1886.] E. T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian Rhynchota. 6^ 



longer tlian it is broad beneath the middle, gradually slightly amplified 

 from the base beyond the middle, thence on both sides obtusely rounded 

 furnished mth an obtuse median ridge running through it, slightly im- 

 pressed on both sides within the lateral margins, not tumescent at the 

 base : thorax with a median ridge (Stdl). Body long, 8 ; with teg., 10^ j 

 exp. teg., 24 millims. 



Reported from Tranquebar. 



105. Flata marginella, Guerin. 



Bicania marginella, Guerin, Yoj. La Coquille Zool. ii (2), p. 193 (1830) ; Icon. 

 Eegne Animal Ins., t. 58, f. 6 (1830-34) ; Voy. Belanger Ind. Orient, p. 467 (1834.) 

 Pceciloptera marginella, Spin., A. S. E. F. (1 ser.) viii, p. 433 (1839) ; Walker, List 

 Horn. B. M. ii, p. 443 (1851). 



Nephesa marginella. Walker, J. Linn. S. Zool. i, p. 161 (1857). 



Pceciloptera fimhriolata, Stal, Ofvers. K. Y.-A. Forh. p 247 (1854). 



Phyllyphanta fimbriolata, Stal, Freg. Eug. Resa, p. 282 (1859) ; Ofvers. 1. o., 

 p. 159 (1865). 



Head greenish- yellow : frons elevated in a small, conical, some- 

 what projecting process : pro- and meso-notum, fresh green with four 

 longitudinal lines converging towards the head, the two internal a little 

 broader and more visible, also some patches on the sides, bright orange 

 or miniaceous red : metanotum and abdomen yellowish- white mingled 

 with some green tints : head beneath, four anterior tibiae, and anus pale 

 brown : entire body beneath, four anterior femora, and posterior feet 

 very pale green : tegmina falciform, very fresh green, reticulated orange, 

 outline bordered russet and dentate within, very slender at the side and 

 external margin, broader on the posterior margin ; towards the end of 

 this margin, at the second third from the base, there is a small rounded 

 russet patch touching the border and placed near the exterior dilated 

 angle : wings milky- white with slightly greenish and bluish reflections : 

 abdomen and feet greenish- white [^Guerin). Long, 6; exp. teg., 19 

 millims. 



Stal's description of his P. fimhriolata, which was clearly made 

 from a faded specimen, is : — " Yellow, streak on vertex and thorax and 

 entire limbus of tegmina, fuscous-sanguineous, disc of thorax with two 

 luteous streaks ; frons reflexly-margined, furnished on both sides with 

 a very obsolete ridge towards the base, but towards the apex entirely 

 evanescent ; disc of thorax bicarinate ; scutellum 4-carinate, with the 

 lateral ridges abrupt behind the middle, somewhat flat between the 

 median ridges ; colour of tegmina changing into subvirescent, cellules 

 margined lutescent, clavus granulate inwards ; wings milk-white, o long 

 7 ; exp. teg., 20 millims." 



Reported from Cochin- China, Malacca, Borneo ; the Indian Museum 

 possesses a specimen from Siam, 



