1886.] E. T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian Rhynchota. 37 



Body depressed : head much narrower than the thorax, produced 

 before the eyes ; vertex posteriorly about twice as broad as the eyes, 

 somewhat concave, not ridged ; frons much longer than broad, distinctly 

 narrowed upwards, more or less distinctly ridged in the middle ; sides 

 of clypeus ridged : eyes rounded, obsoletely sinuated beneath : second 

 joint of the antennae somewhat globose : thorax tricarinate, lateral ridges 

 not reaching the base : scutellum tricarinate : tegmina rounded at the 

 apex ; the radial and exterior ulnar veins united at the base ; radial and 

 exterior ulnar vein forked rather far from the base : feet moderate, first 

 tibioD subequal in length to the femora and trochanters taken together ; 

 last tibiae unispinose (Stdl), 



46. Helicopteea ? smaeagdilinea, Walker. 

 EUdipfera smaragdilinea, Walker, J. Linn. Soo. Zool. i, p. 86 (1856). 



Ferruginous : head about the eyes and on each side of the frons, a 

 spot in the middle of the pronotum and one on each side and a stripe 

 on the mesonotum, emerald-green : cephalic protuberance, slender, cylin- 

 drical ascending, black above, green beneath, about twice the length of the 

 head above ; frons long and narrow ; face and pectus black and white : ab- 

 domen with a green stripe on each side and a black stripe on each side 

 beneath : legs tawny, femora black at the base ; tibiae and tarsi partly 

 green ; fore tibiae white towards the tips : tegmina and wings limpid, the 

 former with a narrow brown streak along the terminal part of the costa, 

 and with a broad brown streak along the corresponding part of the hind 

 border, the two streaks connected by a brown streak along the transverse 

 veinlets (Walher). Body long, 9i : teg., 23 millims. 



Reported from Mount Ophir, Singapore. 



Subfam. Tropiduchtna, Stal. 



Tropiduchida, Stal, Hem. Afric. iv, p. 130, 18d (1866) : Tropiduchina, Of vers, 

 K. V.-A. Forh., p. 748 (1870). 



Head narrower than the thorax ; sides of clypeus without a rido-e or 

 with an obtuse ridge : thorax very often angularly emarginate at the 

 base, very rarely roundly sinuate, tricarinate ; lateral ridges diverging, 

 very often reaching the base ; commisural margin of tegmina straight or 

 rounded behind the clavus which is generally as in Achilina ; costa some- 

 times dilated, costal membrane transversely veined ; first joint of last 

 tarsi elongate (Stdl). 



