20 E. T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian Rh^^ncliota. [No. 1, 



43. Aphrophora sigillifera, Walker. 

 Aphrophora sigillifera, Walker, List Horn. B. M. iii. p. 700, (1851), 



Testaceous shining : head and thorax flat, with a slight yellow keel 

 rudely punctured, thinly covered with tawny down : head above short 

 mostly pitchy, slightly concave on the posterior margin, rather more 

 convex in front ; its length less than one-fourth of its breadth ; face 

 ferruginous, partly pitchy, slightly convex, with a very narrow yellow 

 stripe which is most distinct towards the epistoma and is there traversed 

 by two slightly curved yellow bands, one large, the other shorter and 

 narrower ; on each side, are about ten oblique, slightly curved transverse 

 ridges : rostrum ferruginous with a pitchy tip : pectus with a short, 

 broad, black band between the fore and middle legs : abdomen luteous, 

 reddish on each side and beneath : legs ferruginous, spotted with yellow, 

 hind femora yellow : tegmina lurid, thickly punctured, narrow and 

 conical towards the tips which are almost acuminate, brownish along part 

 of the fore-border, on each side of a large subquadrate whitish spot 

 which is in the middle : wings almost colourless, veins black, tawny at 

 the base (Walker). Body long 7: wings long 15 millims. 



Reported from N. India. 



Genus Clovia, Stal. 

 Hem. Afric. iv. p. 68, 75 (1866) : Of vers. Kong. Vet. Aka. Forh. p. 723, (1870). 



Head as broad as the thorax, rounded or roundly subangulated, 

 varying in length, above flat, anterior margin of the lobes of the vertex 

 acute, not furrowed ; frons somewhat convex, clypeus moderately pro- 

 duced at the apex, not extending beyond the apex of the anterior coxse : 

 position of ocelli variable : thorax sexangular with the anterior lateral 

 margins iisually very short, parallel or very slightly diverging backwards, 

 scutellum longer than broad : tegmina with the commissural margin 

 beyond the apex of the clavus subangulated or a little rounded : posterior 

 tibisD bispinose (Stal). 



44. Clovia guttifer. Walker. 



Ptyelus guttifer, Walker, List Horn. B. M. iii. p. 712, (1851). 

 Clovia guttifer, Stal, Hem. Afric. iv. p. 75, (1866). 



Lurid : head and thorax flat, finely punctured, thickly tawny pubes- 

 cent • head with a short yellow band and two black dots on fore-border ; 

 face yellow, with a flat, middle stripe, on each side of which are nine 

 oblique very shallow ridges, spaces between them tawny ; rostrum tawny 

 with a black tip ; abdomen luteous, pectus and legs yellow : tips of the 

 spines and feet pitchy : tegmina ferruginous, thickly covered with tawny 



