68 EK. T. Atkinson—WNotes on Indian Rhynchota. [No. I, 
Body oblong, compressed: head narrower than the thorax, varying 
jn shape; vertex short, concealed; frons sometimes tumid or conically 
produced at the base: ocelli distinct: antenne very short: thorax 
anteriorly somewhat produced, covering the vertex: scutellum more or 
less distinctly tricarinate : tegmina very ample, very greatly decumbent 
gradually amplified towards the apex, truncated at the apex, moderately 
densely veined, most, often all, the transverse veinlets irregularly scat- 
tered, veinlets rarely arranged in one or two irregular rows towards the 
apex, costal area irregularly reticulated: feet simple, last tibize bispinose 
(Stal). Type, Flata ocellata, Fabr. 
103. Fruata oceLuata, Fabricius. 
Cicada ocellata, Fabr., Syst. Ent. p. 682 (1775); Spec. Ins. ii, p. 322 (1781) ; 
Mant. Ins. ii, p. 268 (1787); Ent. Syst. iv, p. 27 (1794), excl. syn. de Géer. 
Flata ocellata, Fabr., Ent. Syst. Suppt., p. 517 (1798) ; Syst. Rhyng., p. 49 . 
(1803), Stal, Ofvers. K. V.-A. Férh. p. 489 (1862); Hem. Fabr. ii, p. 107 (1869). 
Ricania ocellata, Germar, Mag. Ent. iii, p. 224 (1818). 
Peciloptera ocellata, Burm., Handb. Ent. ii (i), p. 162 (1835); Spin., A. S. H. FP. 
viii, p. 441 (1839); Walker, List Hom. B. M. ii, pp. 444, 454 (1851). 
Peciloptera stellaris, Walker, List 1. c. ii, p. 453 (1851). 
Peciloptera argiolus, Stal, Ofvers. K. V.-A. Férh. p. 191 (1855). 
Green: tegmina much compressed, posteriorly acutely angulated, 
green, sprinkled with numerous ocellar ferruginous dots: feet pallid 
(Fabr.). In faded specimens the colour is a dirty white or yellow and 
the ferruginous spots become an obscure brown. 
Stal’s P. argiolus is thus described :—‘ Weakly whitish-virescent ; 
frons, thorax, and scutellum tricarinate, the last, however, less so: teg- 
mina sparingly sprinkled with small duil black-sanguineous spots, ob- 
soletely circled whitish; clavus granulate.’ Body long, 6; exp. teg., 
20 millims. 
Reported from Tranquebar. 
104. Fata rerRuGcatTa, Fabricius. 
Flata ferrugata, Fabr., Syst. Rhyng. p. 50 (1803); Germar in Thon’s Archiv. 
ii, fasc. 2, p. 49 (1830) ; Stal, Hem. Fabr. ii, p. 108 (1869). 
g. Very palely subtestaceous-flavescent, here and there covered 
with a whitish powdery substance; wings whitish: apical margins of 
the two last segments of the abdomen in ¢ at least, black towards the 
sides. Very close to I’. ocellata, Fabr., hardly differs except in colora- 
tion unless in haying the apical, commissural angle of the tegmina a 
little less produced, somewhat straight, not distinctly acute and thorax 
with a single less distinct median ridge. Head truncate, vertex very 
obtusely angulated anteriorly, concealed by the thorax; frons a little 
