64 E. T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian Rhynchota. [No. 1, 



Genus Cerynia, Stal. 



Rio Jan. Hem. li, p. 68 (1862) ; Hem. Afric, p. 235 (1866). 



First joint of antenni3e oblong or elongate, hardly shorter than the 

 second ; genae anteriorly rounded ; frons longitudinally convex : thorax 

 produced in the middle and covering the short vertex ; tegmina very 

 greatly decumbent, very ample ; posterior tibiaa very often bi-spinose : 

 costal membrane narrowed at the base (Stdl). 



95. Cerynia maria, White. 



PcBciloptera maria, White, A. M. N. H. xviii, p. 25, 1. 1, f. 3 (1846). 

 Flata maria, "Walker, List Horn. B. M. ii, p. 436 (1851). 



Cerynia maria, Stal, Ofvers. K. V.-A. Forh. p. 490 (1862) ; Distant, J. A. 8. 

 Ben. xlviii (2), p. 38 (1879) j A. M. N. H. (5 ser.) xi, p. 172 (1883). 



Of a very delicate white colour with a reddish wax-like spot not 

 far from the base of the tegmina, an interrupted somewhat curved 

 narrow black line running across the wing not reaching the fore- margin : 

 behind it, and not far from the end of the inner margin there is a short 

 narrow black line : the tegmina more or less powdered with a waxy 

 secretion ; the wings white, somewhat hyaline : head, thorax, body and 

 femora very pale yellow ; antennee and tibiae blackish : a large tuft of 

 white, waxy, spongeous matter at the end of the body. In some speci- 

 mens the red mark on the tegmina is nearly obsolete and the transverse 

 black line is quite obsolete anteriorly {White). Exp. teg., 33 — 34 millims. 



Var. a. Flata tenella^ Walker, I. c. supra, p. 437 (1851), has the 

 tegmina of a very delicate pale-green, abdomen in ^f concolorous and 

 in g pale yellow. 



Var. b. Cerynia rosea ^ mihi, has the tegmina of a delicate pale 

 rose colour and comes from Sikkim. 



Reported from India, Assam, Tenasserim. The Indian Museum 

 possesses specimens from Sikkim, Assam, Tenasserim. 



Genus Phkomnia, Stal. 



Eio Jan. Hem. ii, p. 68 (1862) ; Hem. Afrio. iv, pp. 235, 239 (1866) : Flata, pt., 

 Am. & Serv., Hist. Nat. Ins. Hem. p. 521 (1843). 



Body oblong, compressed : head much narrower than the thorax ; 

 vertex short, thorax concealed ; frons longitudinally convex, seen from 

 the side roundly-prominulous ; genaa anteriorly rounded ; clypeus long : 

 no ocelli : antennae elongate, rounded, second joint twice or half longer 

 than first : disc of thorax elevated behind the vertex, the elevated part 

 Bomewhat eloped forwards, produced, covering the vertex : scutellum 



