146 E. T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian Rhynchota. [No. 2, 



4. Platypleura cj:lebs, Stal. 



J. A. S. B. liii, (2), p. 213, no. 7. 



S. Sericeous, above testaceous; beneath with feet greyish: head 

 above and wings sordid flavescent, middle of the vertex and apical lateral 

 band, frons (basal spot excepted), two minute spots behind the middle 

 of the thorax, two median basal spots on the scutellum, an oblong discoi- 

 dal spot, and another very large, oblong- ob triangular, lateral spot on both 

 sides, extended from the base beyond the middle, also the dorsum of the 

 abdomen, black : venter fuscous : tegraina clouded pale fuscous and 

 greyish-sericeous from the base beyond the middle, vitreous towards the 

 apex ; anastomoses and the apical and subapical spots on the longitudi- 

 nal veins, fuscous : wings very slightly infuscate towards the apex, 

 limbus sordid whitish, very slightly infuscate in the middle. Allied 

 to P. suhrufa, Walker, in stature, breadth of apical limbus of the tegmina 

 and wings, and the form of the thorax, but the frons is more obtuse, 

 much less prominent and the coloration and marking very distinct. 

 Vertex more than twice as broad as the transverse eye ; ocelli almost 

 thrice as distant from each other as from the eyes : frons occupying a 

 little more than one -third of the face : thorax gradually dilated from the 

 base to a distance beyond the middle, thence rounded and abruptly nar- 

 rowed : costa moderately dilated, subcostal vein and costa contiguous 

 throughout their entire length : seventh apical area of the tegmina shor- 

 ter than the eighth : apical limbus of tegmina and wings of equal breadth, 

 that of the tegmina colourless : opercula somewhat longer than their 

 greatest breadth, yellow-greyish, infuscate at the base (Stdl). 



5. Plattpleura andamana, Distant. 



J. A. S. B. liii, (2), p. 214, no. 8. 



? . Tawny pubescent : face moderately convex, transversely furrow- 

 ed, with a deep central longitudinal furrow ; luteous with two short 

 black basal lines on each side of the vertex : a narrow black fascia, ex- 

 tending from eye to eye immediately in front of the ocelli : eyes brilliant, 

 castaneous, broadly pilose behind : pronotum deeply furrowed with fron- 

 tal edge and two small foveae, placed close together near the middle of 

 the hind border, piceous ; mesonotum with two large obconical spots 

 extending backwards from the fore border midway between which there 

 is a discal dart-shaped mark and two dots wide apart near the hind 

 border, black : there are also two other somewhat obscure black marks 

 situate on the fore border on the outer sides of the large obconical spots : 

 metathoi\acic cross with its fore borders piceous : abdomen above with the 

 segmental sutures black, clothed with a luteous pubescence ; anal append- 



