1885.] E. T. AiVmHon— Notes on Indian Rliyncliota, 91 



24. ScAPnULA SEMiATRA, Fairmairc. 



Scaphula semiatra, Fairmairo, A. S. B, F. (2 scr.) iv. p. 494, t. iii. f. 18, 19 ; t. 

 vii, f. 20 (1846) ; Walkor, List Horn. B. M. ii. p. 589 (1851). 



Brownisli black, shining ; pro thorax somewhat elevated in the mid- 

 dle, terminated posteriorly by a defined, rounded border ; tegmina free, 

 dull black, posterior third transparent : abdomen beneath, anterior feet, 

 knees, and tarsi yellowish; posterior feet blackish (Fairm.) Body 

 long 6 millims. 



Reported from Coromandel ? 



Family Jassid^, Stal. 



Jassida, Stal, Hem. Afric. iv. p. 82 (1866) ; Fieber, Kat. p. 8 (1872) ; Rev. 

 Mag. Zool. (3 ser.) iii., pp. 337, 386, (1875). 



Subfamily Paropina, Fieber. 



Paropida, Fieber, Kat. p. 7 (1872) ; Rev. Mag. Zool. (3 ser.) iii, p. 384 (1875) : 

 Parotides, Sigu. A. S. E. F. (5 ser.) ix, p. 47 (1879). 



Genus Signoretia, Stal. 

 Freg. Eug. Resa, p. 289 (1859). 



Body elongate, subparallel : head with the eyes broader than the 

 thorax, round in front, semilunated on the vertex, subconcave, furnished 

 posteriorly with a high transverse ridge ; frons large, convex, with a 

 much elevated longitudinal ridge ; ocelli placed in a small excavation 

 in the margin of the base of the frons at the eyes : thorax shorter than 

 broad, parallel, anteriorly semicircularly rounded and produced between 

 the eyes, rounded behind, posteriorly convex, anteriorly semicircularly 

 depressed, where it is furnished with two ridges before the apex, lying 

 close to each other : scutellum small, triangular : tegmina longer 

 than the abdomen with the longitudinal veins towards the apex, once 

 joined by the transverse nervures, the intracostal longitudinal YGin 

 forked behind the middle : feet moderate, posterior tibiae three-cornered, 

 angles remotely spinose. Allied to Faropia : ocelli nearer the eyes, frons 

 convex, ridged, thorax differing in shape, the suctellum very small 

 (Stal). 



25. SiGNORETIA MALAYA, Stal. 



Thamnotettix malaya, Stal, Ofvers. K. V.-A. Forh. p. 192 (1855). 

 Signoretia malaya, Stal, Freg. Eug. Resa, p. 290, t. 4, f. 9, a. h. (1859). 



Virescent- whitish, densely and roughly punctured ; tegmina vires- 

 cent whitish hyaline ; entire clavus, space between the costa and the 



