16(^ E. T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian Rliynchota. [No. 2, 



44. DuNDUBiA (?) GUTTIGERA, Walker. 

 Dimduhia guttigera, Walker, J. Linn. S. Zool. i, p. 83 (1856). 



Testaceous : head with, three angular stripes and an elliptical ring- 

 let in front and on each side of it transverse lines, two dorsal nearly- 

 parallel stripes on pronotum, five stripes on the mesonotum of which 

 the inner pair are abbreviated and the outer pair are interrupted, black : 

 opercula small, rounded : abdomen ferruginous : tegmina and wings 

 vitreous, the former with a brown spot on each transverse veinlet and 

 on the tip of each marginal vein CTTaZ/ver). Body along, 23; exp. teg. 

 71 millims. 



Reported from Malacca, Singapore. 



Genus Melampsalta, Kolenati, Stal. 



J. A. S. B. liii, (2), p. 225. 



Head somewhat as broad as the anterior breadth of the thorax ; 

 vertex about twice as broad as the eyes : frons slightly or moderately 

 convex, furnished with a more or less distinct, median, longitudinal 

 groove : thorax broader posteriorly than anteriorly, the lateral margins 

 obtuse, rarely a little dilated : ulnar veins of the tegmina contiguous at 

 the base or united towards the base : eight apical areas, basal cell 

 quadrangular : last ventral segment in ? very deeply and broadly emar- 

 ginate at the apex : tympana entirely visible above : opercula small or 

 moderate : first pair of femora beneath 3 — 4 spinose (Stal). 



Genus Cosmopsaltria, Stal. 

 J. A. S. B. liii, (2), p. 226. 



The subgenera founded by Stal (1. c.) are thus distinguished : — 



a. Frons very tumid, seen from above distinctly produced before 

 the juga : clypeus rounded at the apex or narrowly roundly subtrun- 

 cated. 



h. Thorax broad anteriorly, entire lateral margins distinctly am- 

 plified, ramus of the interior ulnar vein distinctly curved towards the 

 base: — Platylomia, Stal (O.flavida, Guerin). 



h b. Thorax much narrowed anteriorly, lateral margins not or only 

 very slightly amplified : ramus of the interior ulnar vein straight or 

 slightly curved : Cosmopsaltria^ Stal {G. spinosa, Fabr.) 



a a. Frons slightly convex, not or but very slightly prominulous 

 before the juga : last dorsal segment in s acutely dentated on both 

 sides at the apex : clypeus narrowly truncated or sinuately truncated 

 at the apex : — Biceropygay Stal {C obtecta, Fabr.). 



