new Rliynchota from Bengal. 41 



(not reaching basal margin and sometimes fused in pairs) to 

 posterior lobe greyish fuscous ; eyes, ocelli, anterior collar to 

 pronotum, and a small spot near each posterior pronotal angle 

 piceous ; scutellum greyish fuscous, with the apex pale ; 

 body beneath and legs greyish ochraceous ; longitudinal 

 streaks and apices to femora and transverse segmental shadings 

 to abdomen beneath piceous ; corium greyish fuscous, costal 

 and inner claval margins, two spots on clavus (one near base, 

 the other near apex), two spots near middle of corium, and a 

 cluster of spots at its apex very pale ochraceous ; membrane 

 pale greyish ochraceous, the veins fuscous ; antennse pale 

 fuscous, basal joint and apex of apical joint very pale ochra- 

 ceous, second joint ochraceous, with its apex darker ; head 

 transversely concave between the eyes ; pronotum strongly 

 transversely impressed behind the dark anterior collar, the 

 anterior lobe with the anterior and lateral margins and a 

 central longitudinal line greyish ochraceous, its surface with 

 some large and coarse punctures, posterior lobe subgranulose, 

 giving tlie appearance of dense paler spots, the lateral margins 

 longly pilose ; scutellum foveately depressed on basal area, 

 its apical area ridged; legs finely pilose, the femora more 

 strongly so ; ocelli two. 



Length 5\ mm. 



Hab, Bengal; Tasa (^Maxwell-Lefroy). 



H M P T E E A. 

 Fam. Fulgoridae. 



Subfam. Issiy^. 



Hilda hengalensis, sp. n. 



Vertex, pronotum, and scutellum pale green, extreme apical 

 margin of vertex almost continuously black ; pronotum with 

 the margins testaceous ; basal area of face between the eyes 

 black, with four prominent small white spots, in some speci- 

 mens the spots near the eyes are obsolete and only the two 

 central spots are visible, this black area margined posteriorly 

 with greyish white ; clypeus, body beneath, and legs ochra- 

 ceous; tegmina pale testaceous, basal half of clavus casta- 

 neous, with an apical white margin and this dark area out- 

 wardly continued on corium, with a large whitish spot varying 

 in size and shape, corium also crossed beyond middle by a 

 whitish transverse fascia narrowly margined with black and 

 broadly angulated on each side at costal margin, apical area 

 a little paler in hue and inwardly defined and margined by a 



