338 E. T. Atkiiisoti — Neiv or little known Indian Rh^^nchota. [No. 4, 



TiiAMNOTETTix NiGRO-riCTA, Stal, Ofvers. K. V. A. FoTh. p. 740 (1870). 



$ . Yellow-virescent, smooth, shining : with the face, anterior sub- 

 impressed, transverse line on the vertex, anterior margin of the prono- 

 tum, scutellary and commissural margins of the clavus, a spot before the 

 middle extended to the claval suture and there acutely produced hind- 

 wards, and third apical part of corium, pectus, abdomen, greatest part of 

 the femora, anterior tibi}» and the tarsi, black : the last tibise at the source 

 of the spines spotted black : ventral incisures flavescent. Closely allied 

 to T. hipunctata, Fabr. (J. A. S. B. Pt. II, p. Ill, 1885), differs in having 

 the head shorter, more obtuse, anteriorly obtusely rounded, and in the 

 marking. Head as broad as the thorax, but somewhat shorter; vertex 

 a little longer in the middle than at the eyes, hardly twice as broad as 

 the eyes, anteriorly within the margin transversely sub-impressed. Long, 

 5 ; broad, 1 J mill. 



This species was described by Stal from the Philippines. It has 

 since been procured from Borneo, Sumatra, Ceylon (mihi) and various 

 parts of India (mihi) and will easily be recognised as one of the small 

 green insects that suddenly appear towards the end of the rains (Septem- 

 ber usually) in Calcutta. During the few days that they occur they may 

 be found at night in considerable heaps beneath the lamps in the public 

 streets, and they disappear as abruptly as they come. T. hipunctata, 

 Fabr., appears at the same time. M. Lethierry of Lille has been good 

 enough to identify this species for me. 



FuLGORA CONNECTENS, Atkinson (PL XV ; middle figure and head to left.) 



This beautiful species has already been described by me (J. Pt. II, 

 p, 130, 1885), and I am now enabled to give a figure drawn by Babu 

 B. L. Das. (Type in Indian Museum.) 



FuLGORA AMPLECTENS, Atkinson (PL XV; lower middle figure and head.) 



This species has also been described (1, c. p. 133) and the figure has 

 been drawn by the same artist. (Type in Indian Museum.) 



FuLGORA ANDAMANENSis, Distant. (PL XV : upper middle figure and 



head to left). 



This species has been described (1. c. p. 135) and the present figure 

 represents the interesting variety from the Nicobar islands referred to 

 in the description already given (L c. p. 136). There is little doubt that 

 in this genus, the shape and size of the cephalic process must, in many 

 cases, be looked to for specific characters rather than the markings on 



