1886.] E. T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian Rhynchota. 147 



age piceous, castaneous. Underside with legs ocliraceous : rostrum ex- 

 tending to tlie second abdominal segment ; its tip, two spots on tlie sixth 

 abdominal segment, knees, and tarsi piceous : tegmina dark brown with 

 pale semi- opaque markings, especially on the apical half. Basal third 

 thickly covered with pale pubescence and containing five dark-brown 

 spots, of which the most prominent are two which are subcostal, situate 

 beyond the middle of this space, and a third one below the basal of those 

 two spots. Remainder of tegmina less pubescent with a number of whi- 

 tish spots, of which the most prominent are a transverse row stretching 

 across from near the costa to the inner border, immediately beyond the 

 basal third pubescent space ; another more waved row beyond the mid- 

 dle, confluent near the costa, where they are very visible below : a subapi- 

 cal marginal row of five whitish oblong spots, arranged on the veins of 

 which the apical ends are dull brown ; and an outer marginal row of six 

 dark-brown spots, also arranged on the veins and of which the lowest is 

 the largest ; a dull whitish fusiform spot on the inner angle which is very 

 distinct on the underside : wings castaneous with a dark brown marginal 

 border and some suffused dark-brown discal streaks extending across the 

 wings (Distant). 



6. Plattpleura nicobarica, Butler. 



J, A. S. B liii, (2), p. 233. 



Allied to P. fulvigera, Walker, from the Philippines, but larger, with 

 tegmina longer ; the whole of the spots crossing the coriaceous area, 

 testaceous ; those crossing its apex, smaller ; the blackish transverse 

 spots considerably smaller : the wings longer, the subapical, transverse, 

 fasciolse replaced by 3-4 decreasing longitudinal fulvous streaks : prono- 

 tum considerably broader, its lateral angles more oblique and therefore 

 more prominent (Butler). Body long, 21 : exp. teg. 77 millims. 



7. Platypleura basialba. Walker. 



J. A. S. B. liii, (2), p. 214, no. 10. 



S . Body yellow, whitish pubescent, whitish pulverulous beneath t 

 band in front and behind on the frons, also a stripe of short bands on 

 each side, slender bands on the gense, bands on the antennae and their 

 tips, seven small marks on the pronotum, three stripes on the mesono- 

 tum of which the side pair are oblique and the middle one straip-ht, 

 widened on each side by the fore border, and a small spot on each 

 side near the hind border, black : eyes and antennoe tawny ; ocelli red : 

 abdomen black ; drums, tip and hind borders of the segments yellow : 

 legs yellow, briefly whitish pubescent ; tips of claws black : hind tibise 



