1885.] E. T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian Rhynchota. ^ 



Black, rostrum and legs piceous ; abdomen shining violaceous ; 

 tegmina blackish-brown with two narrow, sliglitly undulating, sordid 

 sanguineous bands ; one, near the base ; the other, at two-thirds of the 

 length : wings dark brown, veins black. Body long, 16 : exp.teg. 40 

 millims. 



Reported from Silhat : the Indian Museum possesses a specimen 

 from the JSTaga hills. 



11. COSMOSCARTA LYDIA, Stal. 



Cercopis hjdia, Stal, Ofvers. Kong. Vet. Aka. Forh. p. 149, (1865). 

 Cosmoscavta hjdia, Butler, Cist. Eut. i. p. 257, (1874). 



Brick red or saffron-yellow : head, anterior part of thorax, scutellum 

 (except the frena), tegmina, anterior lateral part of prostelhiam, 

 metastethium, anus and tarsi, black : base of the tegmina brick-red or 

 saffron-yellow : wings sordidly hyaline, apex very slightly infuscate, base 

 palely saffron. Body long 8 — 10 : exp. teg. 20 — 23 millims. 



Sometimes tegmina have no saffron bands and sometimes hare two, 

 one before and the other behind the middle. 



Reported from E. India. 



12. CosMOSCARTA TEiGONA, Walker. 



Cercopis trigona, Walker, List Horn. B. M. iii. p. 680, (1851). 

 Cercopis amplicollis, Walker, 1. c. Suppt. p. 175, (1858). 

 Cosmoscarta trigona, Butler, Cist. Ent. i. p. 257, (1874). 



Thorax metallic bluish-black, shining : borders of scutellum, poste- 

 rior margin of segments of abdomen, the anus, coxse and femora, and the 

 tarsi at the base, red : tegmina bluish-black, tips brown, with a bifurcated 

 basal streak and two bands, red ; the basal streak with the median band 

 contain between them an almost triangular patch, bluish black : the limb 

 of the basal bifurcation on the hind border is much broader than that on 

 the costal margin, neither quite reach the median band. Body long 10 — 12 : 

 exp. teg. 23 — 29 millims. 



Reported from 'N. India. 



The Indian Museum possesses specimens from the Khasiya and Naga 

 hills, the Dhansiri valley, and Sibsagar. 



13. Cosmoscarta decisa, Walker. 



Cercopis decisa, Walker, List Horn. B. M. Suppt. p. 175, (1858). 

 Cosmoscarta decisa, Butler, Cist, Ent. i. p. 258, (1874). 



A second species described under this name by Walker (in J. L. S. 



Zool. x. p. 278, No. 296, 1867) has been renamed G. zonata by Butler 



(in Cist. Ent. i. p. 253, 1874.). Walker describes G. decisa thus: 



" Black : head above and prothorax aeneous-green, shining : prothorax 



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