1886.] E. T. Atldnson^Notes on Indian Rhyncliota. 181 



curved towards the base : the two sectors spring from the elongated 

 basal cellule at a right angle, the exterior sector rising at the internal 

 inferior angle, the other a little higher at the tip of the short, oblique, 

 intermediate vein : the rostrum long, reaching the first ventral segment, 

 basal joint prominulous, third joint about 3^ times longer than the 

 second, clypeus long, triangular, acute, four- fifths of the length of the 

 frons : space between the scrobe and the eye almost twice as large as 

 tbe scrobe : mesosternum broadly triangular, convex with a short and 

 weak apical groove : metasternum in the d", obtuse, quadrangular, free. 



65. CiCADATRA STRIATA, Walker. 

 J. A. S. B. liii, (2), 229 no. 71 : liv, (2), 116. 



? , Body tawny : head with a broad, slightly interrupted black 

 band ; face convex, with a row of black bands on each side : rostrum 

 tawny, piceous towards the tip, reaching the hind coxsd : pronotum part- 

 ly black above, with a short, broad, yellow stripe in the middle : meso- 

 notum mostly occupied by four very broad black stripes, the lateral 

 much longer than the median pair and with two tawny streaks : abdo- 

 men mostly piceous above : legs tawny : first femora with three rather 

 long teeth : tegmina and wings colourless, veins tawny, black towards 

 the tips ; the first and second transverse veins clouded with brown : fore- 

 flaps tawny, tips of hind-flaps, brown. Body long, 16| : exp. teg. 44 

 millims. 



66. CiCADATRA XANTES, Walker. 



J. A. S. B. liii, (2), p. 230, no. 75 ; liv, (2), p 117. 



c? . Body tawny : vertex with two very large black spots ; face red 

 above with a piceous stripe in front : rostrum tawny, tip black, reaching 

 the intermediate coxae : antennae tawny, piceous at the bases and tips : 

 pronotum with a yellow stripe on each side of which there is a short, 

 slightly curved stripe and a small spot on the hind border, piceous : 

 mesonotum with four black obconical stripes, the middle pair rather less 

 than half the length of the outer pair and so close together that they 

 almost appear united ; behind them are two piceous spots which join the 

 cross-ridge which is ferruginous and small : abdomen ferruginous with 

 a piceous stripe which tapers from the base to a little beyond the middle 

 and then disappears : drum-covers pale tawny, very small, not half cover- 

 ing the tympana which are ferruginous ; the opercula bright tawny, 

 rather narrow, of moderate size, about one-third the length of the 

 abdomen : legs tawny ; femora striated ferruginous ; tips of claws black 

 fore tibia? and feet ferruginous ; fore femora with two rather long ferrugi- 



