150 E. T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian Rhyncliota. [!N"o. 2, 



jialer than in 9 , the former nearly colourless, dark tawny towards the 

 base with four broad irregular brown bands and along the hind border 

 two connected rows of brown spots : wings dull tawny with two brown 

 bands, the inner one broader than the other but not extending more 

 than half across the wing ; flaps tawny (Walk.) Long, 21 ; teg., 67 

 millims. Reported from China. 



13. Plattpleura htalinolimbata, Signoret. 

 Platypleura hyalinoUmhata, Sign., Bnll. S. E. F. (6 ser.), i, p. xlii (1881). 



Close to p. rejpanda, Linn., from which it differs in having the wings 

 entirely of a velvety blackish brown, bordered by a broad hyaline limbus, 

 veins of a distinct yellow : tegmina with the flattened marginal space 

 between the side and the veins broader than in P. repanda ; the expansion 

 of the pronotum is concave and sinuated below, whilst in P. repanda it is 

 convex (Sign.). 



Reported from China. 



14. Plattpleura repanda, Linnasus. 



Cicada repanda, Linn., Syst. Nat. i (2) p. 707 (1766) : Mus. Lud. Ulr. p. 15^ 

 (1764) : Gmelin ed. Syst. Nat. i (3) p. 2097 (1782) : De Geer, Mem. iii, p. 209, t. 33, f. 

 1 (1773) : Olivier, Eno. Meth., V, p. 754 (1790) : Germar, Thon's Arch, ii, faso. 2, p. 

 220 (1830); Silb., Rev. Ent. ii, p. 78 (1834) : Guerin in Tigny Hist. Ins. vi, p. 189 

 (1830). 



Tettigonia repanda, Fabricius, Spec. Ins. ii, p. 321 (1781); Mant. Ins. ii, p. 267 

 (1787) ; Ent. Syst. iv, p. 23 (1798); Syst. Ehyng. p. 41 (1803). 



Fidicina ? repanda, Walker, List Horn. B. M. ii, p. 90 (1851). 



Platypleura ? repanda, Walker, I. c. Snppt. p. 13 (1858). 



Tawny or yellowish brown; a black line and several small black 

 patches on the thorax : opercula very large : abdomen black above : 

 tegmina and wings tawny, transparent along the posterior margin near 

 which is a series of transparent oval patches ; tegmina have a like patch 

 on the exterior border and a waved transverse line, brown in the middle. 

 Body long, 27 millims. 



Reported from India. 



Genus Tacua, Amyot & Serville. 



J. A. S. B. liii, (2), p. 217. 



Head broad, as broad as the thorax, triangular, with a longitudinal 

 groove in the middle of the frons : eyes stout, prominulous : entire 

 lateral margins of thorax somewhat flattened out, anterior angles 

 rounded, tegmina and wings entirely opaque : abdomen stout, tumid ; 

 opercula in $ very large, reaching at least the middle of the abdomen 

 {A. Sf 8.). 



