68 E. T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian Rliynchota. [No. 1, 



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

 jn shape ; vertex short, concealed ; frons sometimea tumid or conically 

 produced at the base : ocelli distinct : antennae very short : thorax 

 anteriorly somewhat produced, covering the vertex : scutellum more or 

 less distinctly tricarinate : tegmina very ample, very greatly decumbent 

 gradually amplified towards the apex, truncated at the apex, moderately 

 densely veined, most, often all, the transverse veinlets irregularly scat- 

 tered, veinlets rarely arranged in one or two irregular rows towards the 

 apex, costal area irregularly reticulated : feet simple, last tibiae bispinos© 

 (IStdl). Type, Flata ocellatay Fabr. 



103. Flata ocellata, Fabricius. 



Cicada ocellata, Fabr., Syst. Ent. p. 683 (1775) ; Spec. Ins. ii, p. 322 (1781) j 

 Mant. Ina. ii, p. 268 (1787) ; Ent, Syst. iv, p. 27 (1794), exol. syn. de Geer. 



Flata ocellata, Fabr., Ent. Syst. Suppt., p. 517 (1798) ; Syst. Rhyng., p. 49 

 (1803), Stal, Of vers. K. V.-A. Forli. p. 489 (1862) ; Hena. Fabr. ii, p. 107 (1869). 



Bicania ocellata, Germar, Mag. Ent. iii, p. 224 (1818). 



PoBcilo^tera ocellata, Burm., Handb. Ent. ii (i), p. 162 (1835) ; Spin., A. S. E. F. 

 Tiii, p. 441 (1839) ; Walker, List Horn. B. M. ii, pp. 444, 454 (1851). 



Pceciloptera stellaris, Walker, List 1. c. ii, p. 453 (1851). 



Pceciloptera argiolus, Stal, Ofvera. K. V.-A. Forh. p. 191 (1855). 



Green : tegmina much compressed, posteriorly acutely angulated, 

 green, sprinkled with numerous ocellar ferruginous dots : feet pallid 

 {Fabr.). In faded specimens the colour is a dirty white or yellow and 

 the ferruginous spots become an obscure brown. 



Stal's P. argiolus is thus described : — * Weakly whitish- virescent ; 

 frons, thorax, and scutellum tricarinate, the last, however, less so : teg- 

 mina sparingly sprinkled with small dull black-sanguineous spots, ob- 

 soletely circled whitish ; clavua granulate.' Body long, 6 ; exp. teg., 

 20 millims. 



Reported from Tranquebar. 



104. Flata ferrugata, Fabricius. 



Flata ferrugata, Fabr., Syet. Rhyng. p. 50 (1803) ; Germar in Thon's Arcliiv. 

 ii, fasc. 2, p. 49 (1830) ; Stal, Hem. Fabr. ii, p. 108 (1869). 



J. Very palely subtestaceous-flavescent, here and there covered 

 with a whitish powdery substance ; wings whitish : apical margins of 

 the two last segments of the abdomen in $ at least, black towards the 

 sides. Very close to F. ocellata, Fabr., hardly differs except in colora- 

 tion unless in having the apical, commissural angle of the tegmina a 

 little less produced, somewhat straight, not distinctly acute and thorax 

 with a single less distinct median ridge. Head truncate, vertex very 

 obtusely angulated anteriorly, concealed by the thorax ; frons a little 



