60 CICABIDiE. 



what broken black transverse fascias, the first at anterior margin 

 of front, the second between eyes ; pronotum with the posterior 

 margin much paler, the lateral margins a little darker, two central 

 lines on disk and the incisures black ; mesonotum purplish-brown, 

 with two small central anterior obconical spots and the lateral 

 areas black ; abdomen piceous, segmental margins pale castaneous, 

 tympanal coverings and apex brownish-ochraceous ; sternum and 

 legs brownish-ochraceous ; opercula pale with their disks piceous ; 

 tegmina and wings hyaline slightly tinged with ochraceous, veins 

 brownish-ochraceous ; tegmina with costal membrane and area, 

 base including basal cell, and extreme base of wings brownish- 

 ochraceous. 



Length excl. tegm. 29 ; exp. tegm. 86 ; breadth between pronot. 

 angl. 19 millim. 



Hah. " East India " {Inglis, Brit. Mus.). 



I only know this species by the unique type in the British 

 Museum. 



P. bnfo is to be recognized by the great breadth of the 

 pronotum. 



aa. Breadth between jpronotal angles about equal to space between 

 apex of liead and base of cruciform elevation. 



dd. Rostrum onln just passing posterior coxce. 



153-3. Platypleura mackinnoni, Bist: Tr. H. S. 1904, p. 667, pi. xxix, 

 f. 1 a, h. 



Head and pronotum ochraceous ; head with the lateral margins 

 of front, face (excluding basal spot), anterior lateral margins of 

 vertex, and a broad transverse fascia bet\^een eyes (including the 

 area of the ocelli) black ; pronotum with the basal margin strami- 

 neous, its disk, with a central longitudinal fascia (much broadened 

 at base), and the incisures, black ; mesonotum pale castaneous, with 

 two anterior, fused, obconical spots, on each side of which is a 

 longer obconical spot, and a large cuiwed basal spot with its apex 

 prolonged, black ; basal cruciform elevation pale castaneous with 

 its central area black ; abdomen black, apex and margins of the 

 tympana ochraceous ; legs, rostrum, posterior margins of abdominal 

 segments and apical segment (more or less) ochraceous ; tegmina 

 pale talc-like, the venation ochraceous on basal half, piceous on 

 apical area, extreme basal area piceous : wings pale hyaline, the 

 venation ochraceous, about basal tliird piceous streaked with 

 ochraceous. 



J . Opercula almost meeting interiorly, their lateral and poste- 

 rior margins obhque, their apices reaching the base of the second 

 abdominal segment. 



Length excl. tegm., S & ? , 25 ; exp. tegm. 75; breadth 

 between pronotal angles 14 millim. 



Hah. Mussooree : Dehra Dun (P. W. MacUnnon, 18/6/1903). 



