334 E. T. Atkinson — New or little hionm Indian Rliynchota. [N'o. 4, 



a : — Var. q-^inis, in which the rufous-testaceons bands at the base 

 and in the middle are reduced to narrow lines, and the apical band to 

 three somewhat distant spots arranged in a triangle. Long, 11 : exp 

 teg. 30 mill. 



b : — Var. trijpiinctata, mihi, in which the basal and median bands on 

 the tegmina are entirely absent and the three apical spots are small 

 and semi-oval and arranged triangularly : base of wings not rufescent. 

 Long, 12 : exp. teg. 30 mill. 



Hab. Var. a, Dibrugarh (Assam) ; Var. h, Dam-Dim (Bhutan 

 Duc4rs). 



COSMOSCAETA OCTOPUNCTATA, Am. & Scrv. 



PI. XV, lower right hand figure. 



Cercopis octopunctata, Hist. Nat. Ins. Hem,, p. 559, t. 10, f. 6 (1843) : "Walker 

 List Horn., iii, p. 656 (1851). 



Cercopis dorsalis, Walker ( (n. b. L), J. Linn. S. Zool. x, p. 283 (1867). 

 Cosmoscarta octopunctata, Butler, Cist. Ent. i, p. 262 (1874). 



A very distinct species : orange-yellow : five black spots on each 

 tegmen of which two before, and two behind, the middle, the fifth on 

 the posterior margin about the middle, and which, when the tegmina are 

 closed, becomes confluent with the similar spot on the other tegmen, so as 

 to make both appear one : there is sometimes another black spot before 

 the reticulated part on the costal margin : pectus, except the lateral 

 margins, and base of the segments of the abdomen above and beneath, 

 black : antero-lateral borders of the pronotum much amplified and flat- 

 tened out at the margin. Long, 17 : exp. teg. 42 mill. 



Hitherto only known from Java and Sumatra, now found at Mung- 

 phu in Sikkim. A second example has the thorax more amplified, shin- 

 ing, and only eight black spots on the tegmina. 



Cosmoscarta greeni, n. sp. 



Head and eyes deep black, the head yellow-pilose : ocelli yellowish 

 with red reflections : pronotum sordid orange-yellow, pilose, with two 

 small impressions near the anterior margin, darker ; metanotum black, 

 margined ochreous : tegmina black, basal fourth of the posterior margin, 

 basal third of the costal margin and therefrom a transverse band pro- 

 ceeding somewhat obliquely towards the posterior streak and almost 

 meeting it, also three spots arranged in a triangle in the apical third, and 

 of which the cordiform apical is largest, red : wings semihyaline, basal 

 third reddish orange, rest fuscous : abdomen above black, with a narrow 

 transverse basal band, reddish-ochreous : pectus, venter and feet black ; 



