1886. ] HK. T. Atkinson—Notes on Indian Rhynchota, 147 
age piceous, castaneous. Underside with legs ochraceous : rostrum ex. 
sie e the second abdominal segment ; its tip, two spots on the sixth 
a Suna segment, knees, and tarsi piceous : tegmina dark brown with 
pale semi-opaque markings, especially on the apical half. Basal third 
thickly covered with pale pubescence and containing five dark-brown 
spots, of which the most prominent are two which are subcostal, situate 
beyond the middle of this space, and a third one below the basal of those 
two spots. Remainder of tegmina less pubescent with a number of whi- 
tish spots, of which the most prominent are a transverse row stretching 
across from near the costa to the inner border, immediately beyond the 
basal third pubescent space ; another more waved row beyond the mid- 
dle, confluent near the costa, where they are very visible below: a subapi- 
cal marginal row of five whitish oblong spots, arranged on the veins of 
which the apical ends are dull brown ; and an outer marginal row of six 
dark-brown spots, also arranged on the veins and of which the lowest ig 
the largest ; a dull whitish fusiform spot on the inner angle which is very 
distinct on the underside: wings castaneous with a dark brown marginal 
border and some suffused dark-brown discal streaks extending across the 
wings (Distant). 
6. PLATYPLEURA NICOBARICA, Butler. 
J. A. 8. B. liii, (2), p. 233. 
Allied to P. fulvigera, Walker, from the Philippines, but larger, with 
tegmina longer; the whole of the spots crossing the coriaceous area, 
testaceous ; those crossing its apex, smaller: the blackish transverse 
spots considerably smaller: the wings longer, the subapical, transverse, 
fasciole replaced by 3-4 decreasing longitudinal fulvous streaks : prono- 
tum considerably broader, its lateral angles more oblique and therefore 
more prominent (Butler). Body long, 21: exp. teg. 77 millims. 
7. PLATYPLEURA BASIALBA, Walker. 
J. A. S. B. liti, (2), p. 214, no. 10. 
3. Body yellow, whitish pubescent, whitish pulverulous beneath: 
band in front and behind on the frons, also a stripe of short bands on 
each side, slender bands on the gens, bands on the antenns and their 
tips, seven small marks on the pronotum, three stripes on the mesono- 
tum of which the side pair are oblique and the middle one straight, 
widened on each side by the fore border, and a small spot on each 
side near the hind border, black: eyes and antennz tawny; ocelli red : 
abdomen black; drums, tip and hind borders of the segments yellow: 
legs yellow, briefly whitish pubescent ; tips of claws black: hind tibie 
