1886.] E. T. Atldnson— Notes on Indian Elijncliota. 143 



Fig. 3. Row of a3cidiospores towards the base of a series : showing inter- 

 calary cells or lamellaB most distinctly between the npper spores, 

 X 340. 



„ 4. Matnre ascidiospore, x 340. 



„ 5. Peridial cells, x 340. 



„ 6. Showing a few mycelial filaments in an air-cavity below a stoma, 

 X 849. 



Plate V (Photographs). 



Fig. 7. Transverse section of a needle through an secidium shewing the 

 depth to which its base extends, and a fragment of the pseudoperi- 

 dium outside. 

 „ 8. Longitudinal section of a needle showing a spermagonium above and 

 the margin of an secidium below. 



Yll.-^Kotes on Indian Rhyncliota^ N'o. 6. — Addenda and Index,. 

 By E. T. Atkinson, B. A., President op the Society. 



[Read November 4th, 1885.] 



Genus PCECILOPSALTRIA, StlL 



J. A. S. B. liii, (2), p. 211. 



Basal cell of tegmina irregularly four or somewliat five-angled, very 

 often broad ; ulnar veins altogether distant at the base : head broad, 

 obtuse, with the eyes broader than the scutellum ; vertex more than 

 twice broader than the eyes ; ocelli twice and often thrice more distant 

 from the eyes than from each other ; f rons slightly or moderately convex, 

 at the base before the vertex scarcely or but a little prominent : thorax 

 angulated on both sides : first femora without distinct spines ; metas- 

 ternum elevated, the elevated part furrowed, and somewhat sinuately 

 truncated {Stal, Hem. Afr. iv, p. 2). 



1. P(ECiLOPSALTRiA AFFiNis, Fabricius* 

 J. A. S. B. liii, (2), p. 211, no. 2. 



Body of a moderate size, spotted black : margin of thorax dilated r 

 teo-mina obscurely greyish, posterior margin broadly hyaline with several 

 fuscous spots : wings much shorter^ ful vans', black before the margin, 

 striated fulvous, margin itself not hyaline but fulvous {Fair,). 



S 9 . Pale olivaceous-flavescent or virescent : lores (margin ex- 

 cepted), clypeus (ridge excepted), two small apical spots on, and two 

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