1886.] E. T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian Rhynchota. 179 



tawny : abdomen velvety black with patches of golden hairs : [tym- 

 pana uncovered, tawny, rather large ; opercula pale tawny, small, wide 

 apart ?] : tip of abdomen tawny, with a horn of the same colour : legs 

 yellow ; femora striated black ; tips of the tibiae and of the feet, black ; 

 claws black, tawny at the base ; fore-femora with three robust black 

 teeth ; fore-tibisD mostly black : tegmina colourless, pale buff and marked 

 with buff at the base ; costal margin bright rosy red, darker towards 

 the tips, black on the stigma ; veins tawny, black towards the tips ; 

 first and second transverse veins and the longitudinal vein between 

 them, clouded black : veins of the wings pale tawny with black tips 

 and the tips of the flaps clouded brown. In the ? the abdomen is a little 

 longer and more pointed than in the d . 



S;pecies of doubtful position. 

 Cicada rugipennis, Walker, Ins. Saund., p. 17 (1858). 



d . Luteous-testaceous, stout : pronotum much broader behind than 

 in front, sides straight, sutures strongly marked : abdomen with a black- 

 ish band on the fore border of each segment : wings white, rather 

 broad, very stout and rugulose : tegmina slightly rounded in front, 

 costa and veins reddish, the latter black at the tips ; 1-3 transverse veins 

 and most part of the intermediate veins, clouded black : wings with a 

 short angular band in front at two-thirds of the length. Body long, 

 29i ; teg. 84 millims. 



Reported from India. 



Cicada delineata, Walker, Ins. Saund., p. 17 (1858). 



? . Black, testaceous beneath : ocellar space and two irregular stripes 

 on the head, the frons, margin of pronotum, six irregular stripes on the 

 mesonotum and a spot and dot on each side in front between the inter- 

 mediate and exterior pair of stripes, a band on the posterior margin of 

 each abdominal segment and the abdomen for the most part beneath, legs, 

 and veins on the tegmina towards the base, testaceous : transverse streaks 

 on the frons, six various stripes on the pronotum and the sutures in part, 

 also three spots on each side, stripes on the femora and tibia3 and veins 

 of the tegmina above the base, black : tegmina and wings vitreous. 

 Body long, 21 ; teg., 63 millims. 



Reported from India. 



Cicada subvenosa, Walker, Ins. Sannd., p. 18 (1858). 



d . Pale testaceous : greatest part of the vertex, 2-4 stripes on the 

 pronotum, also a dilated spot by the border, four stripes on the meso- 

 notum of which the middle pair are short and two dots behind these 



