38 E. T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian Rhyncliota. [No. 1, 



Genus Daradax, Walker. 



J. Linn. Soc. Zool. i, p. 85 (1856) ; Stal, Hem. Afric. iv, p. 188 (1866). 

 Head lanceolate, ascending, carinate on both sides ; frons lanceolate, 

 with, a median and lateral ridges : antennae globose, very minute, seti- 

 form filament moderately long, very slender : pronotum much arched 

 with a slight median ridge, each side forming a fusiform compartment : 

 mesonotum quadricarinate : tegmina fusiform, with numerous parallel 

 equidistant veinlets along the costa ; ulnar areas long ; apical areas 

 short, like those of the costa (Walker). 



47. Daradax fusipennis. Walker. 



Daradax fusipennis, Walker, J. Linn. Soc. Zool. i, p. 86 (1856). 

 Green, partly lutescent : tegmina with brown dots along the exterior 

 margin : wings white (Walker.) Body long, 6j ; teg., 141 millims. 

 Reported from Malacca. 



Genus Tropiduchus, Stal. 



Ofvers. K. V.-A. Forh. p. 248 (1854) ; Hem. Afric. iv, p. 188 (1866) : includes 

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



Body oblong : head somewhat narrower than the thorax, slightly 

 prominulous before the eyes, obtuse : vertex arcuate, transverse, much 

 broader than the eyes, deeply sinuated at the base, rounded at the apex ; 

 frons much longer than broad, somewhat narrowed upwards, with 1 or 3 

 ridges ; clypeus with a median ridge, sides convex or obtusely ridged : 

 rostrum somewhat short : second joint of the antennse small, subglobose : 

 thorax short, angularly emarginate at the base, tricarinate on the disc : 

 scutellum tricarinate : tegmina not or but slightly narrowed towards the 

 apex ; costa remote from the margin, emitting outwards numerous trans- 

 verse veins, radial and ulnar veins forked rather distant before the middle 

 and at an equal length from the base ; apical part with two rows of tr ms- 

 verse veins : feet moderate ; first tibioa somewhat longer than the femora 

 and trochanters taken together, last tibijB trispinose (Stal). 



48. Tropiduchus luridus. Walker. 



Euria lurida, Walker, J. Linn. Soc. Zool. i, p. 88 (1856). 



Brownish, paler beneath : head green with tawny ridges : tegmina 

 and wings lurid, the former with four brown bands of which the first and 

 second arc dilated in front, the third is slender, curved, joined at each 

 end to the second, the fourth is marginal : wings with three brown bands 

 (Walker.) Body long, 5| ; teg., 14J millims. 



Reported from Singapore. 



