1885.] E. T. AikiuBon— Notes on Indian Rliynchota. 13 



23. COSMOSCAKTA ANDAMANA, Distant. 



Cosmoscarta andamana, Distant, Trans. Ent. Soc. p. 175, (1878) : Watox'honso, 

 Aids Idcnt. Ins. i. t. 58 (1880-82). 



Sanguineous, finely and closely punctured : tcgmina with a broad 

 band across the middle and the apex broadly black : these bands are 

 united at the inner margin, sometimes very broadly : wings sordidly 

 hyaline with veins much darker, base slightly sanguineous : femora, 

 tibiae and tarsi piceous, hind tibiaa with an acute spine {Distant). Body 

 long 9 : exp. teg. 24 millims. 



Reported from the Andaman Islands. 



Genus Phtmatostetha, Stal. 



Ofvers. Kong. Vet. Aka. Forh. p. 721, (1870). 



Frons tumid, seldom forming an angle below the middle, without a 

 keel or longitudinal impression. Ocelli nearer each other than the eyes. 

 Thorax with the posterior margin before the scutellum slightly sinuated 

 posterior lateral margins straight or sinuated. Mesosternum furnished 

 posteriorly with two conical tubercles. Feet moderate, posterior tibisa 

 armed with one or two spines. 



24. Phtmatostetha stalii, Butler. 



Tomaspis circumducta, Stal {nee Walker), Ofvers. Kong. Vet. Aka. Forh. p. 160, 

 (1865). 



Phymatostetha circumducta, Stal 1. c. p. 721, (1870). 

 Phymatostetha stalii, Butler, Cist. Ent. i. p. 267, (1874). 



Blackish : frons, apices of the lobes of the vertex, apical and lateral 

 margins of anterior part of the thorax, scutelkim before the middle, two 

 bands on the tegmina, equally removed from each other and from the 

 base and the apex, the anterior small stripe on the corium, and the 

 scutellary limbus of the clavus beyond the middle, sordidly lutescent ; 

 apical limbus of corium pellucid fuscous : wings fuscous, subsanguineous 

 at the base : scutellum subequilateral ; mesostethium with two distinct 

 obtuse tubercles. Body long 14 : exp. teg. 34 millims. 



Reported from E. India. 



25. Phtmatostetha circumducta, Walker. 



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

 Cercopis costalis, Walker, List, 1. c. iii. p. 664^, (1851)- 

 Phymatostetha circumducta, Butler, Cist. Ent. i. p. 268, (1874). 



The name C. costalis (I. c. iii. p. 664), had already been given to a 

 local form of G. theora, White, by Walker (I. c. iii. 651) and was subse- 

 quently changed by him to C. circumducta for this species. 



