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



Black : head shining : frons with a semicircular luteous band which 

 is prolonged in a conical form to the face which on each side is yellow : 

 rostrum yellow, tip pitchy : prothorax with a luteous band along the 

 fore border extending on each side to the base of the tegmina, scutellum 

 lurid on each side ; pectus with large yellow marks on each side : abdo- 

 men purplish black with yellow bands at the tip, ventral surface yellow 

 with three rows of transverse black spots, the side rows on the edge : legs 

 tawny, femora and fore tibise brown, femora yellow beneath : tegmina 

 dark brown with two narrow pale red bands, one at one-third, the other 

 at two-thirds of the length, a yellow stripe extending along the fore- 

 border from the base to the first band where it acquires a tawny hue, a 

 pale red stripe extending along the hind-border from the base nearly to 

 the first band : wings pale brown, almost colourless in part of the disc, 

 luteous at the base, veins black (Walker). Body long 12: wings long 



15 millims. A variety has two subapical spots on the tegmina red. 



Reported from Malabar, Singapore. 



26. Phtmatostetha hilaris, Walker. 



Cercopis hilaris, Walker, List Horn. B. M. iii. p. 665, (1851). 

 Phymatostetha costalis, Stal, Of vers. Kong. Vet. Aka. Forh. p. 721, (1870). 

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



Black : head shining ; frons with a semicircular luteous band which 

 is prolonged in a very broad conical form and occupies the disc of the 

 face : the latter is pitchy, sides and epistoma yellow, rostrum yellow 

 with a black tip : prothorax with a luteous band along the fore-border, 

 extending on each side to the base of the tegmen : pectus yellow, disc 

 black : with 2 — 3 black spots on each side : abdomen purple, under- side 

 yellow with three rows of transverse black spots, the side rows on the edge 

 which is very broad : tegmina dark brown with two narrow yellow bands : 

 the first at one-third of the length, interrupted on the disc and marked 

 by some dots thence to the hind border ; the second, at two-thirds of the 

 length, slightly waved : a yellow spot on the disc between it and the 

 tip ; a yellow stripe extending along the fore border from the base to 

 the first band : wings greyish, tinged with brown at the tips and along 

 the hind borders, luteous at the base. Body long 10 : exp. teg. 25 mil- 

 lims (WalJcer). Stal, 1. c. makes this a synonym of G. costalis, Walker. 



Reported from Malabar. 



27. Phymatostetha stellata, Guerin. 



Cercopis stellata, Guerin, Icon. Regno Anim. Texte. p. 368, (1829-44) : Sfcal, 

 Of vers. Kong. Yet. Aka. Forh. p. 150, (1865). 



Cercopis dorsimacula, Walker, List. Horn. B. M. iii. p. 663, (1851) : J. L. S. Zool. 

 i. p. 95, (1856). 



