102 E. T, Atkinson — Notes on Indian RLyncliota. [No. 2, 



44. Tettigonia opponens, Walker. 



Tettigonia opponens, Walker, List Horn. B. M. iii, p. 757 (1851) : Signoret, A. S. 

 E. F. (3 eer.) i, p. 667, t. 21, f. 10 (1853). 



Black : head and thorax slightly convex, head bright orange, con- 

 cave along the posterior margin, more convex in front, w^ith tw^o clavate 

 stripes and a spot between the tips of the stripes, black ; beneath pale 

 yellow, twice broader than long ; face oval with a flat pale orange disc, 

 a black stripe along two-thirds ef each side is united to a black stripe on 

 the clypeus, which is ridged and slightly compressed ; rostrum pale 

 yellow : thorax with a broad orange band which is sometimes half inter- 

 rupted on the hind border and is waved along the fore border near each 

 side of which it includes a little black cross streak, also a large subqua- 

 drate orange spot whose hind border is notched on each side near the tip 

 of the scutellum which is tawny ; legs pale yellow : tegmina dark grey 

 with three orange stripes, costal and median united at the base, interior 

 hardly extending beyond the middle, veins brown (Walk., Sign.). Long 

 12 millims. 



Reported from N. India. 



Subfamily Acocephalina, Signoret. 



Acocephalidoe, Fieber, Kat. p. 10 (1872) : Acocephalides, Piitou, Signoret, A. S. 

 E. F. (5 ser.) ix, p. 47 (1879). 



45. Acocephalus stramineus. Walker. 



Acocephalus stramineus, Walker, List Horn. B. M. iii, p. 847 (1851) ; Stal, Ofvers. 

 K. V.-A. Forh. p. 494 (1862) : Signoret, A. S. E. F. (5 ser.) ix, p. 88 (1879).' 



Bythoscopus stramineus. Distant, Scient. Ees. 2nd Yarkand Miss. p. 18 (1879). 

 Bythoscopus indicatus, Walker, List 1. c. Suppt. p. 266 (1858). 



Pale testaceous ; head slightly rugose, a little narrower than the 

 thorax, rounded and almost semicircular in front, less sinuate behind • 

 about four times broader than long ; vertex longer in the middle than on 

 the sides ; two black dots on the anterior border which forms a slight 

 rim ; face flat, broad, punctured : thorax transversely striated : scutel- 

 lum very slightly punctured : tegmina almost colourless, punctured 

 nearly to the tips, pale testaceous towards the base : wings colourless 

 {Walker). Body long, 9| ; teg. 21 millims. 



Reported from Celebes, Java, N. China, Sind valley. 



Genus Hecalus, Stal. 



A. S. E. F. (4 ser.) iv, p. 65 (1864) : Hem. Afric. iv, p. 113 (1866) : Signoret, A. 

 S. E. F. (5 ser.) ix, p. 266 (1879) : includes Glossocratus, Fieber (Rev. Mag. Zool* 

 (3 ser.) ii, p. 403, 1875). 



