1886.] E. T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian Khyncliota. 31 



smaller and head shorter :liead test aceous-flavescent ; vertex with a long- 

 itudinal ridge between the eyes ; frons, clypens, and thorax miniaceous, 

 the two former with ridges, the last with a median ridge, an oblique line on 

 both sides and a lateral ridge and the lateral margins, grass-green : scu- 

 tellura weakly miniaceous, with three parallel ridges and a posterior spot 

 on each side, grass-green : tegmina almost twice as long as the abdomen, 

 sordid vitreous, the third apical part transversely veined ; veins and 

 stigma fuscous : pectus weakly miniaceous with a grass-green ridge on 

 both sides : abdomen and feet weak sordid virescent-flavescent, the disc 

 of the abdomen and the apices and lines on the feet, black-fuscous 

 (Stdl). Body long, 8 ; broad, 2J millims. 

 Reported from Malacca. 



Subfam. Cixiina, Stal. 



Cixiida, Stal, Hem. Afrio. lY, p. 129, 164 (1866) ! Cixiina, Ofvers. K. V.-A. Forh. 

 p. 746 (1870). 



Similar to Dictyopliarina except that there are usually three ocelli, 

 one of which is placed on the apex of the frons : this frontal ocellus is 

 very rarely wanting and if wanting the sides of the clypeus are convex 

 and ecarinate {Stal), 



Genus Cixius, Latreille, Stal. 



Gen. Ins. iii, p. 166 (1807) ; Guerin, Voy. Belanger Ind. Orient. Zool. p. 463 

 (1834) ; Burm., Handb. ii (i) p. 156 (1835) : Stal, Hem. Afric. iv, p. 164, 169 

 (1866) : Fieber, Rev. Mag. Zool. (3 ser.) iii, p. 355 (1875). 



Head somewhat narrower than the thorax, short, roundly sinuated 

 at the base ; vertex somewhat concavish ; frons and clypeus together 

 elliptical, famished with a median ridge running through them ; frons 

 with an ocellus on the apex, sides of clypeus carinated : eyes slightly or 

 only very slightly sinuated beneath : antennae inserted beneath the eyes, 

 very short, first joint concealed, second small, subglobose : thorax very 

 short, posteriorly, deeply, angularly emarginated : scutellum tricarinate 

 lateral margins of tegmina parallel, interior ulnar vein and the radial vein 

 forked at a distance from the base : feet moderate, simple, last tibiae armed 

 with 2 — 3 spines (Stdl). 



36. Cixius (?) albistriga, Walker. 



Cixitis albistriga, Walker, J. Linn. Soc. Zool. i, p. 87 (1856). 



Blackish, testaceous beneath : head much smaller and frons nar- 

 rower than in European species ; frons dark brown : posterior margins of 

 abdominal segments reddish above, whitish beneath : tegmina brown 



