1886.] E. T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian RKyncliota. 67 



side and gense produced in the middle ; tegmina very ample, gradually 

 somewhat amplified towards the apex, furnished near the apex with a 

 regular arched row of transverse veinlets which begins behind the apex 

 of the clavus, costal area transversely veined, some veins anastomosed 

 (8tdl). Type, L. deoiH/rons, Guerin. 



101. LECHiEA DENTiFRONS, Guerin. 



PcBciloptera dentifrons, Guerin, Icon. Rfegne Animal, Texte, p. 360 (1830-34). 

 Walker, List Horn. B. M. ii, p. 445 (1851). 



Lechcea dentifrons, Stal, Berlin Ent. Zeitschr. x, p. 393 (1866). 



Genus Scarpanta, Stal. 

 Hem. Afrio iv, pp. 236, 240 (1866). 



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

 vertex very short, concealed by the thorax : antennse very short, first joint 

 hardly visible : ocelli distinct : thorax compressly- elevated on the disc, 

 elevated part flat, a little sloped forwards, anteriorly truncated, pro- 

 duced, covering the vertex, on both sides acutely margined or terminated 

 by a ridge reaching the base : scutellum tricarinate : tegmina very 

 ample ; very greatly decumbent ; gradually amplified beyond the mid- 

 dle ; truncated at the apex, remotely veined j furnished throughout with 

 transverse veinlets irregularly scattered, remote ; costal area broad, re- 

 m.otely reticulate : the elevated dorsal part of the abdomen emitting a 

 slender, erect, process : feet moderate, simple : last tibias bispinose 

 iStdl). 



102. Scarpanta comma, Walker. 



Pceciloptera comma, Walker, List Hom. B. M. ii, p. 447 (1851). 

 Scarpanta comma, Stal, Of vers. K. V.-A. Forh. p. 490 (1862). 



^ . Body buff : abdomen powdered with white, valves and other 

 appendages at the tip large : legs tawny : anterior feet and tips of the 

 anterior tibiae and of the hind feet, black : tegmina buff, a very short 

 and slender, slightly oblique, black streak on the disc, an oblong black 

 dot near the hind border at one-third of the length from the base ; veina 

 buff : wings milk white. Body long, 9^ ; teg., 37^ millims. 



Reported from Silhat. 



Genus Flata, Fabricius, Stal. 



Ent. Syst. Snppt. pp. 511, 517 (1798) ; Stal, Berlin Ent. Zeitschr. yi, p. 313 

 (1862) ; Hem. Afric. iv, pp. 236, 241 (1866). 



It includes Colohesthes, Am. & Serv., Hist. Nat. Ins. Hem., p. 522 (1843) ; 

 Cromna, Walker, J. Linn. Soo. Zool. i, p. 85 (1856) ; and Phyllyphanta, Am. & Serv., 

 1. c, p. 523 (1843). 



