26 E. T. Atkinson — Notes ou Indian Rliyncliota. [No. 1, 



Genus Dictyophara, Germar. 



Dictyophora, Germar, Silb. Eev. Ent. i, p. 165 (1833) : Walker, List Horn. B, M. 

 ii, p. 307 (1851). 



Dyctiophora Spinola, A. S. E. F. (1 ser.) viii, p. 290 (1839) : Pseudophana, 

 Burm,, Handb. Ent. ii (i) p. 159 (1835) ; Am. & Serv., Hist. Nat. Ins. Hem. p. 506 

 (1843) : Chanithus, Amyot, A. S. E. F. (2 ser.) v, p. 160 (1847) ; Kolenati, Mel. 

 Ent. vii, p. 29 (1857) : Nersia, Stal, Rio Jan. Hem. ii, p. 62 (1861) : Dictyophara, 

 Stal, Hem. Afric. iv, p. 154 (1866) : Fieber, Rev. Mag. Zool. (3 ser.) iii, p. 357 

 (1875). 



Body oblong or oval, a little depressed : head not or only very sliglitly 

 callous behind the eyes, varying very much in form, abruptly truncated 

 before the eyes or more or less to a distance protuberant, the protuber- 

 ance straight or recurved : vertex and frons very often carinated : cly- 

 peus long, carinated in the middle : second joint of antennaB small, sub- 

 globose : rostrum long : thorax very often broadly emarginated at the 

 base, slightly sinuated anteriorly behind the eyes, touching the entire 

 posterior margin of the head, furnished with 1 — 3 ridges : scutellum very 

 often tricarinated. Tegmina very often extending beyond the apex of 

 the abdomen, third part or barely apical half furnished with trans- 

 verse veins ; clavus without a transverse vein : feet moderate or longish, 

 slender, simple ; first pair of femora unarmed, shorter than the tibiae, 

 last pair of tibiee 4 — 6-spinose : exterior radial and ulnar veins conti- 

 guous at the base (Stal). 



25. Dictyophara li^^eata, Donovan. 



Fulgora lineata, Donovan, Ins. India, t. 8, f. 1 (1800) ; Westwood, Trans. Linn. 

 Soo. xviii, p. 147 (1841). 



Falgora pallida, G-. Gray, Griffith, An. King., Ins. ii, p. 260, t. 90, f. 2 (1832). 

 Dictyophora lineata, Walker, Cat. Hom. B. M, ii, p. 310 (1851). 



Cephalic process linear, ascending ; tegmina pale with two brown 

 lines (Donovan) . Pale testaceous or fulvous-whitish : cephalic process as 

 long as h?Jf the body, ascending, pale greyish-luteous, slender, a little 

 thickened at the apex : tegmina narrow, elongate, whitish, with black- 

 ish dots arranged in lines towards the internal and external margin of 

 the posterior part of the tegmina, also a narrow black line towards 

 the base of the costa : cephalic process and feet, punctured black : last 

 femora at the apex and the tarsi broad (Westw.) Body long with 

 cephalic process (wings closed), 12|^ millims. 



Reported from Bengal. In Donovan's figure, the black spots on the 

 tegmina appear to be confluent forming two lines and extending through- 

 out the entire length of the tegmina : the Indian Museum possesses a 

 specimen from Sibsagar (Assam). 



