1886. ] K. T. Atkinson—Notes on Indian Rhynchota. 167 
45. CosMOPSALTRIA OBTECTA, Fabricius. 
J. A. S. B. liii, (2), p. 226, no. 54. 
Head virescent witha black vertical cross and on this the usual 
ocelli: the thorax green, the anterior lobe with small impressed lines, 
the posterior lobe with five more distinct abbreviated lines: abdomen 
virescent, furnished beneath with opercula which are arched, elongated, 
cinereous and armed at the base with a robust, acute spine: feet 
virescent with black lines (Fabr.). 
$ Weak olivaceous-virescent: an interior marginal spot beneath 
the middle of the lores; the extreme interior margin of the gens 
at the frons; four transverse, lateral, subbasal lines on the frons 
terminated inwards by a longitudinal line and united, interior apical 
angle and median subapical spot on the juga; a narrow median band 
slightly verging forwards on both sides and spots on the vertex including 
the ocelli, two narrow median streaks very slightly diverging before the 
middle posteriorly slightly arcuated not extended behind the posterior 
transverse impression, a small median, lateral discoidal streak on both 
sides, a small oblong obliquely longitudinal spot behind the lateral ob- 
lique median impression, also a streak near the lateral margins of the 
thorax, three median longitudinal lines (the middle one near the apex of 
the scutellum the lateral ones abbreviated in the middle of the scutellum), 
all reaching the base, the lateral ones slightly converging backwards, four 
small basal spots situate towards the sides, an obliquely longitudinal line 
abbreviated on both sides, situate behind the exterior basal spot and two 
small spots placed behind the middle of the scutellum, an irregular spot 
on the first dorsal segment of the abdomen, two lines (one interior, the 
other exterior) also two spines on the first pair of femora, an abbreviated 
upper anterior line on the posterior femora and an indistinct band near 
the apex of the posterior tibie, blackish. A median band and lateral 
spot (sometimes very obsolete) on the dorsal segments of the abdomen, 
fuscous-testaceous: tegmina and wings somewhat sordidly vitreous : 
veins fuscous, olivaceous-virescent towards the base; the apex of the 
exterior ulnar vein flavescent at the costa; the two exterior anastomoses 
with a fuscous limbus. 
& Apical angles of the last dorsal anal segment produced in a long 
lobe, gradually acuminated, the lobes below and towards the apex fus- 
cous, inferior anal segment obtuscly emarginate at the apex: opercula 
about one-third shorter than the abdomen, beyond the middle towards 
the apex gradually, thence more abruptly narrowed, inwardly behind the 
middle rounded, outwardly straight, rounded at the apex, olivaceous- 
flavescent : second ventral segment armed at the apex in the middle of 
the sides with a much elevated tubercle. Head equal in breadth to the 
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