148 E. T. Atkinson—wNotes on Indian Rhynchota. [ No. 2, 
with tawny spines; first femora with two small teeth beneath: tegmi- 
na colourless, white at the base above, brown at the base beneath; from - 
this brown hue a short tawny stripe proceeds along the hind border and 
communicates with an oblique brown band which crosses the tegmen 
near its base: wings colourless, dark brown with a whitish outline for 
near half the surface from the base which is tawny ; flaps dark brown ; 
veins tawny ; piceous at the tips of the tegmina. 
8. PLATYPLEURA OCTOGUTTATA, Fabricius. 
Z. AIS. Bo lia, (2) py Slower 19. 
Head pallid with two dull-black parallel bands, three ocelli in 
the middle of the upper dilated band, two dots and a pale spot in the 
middle of the lower: thorax anteriorly rufous, a broad pallid band in the 
middle, posteriorly dull black with a great trifurcate spot, testaceous : 
abdomen black : tegmina at the base black ; at the middle with four, large 
white spots 3-1; at the apex, hyaline: wings short, black, posterior 
margin, white (Iabr.). 
3, ¢&. Testaceous-flavescent, whitish sericeous: disc of thorax, 
testaceous: two bands on the head and spots on the scutellum, black: 
anterior band on the head in front spotted yellow: tegmina vitreous, 
scarcely basal half fuscous; spot near the apex of the radial area and 
anterior band, whitish, opaque; anastomoses margined fuscous ; small 
spots (sometimes wanting) arranged in two subapical rows, fuscous: 
wings black-fuscous, veins sanguineous towards the base ; broad vein- 
less limbus colourless, vitreous; head very broad (Stal). 
9, PLATYPLEURA SUBRUFA, Walker. 
J. A. S. B. liii, (2), p. 216, no. 14. 
@. Body tawny: two stripes on the head of which the fore one 
forms a circlet on the face, a row of bands on each side of the face, tip 
of rostrum, the antenne, two marks on each side of the scutellum, black : 
rostrum tawny reaching the hind coxe: posterior lobe of the pronotum 
pale tawny, piceous ; mesonotum with four black marks, side pair large 
and obconical, inner pair smaller and nearly round, a black dot behind 
each of the latter: posterior margins of the abdominal segments and 
the tip mostly black: legs tawny, claws paler with black tips ; 
tegmina colourless with a broad white band one-third of the length from 
the base; the colourless part includes a brown band, its cross-veins 
are clouded with brown and there are two imperfect rows of brown 
dots on the tips of the longitudinal veins of the marginal areolets : 
