1886. ] KR. T. Atkinson—Notes on Indian Rhynchota. 183 
plified backwards from the apex; the lateral margins dilated, straight, 
or slightly sinuated; anterior angles distinct ; posterior limbus broad : 
scutellum posteriorly depressed, slightly sinuate at the apex: tegmina 
with eight apical areas, basal cell sending out two veins which are rather 
broadly distant : wings with six apical areas; abdomen obconical, tym- 
pana entirely hidden above by the very large lobe of the dorsal segment 
which is produced forwards : opercula large, flattish, contiguous inwards 
or slightly valvate: metasternum furnished with a stout process which 
is curvedly produced from the base backwards : first pair of femora beneath 
with two large spines and near the apex with an obsolete, obtuse, small 
tooth ( Stal.) 
68. CRYPTOTYMPANA RECTA, Walker. 
J. A. S. B. liii, (2), p. 280, no. 77. 
?. Body black, short, broad, tawny pubescent in parts: rostrum 
black, tawny at the base, reaching the last coxa : antenna black : posterior 
lobe of the pronotum with two large tawny spots; the mesonotum 
with two small tawny spots near the middle of its posterior mar- 
gin: opercula tawny, very small, wide apart: legs dark tawny ; fe- 
mora, especially the first and intermediate pairs, striped black; tips of 
the tibia, feet, and fore-tibiew, black ; first femora with three black teeth 
of which two are long and one is very small: tegmina colourless, green 
along the costal margin for half its length, dark brown thence to the 
tips, black towards the base, to this colour succeeds a small space having 
an opaline lustre; veins tawny, black towards the tips; the first and 
second transverse veins and the adjoining longitudinal veins are clouded 
dark brown ; flaps black towards the base. 
69. CRYPTOTYMPANA VICINA, Signoret. 
J.A. 8S. B. liii (2), p. 230, no. 78: includes Fidicina bicolor, Walker, List Hom. B. 
M. iv, p. 1121 (1858), from Java. 
Much smaller than 0. acuta, Signoret, from which it differs only in 
the absence of patches on the pronotum and in the complete transpa- 
rency of the wings in the external portion: the opercula are proportion- 
ately less elongate, but of the same form (<). 
70. CRyYPrOTYMPANA IMMACULATA, Olivier. 
J. A. &. B. liii, (2), p. 231, no. 79. 
Black: wings, hyaline, spotless : abdomen black : opercula reddish : 
two spines on the first pair of femora, acute, larger than usual (Olivier). 
Head and thorax blackish brown, abdomen black ; three red ocelli on 
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