JOURNAL 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL. 



Part II.— NATURAL SCIENCE. 



No. III.— 1885. 



XII. — Notes on Indian Rhyncliota. No. 4. — By E. T. Atkinson, B. A, 



[Keceived July 7th ; — Read August 5th, 1885.] 



Family Fulgorid^, Leach. 



Edin. Ency. ix (1817) ; Westwood, Mod. Class. Ins. ii, p. 427 (1840) ; Fieber, 

 Verh. Zool.-Bot. Gess. Wien, xvi, p. 497 (1866) :—Fidgorellm, Latr. Gen. iii, p. 163 

 (1807) ; Spinola, A. S. E. F. (1 ser.) viii, p. 133, 202 (1839) -.—Fulgorina, Burra., 

 Handb. Ent. ii (i) p. 102, 144 (1835) -.—Fulgorida, Stal, Hem. Afric. iv, p. 128 (1866). 



Two ocelli, rarely three or none, one on each gena ; third, when pre- 

 sent, placed on the apex of the frons : genee reflexed, very often separated 

 from the frons by a ridge : tegmina at the base with a tegula, which is 

 seldom wanting, hidden : anterior coxae inserted near the sides of the 

 body, very often elongate ; last pair, transverse, contiguous, extended to 

 the lateral margins of the body (Stdl). 



Subfamily Fulgorina, Stal. 



Fulgorides, Am. & Serv., Hist. Nat. Ins. Hem. p. 488 (1843). Fulgorida, Stal, 

 Hem. Afric. iv, p. 129 (1866), Stettin Ent. Zeit. xxxi, p. 255, 282 (1870) ; Fulgorina, 

 Stal, Ofvers. K. V.-A., Forh. p. 740 (1870). 



Anal area of wings reticulated ; the ridge separating the frons from 

 the gensD is continued in the sides of the clypeus (Stdl). 



Genus Fulgoea, Linnaeus, Stal. 



Fulgora, Stal, Hem. Afric. iv, p. 133 (1866) ; Hotinus, Am. & Serv., Hist. Nat. 

 Ins. Hem. p. 490 (1843) ; Walker, List Horn. B. M. ii, p. 264 (1851). 



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