150 HK. T. Atkinson—Notes on Indian Rhynchota. [No. 2, 
paler than in ?, the former nearly colourless, dark tawny towards the 
base with four broad irregular brown bands and along the hind border 
two connected rows of brown spots: wings dull tawny with two brown 
bands, the inner one broader than the other but not extending more 
than half across the wing; flaps tawny (Walk.) Long, 21; teg., 67 
millims. Reported from China. 
13. PLATYPLEURA HYALINOLIMBATA, Signoret. 
Platypleura hyalinolimbata, Sign., Bull. 8. E. F. (6 sér.), i, p. xlii (1881). 
Close to P. repanda, Linn., from which it differs in having the wings 
entirely of a velvety blackish brown, bordered by a broad hyaline limbus, 
veins of a distinct yellow: tegmina with the flattened marginal space 
between the side and the veins broader than in P. repanda ; the expansion 
of the pronotum is concave and sinuated below, whilst in P. vepanda it is 
convex (Sign.). 
Reported from China. 
14. PLATYPLEURA REPANDA, Linneeus. 
Cicada repanda, Linn., Syst. Nat. i (2) p. 707 (1766): Mus. Lud. Ulr. p. 159 
(1764): Gmelin ed. Syst. Nat. i (8) p. 2097 (1782) : De Géer, Mém. iii, p. 209, t. 33, f. 
1 (1773): Olivier, Enc. Méth., V, p. 754 (1790): Germar, Thon’s Arch. ii, fasc. 2, p. 
220 (1830); Silb., Rev. Ent. ii, p. 78 (1834) : Guérin in Tigny Hist. Ins. vi, p. 189 
(1830). 
Tettigonia repanda, Fabricius, Spec. Ins. ii, p. 321 (1781); Mant. Ins. ii, p. 267 
(1787) ; Ent. Syst. iv, p. 23 (1798); Syst. Rhyng. p. 41 (1803). 
Fidicina ? repanda, Walker, List Hom. B. M. ii, p. 90 (1851). 
Platypleura ? repanda, Walker, 1. c. Suppt. p. 13 (1858). 
Tawny or yellowish brown; a black line and several small black 
patches on the thorax: opercula very large: abdomen black above : 
tegmina and wings tawny, transparent along the posterior margin near 
which is a series of transparent oval patches; tegmina have a like patch 
on the exterior border and a waved transverse line, brown in the middle. 
Body long, 27 yillims. 
Reported from India. 
Genus Tacua, Amyot & Serville. 
J, A. S. B. liti, (2), p. 217. 
Head broad, as broad as the thorax, triangular, with a longitudinal 
groove in the middle of the frons: eyes stout, prominulous: entire 
lateral margins of thorax somewhat flattened out, anterior angles 
rounded, tegmina and wings entirely opaque: abdomen stout, tumid ; 
opercula in & very large, reaching at least the middle of the abdomen 
(A. & 8.). 
