138 E. T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian Rliynchota. [No. 3, 



Sec. D. Species with scarlet wings. 

 19. FuLOORA CARDiNALis, Butler. 

 Fulgora cardinalis, Butler, A. M. N. H. (4 ser.) xiv, p. 131 (1874). 



Tegmina yellowish-olivaceous, veins and costal area bright green ; 

 entire surface covered with black-edged orange spots, arranged as in 

 F. virescens, West., but larger and better defined ; outer margin brown : 

 wings carmine ; outer margin brown, broadest at the apex : cephalic 

 process, head and prothorax above, and the entire pectus green, spotted 

 with black ; meso- and meta- thorax testaceous, black- spotted ; abdomen 

 above reddish, below testaceous, varied with emerald-green : legs eme- 

 rald-green (Butler). Body including cephalic process, 25 ; cephalic 

 process 83- : exp. teg. 53 millims. 



Reported from Nepal, Sikkim. Allied to F. pyrrJiochlora, Walker, 

 and F. virescens, Westw., but differing. structurally from both in its short 

 abruptly compressed cephalic process. The Indian Museum possesses 

 specimens from Sikkim. 



To this section also belong the following species : — 



F. coccinea, Walker, List Horn. B. M. Snppt. p. 42 (1858). Ceylon. 

 F. decorata, Westwood, Trans. Linn. Soc. xviii, p. 141, t. 12, f. 4, (1841). Java. 

 F. guttifera, Stal, Ofvers. K. V.-A., Forli. p. 448 (1859). Ceylon, Shanghai ? 

 J^. pyrrhochlora, Walker, Butler, P. Z. S. p. 101 (1874). Borneo. 



Sec. E. Species with pale greenish wings (suhhy aline). 

 20. Fulgora virescens, Westwood. 



Fulgora (Pyrops) virescens, Westwood, A. M. N". H. ix, p. 119 (1842). 

 Fulgora (HotinaJ virescens, Westwood, Cab. Or. Ent, p. 8, t. 3, f. 5 (1848). 

 Pyrops virescens. Walker, Cat. Horn. B. M. ii, p. 209 (1851). 

 Hotinus semiannulus, Walker, 1. c. Suppt. p. 42 (1858). 

 Fulgora virescens, Butler, P. Z. S, p. 102 (1874). 



Cephalic process short, conical, scarcely bent upwards : entirely 

 pale green with a minute black spot on each side of the prothorax and 

 scutellum ; the tegmina broad with the anterior margin much arched, 

 green with numerous small rounded orange- coloured spots, outwardly 

 edged with black ; wings very pale green and semitransparent (Westw.). 

 Body long with the cephalic process 19 — 20 : exp. teg. 56 — 58 millims. 



Reported from India, Silhat ; the Indian Museum possesses a speci- 

 men from Silhat. 



To this section also belongs the following species : — 



F. cultellata. Walker, J. L. S. Zool. i, p. 143 (1857). Borneo. 



