206 E. T. Atkinson—WNotes on Indian Rhynchota. [No. 2, 
fication without comparison with types has proved in the history of this 
order, I have translated or transcribed, with some omissions and addi- 
tions, the original descriptions, however unsatisfactory these were. 
This list of recorded species is, it is believed, tolerably complete, but we 
have not in our Indian Museum examples of evena moiety of those 
given, and I would now endeavour to enlist the efforts of observers in 
India to complete the series. The number of species here described 
under each family is as follows :— 
Cicadide, 115 
Cercopidee 67 
Membracide, 33 
Jasside, 38 
Fulgoride,  204—457 
These with the species indicated as likely to exist but not described 
bring up the number to close on 500. These figures could probably be 
doubled in a few years, for the number of Jasside alone awaiting 
examination should add several hundred species to our Indian fauna. 
