244 fulgoeidjE. 



(Bingham). Bharao {Feci). Teuasserim ; Myitta {DoJiertij). — 

 S.E. Borneo (Dohertif). 



Has been reported (' Indian Mus, Notes,' v, p. 43, 1900) as 

 destructive to sugar-cane in tlie^North Arcot district, fSouth India. 

 " These insects are seen to perch on the under side of the cane 

 leaf, avoiding sun, and on shaded leaves. They are good 

 springers. The bug is soft-bodied, and is very easily killed by 

 slight handling. These are known to the ryots only since ten 

 years. The cane crop when infested gets stunted and damaged. 

 These appear when cane is six to nine months old. No remedy 

 is known to the ryots. They collectively go by the name of 

 Cheeda pnrugii. In Coimbatore the bug is kno^vn as Tliatlioo- 

 poocJii and the winged insect as Thaloocu2}Oochi." 



Melichar, in his description of B. percarincUa, describes the 

 posterior tibiae as " mit 5 kleinen Zahnchen," but in Kirby's type 

 of the species, and in all the specimens from Ceylon w-hich I have 

 examined, the spines are only four in number. 



I cannot escape from the conclusion that the species described 

 by Eabricius as graminea is only a pale virescent form of this 

 species, in which the stigma of the tegmina is only obsoletely 

 infuscate. There is a specimen from Calcutta in the British 

 Museum which exactly corresponds with the description. 



1777. Dictyophara sauropsis, Walk, (Dictyophora) Joum. Ent. i, 



p. 30(3 (18112) ; Atkins. (Dictyophara) J. A. S. Bemj. Iv, p. 30 

 (1886). 



Allied to B. ixdlida, Don., in colour and markings, but with 

 the cephalic process shorter, sternum and abdomen beneath more 

 or less piceous ; femora more or less annulated with piceous near 

 apices ; posterior tibiae with four spines ; tegmina with the 

 venation and stigma fuscous. 



Length ceph. process, angle from apex to eyes 2 ; eyes to apex 

 abdom. 7 ; exp. regm. 20 millim. 



Hah. Bengal; Dacca.— S.E. Borneo {Brit. Mus.). 



1778. Dictyophara walkeri, Atkins. J. A. S. Bemj. Iv, p. 29 (1886). 

 Dictyophora pallida, Walk, {nee Don.) List Horn, ii, p. 320 



(1851). 



Body and legs pale ochraceous, apical half of abdomen above 

 virescent ; ridges and a central carina to cephalic process beneath, 

 and three central carinse to pro- and mesonata, green ; eyes and 

 apex to cephalic process piceous ; tegmina and wings pale creamy 

 hyaline, the venation on apical areas of both, and the stigma of 

 tegmina, very pale fuscous ; cephalic process robust, upper and 

 under surface and lateral areas broadly sulcate ; rostrum reaching 

 the posterior coxte ; posterior tibi.'e with four spines. 



Length ceph. jn-ocess, angle from apex to eyes 2 ; eyes to apex 

 abdom. 5| ; exp. tegm. 15 millim. 



Hah. "'N. India " {Brit. Mus.). 



