1885.] B. T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian Rhynchota. 153 



of tlie shield : rostrum ferruginous, tip darker, extending nearly to the 

 tip of the abdomen : an excavation partly inclosing the eye on each side 

 lateral margins of pronotum and most of metanotum, black : abdomen 

 a little longer than the thorax, nearly elliptical, red, with a black band 

 across each segment above : legs black, furrowed, femora red, posterior 

 tibias spinose : tegmina not much longer than the wings, apex obtuse, 

 pale dingy yellow with very numerous brown marks, reticulated part, 

 yellowish-brown : wings brown with many almost colourless spots which 

 are partly confluent, posterior margin almost colourless, tip pale brown 

 {Walker). Body long 14| ; exp. teg. 42 millims, 

 Reported from India. 



Genus Phoronis, St§l. 



Stettin Ent. Zeit. xxir, p. 233 (1863). 



Head not protuberant but emitting from the base of the frons a 

 very long, very slender, mobile, reflexed process [which in dried speci- 

 mens is very easily detached] ; frons a little narrower above the middle 

 than beneath the middle, abruptly narrowed at the base, furnished with 

 two obtuse, parallel ridges (often obliterated), lateral margins slightly 

 sinuate beneath the middle ; vertex truncated at the base : thorax hard- 

 ly carinate in the middle, first pair of femora distinctly amplified above 

 at the apex : last pair of tibise 4-spinose, furnished above at the base 

 with a tubercle (Stdl), 



45. Phoronis nigro-maculata, Guerin. 



Aphcsna nigro-maculata, Guerin, Icon. Regne An. t. 90, f. 6 (1830-34) ; Voy. 

 Belanger Ind. Orient. Zool. p. 457 (1834) ; Spinola, A. S. E. F. (1 ser.) viii, p. 243 

 (1839); Walker, List. Horn. B. M. ii, p. 273 (1851). 



Fulgora (Aphcena) nigro-maculata, G. E-. Gray, Griffith's ed. An. King. Ins. ii, 

 p. 260 t. 90, f. 6 ; t. 138, f . 1 a-c. (1832). 



Aphana nigro-maculata, Westwood, Trans. Linn. Soo. xviii, p. 149 (1841). 



Phoronis nigro-maculata, Stal, Stettin Ent. Zeit. xxiv, p. 233 (1863). 



Head and thorax brown ; horn black, short, flexible ; tegmina brown 

 with some small scattered black spots, exterior margin with a broad 

 black border : wings with basal half silvery grey, spotted with black ; 

 other half, black, with the interior margin brownish black ; body silvery 

 grey, with transverse narrow bands of black {Gray). Head subferru- 

 ginous, brown ; frons with a cylindrical horn recurved backwards ; tho- 

 rax somewhat greenish brown : tegmina obscurely blue, apex finely 

 reticulated with black, punctured with black on the anterior margin 

 with five dots obliquely arranged at the base : wings blue, spotted with 

 black, posteriorly brown, black at the apex : abdomen black, streaked 



