148 E. T. Atkinson — Kotes on India^i Rhynchota. [No. 2, 



witli tawny spines ; first femora with two small teetli beneath : tegmi- 

 na colourlesS) white at the base above, brown at the base beneath ; from 

 this brown hue a short tawny stripe proceeds along the hind border and 

 communicates with an oblique brown band which crosses the tegmen 

 near its base : wings colourless, dark brown with a whitish outline for 

 near half the surface from the base which is tawny ; flaps dark brown ; 

 veins tawny ; piceous at the tips of the tegmina. 



8. Plattpleura octoguttata, Tabricius. 

 J. A. S. B. liii, (2), p. 216, no. 13. 



Head pallid with two dull-black parallel bands, three ocelli in 

 the middle of the upper dilated band, two dots and a pale spot in the 

 middle of the lower : thorax anteriorly rufous, a broad pallid band in the 

 middle, posteriorly dull black with a great trifurcate spot, testaceous : 

 abdomen black : tegmina at the base black ; at the middle with four, large 

 white spots 3-1 ; at the apex, hyaline : wings short, black, posterior 

 margin, white (Fair.). 



d, ?. Testaceous-flavescent, whitish sericeous: disc of thorax, 

 testaceous : two bands on the head and spots on the scutellum, black : 

 anterior band on the head in front spotted yellow : tegmina vitreous, 

 scarcely basal half fuscous ; spot near the apex of the radial area and 

 anterior band, whitish, opaque ; anastomoses margined fuscous ; small 

 spots (sometimes wanting) arranged in two subapical rows, fuscous : 

 wings black-fuscous, veins sanguineous towards the base ; broad vein- 

 less limbus colourless, vitreous ; head very broad (Stdl). 



9. Platypleura subrufa, Walker. 

 J. A. S. B. liii, (2), p. 216, no. 14. 

 2 . Body tawny : two stripes on the head of which the fore one 

 forms a circlet on the face, a row of bands on each side of the face, tip 

 of rostrum, the antennae, two marks on each side of the scutellum, black : 

 rostrum tawny reaching the hind coxae : posterior lobe of the pronotum 

 pale tawny, piceous ; mesonotum with four black marks, side pair large 

 and obconical, inner pair smaller and nearly round, a black dot behind 

 each of the latter : posterior margins of the abdominal segments and 

 the tip mostly black : legs tawny, claws paler with black tips ; 

 tegmina colourless with a broad white band one-third of the length from 

 the base ; the colourless part includes a brown band, its cross- veins 

 are clouded with brown and there are two imperfect rows of brown 

 dots on the tips of the longitudinal veins of the marginal areolets : 



