1885.] E. T. Atkinson— :^^o/e5 on TwUan RLyncliota. Ill 



narrower than the eyes, gradually somewhat amplified forwards ; face 

 dilated, more or less reclined, frons occupying the greatest part of the 

 intraocular breadth of the face, very slightly convex ; clypcus produced 

 and amplified at the apex, truncated : ocelli situate on the apical margin 

 of the head near the eyes : thorax transverse, short, shorter than the 

 scutelluni : scutcUum hardly shorter than long, subcquilateral, large : 

 tegmina margined at the apex, valvate behind the clavus, wi^h five apical 

 areas : feet somewhat long; posterior tibiae very spinose (Stal). 



55. Jassus deplanatus, Spangberg. 

 Jassus deplanatus, Spangberg, Ofvers, K. V.-A. Forh. no 8, p. 23 (1879). 

 .'' Cct'lidia indica, Walker, List Horn. B. M. iii. p. 855 (1851). 

 .'' Tettigonia jactans, Walker, 1. c. Suppt. p. 357 (1858). 



Sordid yellowish white ; vertex, face and feet weakly subferrugi- 

 nous yellowish, sides of fruns weakly cinnabar : pronotum and scutellum 

 black-fuscous, the former with sordidly flavescent- white granules ; pec- 

 tus and abdomen black, the former more or less spotted with flavescent, 

 segments of the latter, posteriorly, narrowly margined with sordid yel- 

 low ; tegmina sordidly flavescent white, densely spotted with fuscous ; 

 costal spot a little beyond the middle subtriangular, large, sordidly 

 whitish hyaline and a fuscous spot placed behind the preceding, both 

 fuscescent at the apex, veins more obscure, fuscous, sordidly spotted 

 with white : wings fuscescent. The last segment of the abdomen in the 

 2 almost twice as long as the penultimate, slightly sinuated on both sides 

 at the apex, median lobe somewhat produced, rounded posteriorly (^Spcing- 

 herg). $, body long, 8 ; broad, 2 J : body and tegmina long, 9 millims. 



Reported from E. India. 



Genus Thamnotettix, Zetterstedt. 

 Ins. Lapp. p. 292 (1840) : Stal, Hem. Afric. p. 101, 122 (1866) : Scott, E. M. M. 

 xii. p. 21 (1875). 



Body oval or very oblong : head variable in breadth and shape, 

 obtuse or very obtuse on the anterior margin : vertex horizontal : face 

 dilated, reclined, slightly convex ; frons occupying the greatest part of 

 the intraocular breadth of the face : ocelli placed on the anterior 

 margin of the head at or near the eyes : thorax transverse : scutellum 

 m.oderate or small, equal in length to the thorax or shorter : tegmina 

 membranous with 4-5 apical areas, most often valvate and margined at 

 the apex : feet moderate, posterior tibioB, very spinose (Stal). 



56. Thamnotettix BiruNCTATA, Fabricius. 



Cicada 2-punctata, Fabricms, Syst. Rliyng. p. 78 (1803). 

 Thamnotettix hipunctaia, Stal, Hem. Fabr, ii. p. 82 (18G9). 



