64 E. T. Atkinson—Notes on Indian Rhynchota. [No. 1, 
Genus Crrynia, Stal. 
Rio Jan. Hem. fi, p. 68 (1862) ; Hem. Afric., p. 235 (1866). 
First joint of antennz oblong or elongate, hardly shorter than the 
second; gens anteriorly rounded; frons longitudinally convex: thorax 
produced in the middle and covering the short vertex; tegmina very 
greatly decumbent, very ample; posterior tibia very often bi-spinose : 
costal membrane narrowed at the base (Stal). 
95. Cprynta MARIA, White. 
Peciloptera maria, White, A. M. N. H. xviii, p. 25, t.1, £. 3 (1846). 
Flata maria, Walker, List Hom. B. M. ii, p. 4386 (1851). 
Cerynia maria, Stal, Ofvers. K. V.-A. Férh. p. 490 (1862); Distant, J. A. 8. 
Ben. xlviii (2), p. 88 (1879); A. M. N. H. (6 sér.) xi, p. 172 (1883). 
Of a very delicate white colour with a reddish wax-like spot not 
far from the base of the tegmina, an interrupted somewhat curved 
narrow black line running across the wing not reaching the fore-margin : 
behind it, and not far from the end of the inner margin there is a short 
narrow black line: the tegmina more or less powdered with a waxy 
secretion; the wings white, somewhat hyaline: head, thorax, body and 
femora very pale yellow; antenne and tibieo blackish: a large tuft of 
white, waxy, spongeous matter at the end of the body. In some speci- 
mens the red mark on the tegmina is nearly obsolete and the transverse 
black line is quite obsolete anteriorly (White). Exp. teg., 33—34 millims. 
Var. a. Flata tenella, Walker, 1. c. supra, p. 437 (1851), has the 
tegmina of a very delicate pale-green, abdomen in g concolorous and 
in g pale yellow. 
Var. b. Cerynia rosea, mihi, has the tegmina of a delicate pale 
rose colour and comes from Sikkim. 
Reported from India, Assam, Tenasserim. The Indian Museum 
possesses specimens from Sikkim, Assam, Tenasserim. 
Genus PuHromnia, Stal. 
Rio Jan. Hem. ii, p. 68 (1862) ; Hem. Afric. iv, pp. 235, 239 (1866): Flata, pt., 
Am. & Serv., Hist. Nat. Ins. Hém. p. 621 (1843). 
Body oblong, compressed: head much narrower than the thorax ; 
vertex short, thorax concealed; frons longitudinally convex, seen from 
the side roundly-prominulous ; gens anteriorly rounded; clypeus long: 
no ocelli: antenne elongate, rounded, second joint twice or half longer 
than first: disc of thorax elevated behind the vertex, the elevated part 
somewhat sloped forwards, produced, covering the vertex: scutellum 
