21G E. T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian Rhyncliota. [No. 3, 



Variety, a. — Markings on face and pronotum more distinctly black. 

 The markings on the basal third of the tegmina are more distinctly pale 

 forming a band of five spots extending from the costal membrane through 

 the ulnar areas. The brown spots in the hyaline apical portion broader, 

 the internal apical row produced through the apical areas and the ex- 

 ternal apical row of dots duplicated. The tawny discal streak of the 

 wings wanting, flaps grey hyaline. From Munipur, in Indian Museum. 

 Allied to Platypleura insignisy Distant. 



12. Plattpleura insignis. 



Platypleura insignis, Distant, J. A. S. B. xlviii (2), p. 39, t. 2, f., 2 (1879). 



Allied to the preceding, but tegmina and wings very distinct, the 

 opaque portion being much less than in that species. Body long 15 ; 

 exp. teg. 45 millims. Reported from Tenasserim and Hindustan : a 

 specimen from the former locality is in the Indian Museum. 



(c.) With hlachy white, and red wings. 

 13. Plattpleuea octoguttata. 



Tettigonia octoguttata, Fabricins, Ent. Sjst. Suppl. p. 515 (1798) ; Syst. Rhyng. 

 p. 39 (1803) ; Coqnebert, 111. Ins. i, p. 34, t. 9, f., 1 (1790). 



Oxypleura sanguiflua, Walker, List Horn. B. M. i., p. 24 (1850) ; Ins. Sannd. 

 Horn. p. 2 (1858). 



Pwcilopsaltria octoguttata, Stal, Berl. Ent, Zeitschr. x, p. 168 (186G) (re-described). 



Platypleura octoguttata, Butler, Cist. Ent. i, p. 192 (1874). 



Body long 27 : exp. teg. 80 millims. Reported from the Panjab, N. 

 • India, N. Bengal, S. India. The Indian Museum possesses specimens 

 from Bengal, Calcutta, and Sambhalpur in the Central Provinces. 



14. Platypleura subrufa. 



Oxypleura subrufa, Walker, List. Horn. B. M. i, p. 25 (1850). 



Poicilopsaltria capitata, Stal, Berl. Ent. Zeitschr. x, p. 169 (1866), who joins 

 together 'subrufa' and 'capitata' Olivier (Enc. Meth. v, p. 754, t. 112, f. 10), the 

 former an Indian and the latter a Ceylon species. They have been separated again 

 by Butler (Cist. Ent. i, p. 192) and should remain separate. 



Platypleura subrufa, Butler, Cist. Ent. i, p. 192 (1874). 



Body long 27: exp. teg. 75 millims. Reported from Coromandel 

 and India. 



(d.) With hlacJc, white, and. hroivn wings. 



15. Platypleura bufo. 



Oxypleura bufo, Walker, List Horn. B. M. i. p. 27 (1850). 

 Platypleura bufo, Butler, Cist. Ent. i, p. 195 (1874). 



Body long 25 : exp. teg. 81 millims. Reported from India. 



