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in the form of this horn, which is slenderer, much more thinly folia- 

 ceous, and jagged, instead of entire, on the edges, so as to resemble a 

 very narrow pinnately-clef t leaf, the mid and lateral ribs of which are 

 represented by the thick and hence opaque axes of the horn and its 

 lateral processes. The fore tibia) have IG teeth on the outer edge and 

 14 on the inner. 



The only measurements of this immature insect that can usefully 

 be given are : — length of pronotum 11, of fore femur 7, height of head, 

 from free edge of labrum to top of horn, 7 millims. 



Hab. Burmah. 



This interesting animal was presented to me many years ago by my 

 friend Mr. William Theobald of the Geological Survey of India. 



Explanation of Plate XII. 



Fig. 1. Phyllothelys westivoodi, W.-M., J, with wings extended, nat. size ; 

 1 a. the head, viewed from in front, x 2 ; lb. the left fore-leg, from the inside, 

 X 2. 



Fig. 2. Phyllothelys westwoodi, $ , with wings extended, nat. size ; 2 a. the 

 head, from behind, x 2 ; 2 &. the same, from in front, x 2 ; 2 c. the end of the 

 abdomen, from above, x 2 ; 2 d. the posterior leg of right side, from in front, x 2. 



Fig. 3. Phyllothelys -paradoxumy n. sp., $ nymph, the head, from in front, 

 X 3. 



IX. — Notes on Indian Rhynchota, No. 1. — By E. T. Atkinson, B. A. 



Unless where expressly stated to be descriptions, the notes attached 

 to each species are merely intended as aids to identification ; and the 

 measurements of specimens not in the Indian Museum have been con- 

 verted into millimetres from the measurements of the several authors. 



HOMOPTERA. 



Family Cicadid^, Westwood, Introd. Mod. Class. Ins. ii, 420 (1840). 



Stridulantia, Stal, Hem. Afric. iv, p. 1 (1866). 



Ocelli three, placed on the disc of the vertex. Pronotum and 

 mesonotum very large. Anterior coxge prismatic, oblong, inserted in the 

 anterior angles of the prostethium : intermediate and posterior coxae 

 briefly subcorneal, somewhat contiguous, remote from the sides of the 

 body. Anterior femora incrassated, very often spinose, tibiae smooth. 

 Tarsi 2 — 3 jointed. Abdomen in the males with an organ of sound on 

 each side at the base. 



