1886.] E. T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian Rhyncliota. 145 



Cicada ocellata, De Geer, Mem. iii, p. 220, t. 33, f. 2-3 (1773) : Olivier, Enc. 

 Meth. V, p. 751. t. 112, f. 3 (1790) : Cape. 



Tettigonia marmorata, Fabr., Syst. Rhyng. p. 38 (1803), Amboina. 



Cicada marmorata, Germar, Thon's Arcliiv. ii (2), p. 17 (1830) ; Silb., Rev. 

 Ent. ii, p. 79 (1834) : Platypleuraid. Sign., B. S.E.F. (6 ser.) i, p. xlii (1881), China. 



Oxy pleura {?) marmorata, Walker, 1. c. p. 24 (1850). 



Platypleura ciliaris Stal, Hem. Fabr. ii, p. 3 (1869) ; Ofvers. K. V-A. Forh. p. 

 600 (1862) ; id. p. 707 (1870) : Butler, Cist. Ent. i, p. 185 (1874). 



Stal (in Hem. Afric. iv, p. 16, 1866) makes P. ocellata, De Geer of 

 "Walker, (excl. syn.) and P. capensis, Am. & Serv., one with P. hirti- 

 pennis, Germar, and also Cicada plumosa, Germar, a variety of the same 

 species ; again (in Ofvers. K. V.-A. Forh., p. 500, 1862) he unites Gicada 

 ocellata, De Geer, Gicada varia, Olivier, from the Cape, and Platypleura 

 arcuata, Walker (Ins. Saund. p. 1), from Cerarn, with P. ciliaris, Linn., 

 but Butler (1. c.) keeps the last two separate. Olivier is the only one 

 that gives India as the locality ; and I include the species in our Indian 

 list as it is also recorded from Java and the Philippines, the fauna of 

 which have a marked affinity with that of India. 



Thorax with a rim : tegmina pale with white patches : wings 

 blackish ferruginous, with a yellowish band bent back towards the disc 

 and sometimes triple : abdomen blackish with pale and ciliated rings 

 (Olivier). Head and thorax green, spotted black : tegmina fuscous and 

 variegated cinereous, with two whitish spots before the costa, which is 

 virescent at the base : wings dull black with two small lines at the base, 

 and a spot towards the margin, rufous; body cinereous (Fahr.). 



3. Platypleura sphinx. Walker. 



J. A. S.B. liii, (2), p. 213, no. 6. 



S ? . Body pale tawny, tinged with white, briefly whitish pilose : 

 vertex with two brown bands : rostrum tawny, tip brown reaching the 

 hind coxae : antennae dark tawny : mesonotum with four obconical dark 

 brown marks, outer pair long, inner pair short and pointing to two dots of 

 the same colour : legs pale tawny ; tips of the tibiae darker ; claws pice- 

 ous, tawny at the base ; first femora with tawny teeth which hardly rise 

 above the surface ; hind tibiae with tawny spines which are piceous 

 at the tips : tegmina whitish, brownish tawny towards the base and hav- 

 ing elsewhere some irregular pale brown marks which, here and there, 

 include white spots ; veins yellow : wings brown, mostly yellowish white 

 towards the base and having a large spot of the same colour in the disc, 

 white at the tips with a white spot on the hind border which elsewhere 

 is brown ; flaps yellowish- white, with broad brown borders. 



