1886.] E. T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian Rhynchota. 77 



Genus Seliza, Stal. 



Berlin Ent. Zeitsclir. vi, p. 312 (1862). 



Head narrower than the thorax ; vertex transverse, concealed : frons 

 of variable length, sometimes subtumid at the base, lateral margins 

 somewhat acutish and slightly reflexed : obsolete ocelli present : anten- 

 nae short, first joint very short : thorax slightly arcuate, prominent in a 

 small tooth anteriorly on both sides at the eyes ; thorax and scutellum 

 without ridges : tegmina moderately ample, contracted slightly near the 

 apex, subtruncated at the apex, apical angles rounded, sprinkled irregu- 

 larly with transverse veinlets, furnished between the apex of the clavus 

 and of the subradial vein with a continued row of transverse veinlets, 

 the space between the subradial vein and cubitus varying in length and 

 breadth, and furnished towards the apex with transverse veinlets : veins 

 on clavus united towards the apex : feet moderate, simple ; last tibise 

 bispinose behind the middle. Allied to Flata, Fabr., but very distinct 

 in the structure and form of the tegmina {8tdl) : type, P. vidua, Stal. 



128. Seliza vidua, Stal. 



Pceciloptera vidua, Stal, Ofvers. K. V.-A. Forli. xi, p. 248 (1854) ; Freg. Eug. 

 Kesa, Ins. p. 281 (1859). 



Seliza vidua, Stal, Berlin Ent. Zeitschr. vi, p. 812 (1862). 



Yellow-testaceous ; frons furnished at the base with an arcuate ridge, 

 and towards the base between the eyes with a longitudinal ridge : teg- 

 mina subparallel, one and a half times longer than the breadth, behind 

 the middle both outwardly and inwardly sinuate, roundly truncated at 

 the apex, adorned with a broad black-fuscous patch, clavus inwardly 

 tuberculate. Head yellow testaceous, at the base itself with a subarcuate 

 transverse ridge ; frons somewhat longer than the breadth, reflexly- 

 margined, furnished with a small ridge towards the base : antennae 

 flavescent, third joint fuscous : thorax yellow-testaceous, semicircularly 

 eubelevated behind the head : scutellum yellow-testaceous, convex, almost 

 four times longer than the thorax : tegmina one and half times longer than 

 the breadth, rounded outwardly from the base, then subparallel, sinuated 

 outwardly and inwardly behind the middle, roundly truncate at the 

 apex, testaceous-yellow ; a large, longitudinal patch, abrupt before the 

 middle, black fuscous ; clavus longitudinally carinately elevated inwards : 

 beneath with feet testaceous-yellow {8tdl) . Long, 6 ; exp. teg., 14 

 millims. 



Reported from Malacca, India. 



129. Seliza teuncata. Walker. 



Flatoides truncatus. Walker, List Horn. B. M. ii, p. 419 (1851). 

 Selixa truncata, Stal, Ofvers. K. V.-A. Forh., p. 490 (1862). 



