1885.] E. T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian Rhynchota. 105 



Pale yellow, sliining, with a dot at the tip of the clavus and on the 

 middle of the first apical area, black : anterior margin of vertex blackish. 

 Head a little shorter than broad between the eyes, the anterior margin 

 weakly angularly rounded and reflexed, vertex concave, ocelli in the 

 groove very close to the eyes. Frons convex, almost as long as broad, the 

 sides much rounded : genas broad with the angle very obtusely rounded. 

 Prothorax convex anteriorly, concave behind, the lateral margins very 

 slightly convex, almost parallel ; finely, transversely striated. Clypeus 

 with the sides parallel, rounded at the tip. Tegmina rounded at the tips 

 with four broad apical and six discoidal cells, the sixth comprising a 

 small hexagonal cellule with equal sides before the third apical cell ; there 

 is also a supplementary cellule ; limbus very narrow, a transverse vein 

 between the two veins of the clavus. Abdomen long, the last segment (?) 

 twice as long as the penultimate with the margin sinuous, emarginate 

 in the middle and furnished with a rounded median lobe ; valvules one 

 half longer and the oviduct extending beyond them by a third. $, 

 body long, 6 ; broad, 2 millims. 



Reported from Philippines, Ceylon, India. 



Resembles P. wallengrenii, Stal, but differs in the more rounded 

 head, in the number of discoidal cellules, and in the groove on the border 

 of the head (Sig^i.). 



Genus Selenocephalus, Germar. 



Silbermann's Rev. Ent. i, p. 180 (1833) : Burmeister, Handb. ii, (i), p. Ill 

 (1835) : Amyot and Serville, Hist. Nat. Ins. Hem. p. 583 (1843) : Stal, Hem. Afric. 

 iv, p. 108 (1866) : Fieber, Eev. Mag. Zool. (3 ser.) iii, p. 399 (1875). 



Body oblong : head short, broadly rounded at the apex, apical mar- 

 gin with a furrow : vertex flat, horizontal : face dilated, depressed at the 

 base, lateral margins slightly sinuated beneath the eyes : ocelli placed 

 in the furrow of the apical margin of the head at or near the eyes : thorax 

 transverse, rounded anteriorly : scutellum a little broader than long, 

 triangular : tegmina extending beyond the apex of the abdomen, mem- 

 branous, margined at the apex, valvate behind the clavus, with 4-5 apical 

 areas : feet moderate, posterior tibiae, a little compressed, very spinose 

 (Stal). 



49. Selenocephalus egregius, Stal. 



Selenocephalus egregius, Stal, A. S. E. F. (4 ser.) iv, p. 66 (1864) : Signoret, 

 ibid. (5 ser.) x, p. 62, t. 2, f. 52 (1880). 



Light olive green, smooth ; vermillion spots on the head, protho- 

 rax and scutellum, glossy. Head very little broader than the prothorax, 

 rounded in front ; vertex not longer in the middle than towards the 



