1885.] E. T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian Rhyncliota. 131 



Cephalic process and head piceous, covered with a whito-farinoso 

 substance, as long as half the body, gradually attenuated from the base, 

 its dorsum tricarinate and apex turning upwards and ending in a knob 

 or ball sub-rounded, sub-pellucid, and broadly testaceous : thorax luteous, 

 pronotum with two minute discoidal, black, dots ; mesonotum with four 

 basal and two other oblique lateral spots : abdomen beneath fulvous, 

 above obscure, dotted with a white farinose substance, apices of seg- 

 ments luteous, anus black : basal half of tegmina somewhat whitish with 

 numerous, irregular fuscous spots ; apical half fuscous with numerous 

 whitish circular spots, varying very much in size and most of them 

 ocellated : wings somewhat whitish, apex broadly fuscous : feet and 

 rostrum black ; clypeus luteous (Westw.). Body with cephalic process 

 long 33J ; exp. teg. 76 millims. 



Reported from Assam : the Indian Museum possesses specimens 

 from Sikkim, Khasiya Hills, Sibsagar, Shillong. In fresh specimens the 

 whole of the tegmina and abdomen above and below is thickly covered 

 with a white powdery substance : the abdomen, too, is of a rich red colour, 

 which fades to fulvous, and the wings at the base are a light blue, which 

 fades to grey. The Indian Museum possesses a remarkable local variety 

 from Mussooree in which the entire cephalic process is dull red and the 

 ground of the tegmina is much lighter. 



8. FULGORA PONDEROSA, Stal. 

 Hotinus ponderosus, Stal, Ofvers. K. V.-A. Forh. xi, p. 244 (1854) : Walker, 

 Cat. Horn. B. M. Suppt. p. 315 (1858). 



Fidgora ponderosa, Butler, P. Z. S. p. 98 (1874). 



Cephalic process half the length of the body, cylindrical, black- 

 piceous, ascending at the apex, which is testaceous : thorax and scutel- 

 lum yellow-testaceous, the latter with four basal spots and two behind 

 the middle, black : tegmina sordid white, sparingly covered with a white 

 farinose substance ; a median band spotted with white ; and two spots 

 at the anterior margin before the middle and one at the sutural mar- 

 gin, black ; several fuscous spots on the disc and apex, which is spotted 

 white : wings sordidly whitish subhyaline, weakly fuscous at the apex : 

 abdomen yellow testaceous, segments margined testaceous : feet and 

 rostrum black ; posterior femora yellow-testaceous beyond the middle 

 (Stal). Body long, 38 : exp. teg. 88 millims. 



Reported from India. There is little doubt that this is merely a 

 variety of F. clavata, Westw. 



Sec. 3. Species with red and whitish wings. 



9. FULGORA OCULATA, Wcstwood. 



Fulgora oculata, Westwoocl, Trans. Linn. Soc. xviii, p. 142, t. 12, f. 5 (1841) ; 

 Butler, P. Z. S. p. 99 (1874). 



