; first joint of last 
tarsi clongate (Stal), 
