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1884.] E. T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian Rliyncliota. 215 



11. Plattpleura nobilis. 



Cicada nobilis, Germar in Thon's Archiv. ii, fasc. 2, p. 9 (1830) ; in Silber- 

 mann's Rev. Ent. ii, pt. 2, p. 82, (1834). 



Cicada hemiptera, Guerin, Voyage Belanger Ind. Orient, p. 500 (1834). 



Platypleura semilucida, Walker, List Horn. B. M. i. p. 20 (1850). 



Platijple^ira nobilis, Butler, Cist. Ent. i, p. 191 (1874) ; Distant, J. A. S. B. xlviii, 

 (2), p. 38 (1879). 



Reported from Java, Singapore, and Tenasserim : there is a specimen 

 in the Indian Museum from Tenasserim. As this is a typical species of 

 the smaller members of this genus, I re- describe it, the original de- 

 scription being practically unobtainable. 



Tawny. Face tawny, moderately convex, transversely sulcated with 

 the furrows brown and a longitudinal groove broadly black. Rostrum 

 extending to the fourth abdominal segment, tip piceous. Eyes dull 

 castaneous, with a narrow black fascia, extending from anterior margin 

 around the base of the antennge. Vertex with a bright tawny fascia on 

 anterior margin and two minute obconical black marks, extending from 

 posterior margin on each side of the ocelli, obsolete in some. Prono- 

 tum tawny, furrowed, furrows black ; a line from the middle of the 

 anterior border to the posterior border, black and quadrangularly expanded 

 on the disc. Mesonotum fulvous brown, with two moderate obconical 

 black spots, extending backward from the fore border, midway between 

 which there is a discal line connected with a fascia on the hinder border 

 also black. On the outer side of both the moderate obconical spots is 

 a large obconical patch, black, and extending from the fore border almost 

 to the hind border. The metanotum is bright tawny. The abdominal 

 sutures are black, edged with fulvous, slightly pubescent. Below, the 

 fulvous margins of the abdominal segments alone appear. Opercula 

 tawny, brown at the base, rounded, small, wide apart. Legs tawny, 

 anterior and middle femora spotted brown, posterior tibioe spinose. Teg- 

 mina, basal third tawny, with some irregular lighter markings : a hyaline 

 spot, at the apex of the radial area, just above a dark brown spot which 

 extends into the costal membrane : a black spot in the ulnar space. 

 Apical two-thirds of tegmina hyaline, with three minute brown spots 

 on the apical anastomoses of the first and second ulnar areas, also a very 

 minute brown spot on each side of the middle of the vein separating the 

 second from the third apical area and the third from the fourth ; six 

 minute brown spots on the limbus. Basal two- thirds of the wings brown, 

 with a discal streak extending to the anal angle, tawny ; apical third, 

 hyaline ; flaps tawny with a brown line on the suture. Length body 10 ; 

 exp. teg. 46 ; length of one tegniun 2i ; breadth of pronotum 8 millims. 

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