lOG E. T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian Rliynchota. [No. 2, 



eyes, with a biarcuated band of vermillion, margin with a slight 

 groove, ocelli a little distant from the eyes ; frons with the sutures 

 concave, then convex at the tip, weakly impressed in front. Clypeus 

 one and half times longer than broad, spatuliform ; lores much round- 

 ed ; genoD broad, tip convex, a little sinuate in front of the sub- 

 ocular piece. Prothorax two and half time broader than long, thrice 

 longer than the vertex and with a vermillion band in front which starting 

 from the middle of the anterior margin proceeds obliquely towards the 

 middle of the lateral borders where it ends in a round spot. Scutellum 

 broader than long with four round dots at the base, two lateral towards 

 the transverse stria and the tip, vermillion. Tegmina hyaline golden-yel- 

 low with the side strong and vermillion up to beyond the middle, veins 

 blackish, the transverse blacker and with two lateral spots along the 

 border, three at the suture and the extremity, black. Wings slightly 

 infuscate with a lighter space in the supplementary cellule : body and 

 feet yellow olive with deeper shades at the base of the abdominal seg- 

 ments : last ventral segment in $ scarcely longer than the preceding, 

 emarginate in the middle with a median lobe, the sides very oblique, 

 trilobate : valvules thick, round, pubescent at the extremity ; hairs yellow 

 at the base, black at the tip : oviduct blackish just extending beyond 

 the valvules (Sign.). 2, body long, 8 millims. 

 Reported from Burma. 



50. Selenocephalus cultratus, Walker. 



Ledra culohata, Walker, List Horn. B. M. iii, p. 827 (1851). 



Ledra cultrata, Walkei', 1. c. iv, p, 1159 (1851). 



Selenocephalus cultratus, Stal, Ofvers, K. Y.-A. Forh. p. 49-1 (1862). 



Testaceous, almost fusiform ; head conical, as broad as the thorax, 

 shagreened, very slightly arched, very slightly concave along the hind 

 border, with a very indistinct middle ridge, on each side of which there 

 is a very slight furrow ; its length a little less than its breadth ; sides 

 slightly angular ; fore-part of the underside with slight diverging ridges 

 which are at right angles to the slight oblique ridges on each side of the 

 face ; a piceous spot in front of each eye : ocelli near the hind border : 

 thorax very slightly convex, hardly striated transversely, indistinctly im- 

 pressed on each side ; scutellum with a slight arched transverse suture 

 near the tip : abdomen as broad as the thorax with seven slight black 

 stripes : legs marked with black : tegmina pale testaceous, not punctur- 

 ed : wings colourless (Walker). Body long 10 ; teg. 14| millims. 



Reported from India. 



Genus Petalocephala, Stal. 

 Stal, Ofvers. K. V.-A. Forh. p. 2GG (185G) ; Hem. Afric. iv, p. 103 (18G6). 



