10 E. T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian Rhynchota. [No. 1, 



with a very indistinct keel : tegmina whitish, testaceous at the base and 

 with two whitish testaceous bands ; middle band almost equal in breadth 

 and parallel to the basal one ; exterior band contracted hindward : 

 wings greyish- vitreous." Body long 7^ : exp. teg. 17 millims. 



Reported from Darjiling. The Indian Museum possesses a specimen 

 from Sikkim. 



14. CosMOSCARTA UNDATA, Walker. 



Cercopis undata, Walker, List Horn. B. M. iii. p. 659, (1851) : Btltl, Ofvers. 

 Kong. Vet. Aka. Forh., p. 148, (1865). 



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



Black : abdomen shining violaceous : thorax and the spots or bands 

 on tegmina croceous or rufous-testaceous ; an anterior transverse spot 

 on the thorax and the posterior part, black : wings slightly infuscate, 

 veins rufescent towards the base. 



Var. a. Posterior half of thorax black : tegmina with almost the 

 fifth basal part, posteriorly sinuated, a waved band a little before the 

 middle, somewhat interrupted towards the claval suture, also a band 

 beyond the middle, produced posteriorly in its middle, sometimes divided 

 into three spots, rufous-testaceous. Body long 13 : exp. teg. 30 millims. 



This variety is reported from the Himalaya and the Indian Museum 

 possesses specimens from Sibsagar, Assam, and Arakan 



Var. h. about the fourth basal part of the thorax, black : tegmina 

 with a waved band before the middle, twice subinterrupted, emitting at 

 the costal and scutellary margins a stripe, sinuated within, also with 

 three spots disposed in a curved row beyond the middle, the two exterior 

 often confluent, rufous-testaceous. Body long 9 — 10 : exp. teg. 24 millims. 



Reported from Penang. 



15. Cosmoscarta bispecularis. White. 



Cercopis hispecidaris, White, A. & M. N. H. xiv. p. 426, (1844) : Walker, List 

 Horn. B. M. iii. p. 656, (1851) : Stal, Stettin Ent. Zeit. xxii. p. 153, (1866). 

 Cosmoscarta hispecularis, Butler, Cist. Ent. i. p. 259, (1874). 



Cinnabar, shining : thorax with two very large, nearly oval, black spots 

 in front of which are two small, nearly round, black spots ; pectus black ; 

 underside of abdomen with two black bands ; tegmina with a short black 

 stripe at the base, near which three united black spots form a curved 

 band across the wing ; another band is formed in the middle by three 

 separate black spots ; reticulated part at the tips brown ; wings grey, 

 red at the base, brownish along the hind borders and at the tips. Body 

 long 11 — 12 exp. teg. 26 — 29 millims. 



Reported from India, Almora, N. W. P., Penang : the Indian Museum 

 possesses specimens from Assam. 



