HOMOPTERA 



Rustia de/itivitta. Distant, Mon. Orient. Cicad. p. 125, t. 8, f. 14a, b (18921; 

 Fauna Brit. Ind, Rhynch. Vol. 3, p. 125, f. 55 (1906). 

 var. amussitata. 



Tibicin amussitatus, Distant, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6), Vol. I, p. 5731 1S88); 

 Mon. Orient. Cicad. p. 126, t. 12, f. i6a,b (1892). 

 R. tigrina. India, Burma. 



Tibicen tigrinus, Distant, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6), Vol. 2, p. 325 (1888). 

 Rustia tigrina. Distant, Mon. Orient. Cicad. p. 126. t. 14, f. 19^,6 (18921 ; 

 Fauna Brit. Ind. Rhynch. Vol. 3, p. 125 (1906). 



56. Genus TERPNOSIA, Distant 



Terpnosia. Distant, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6), Vol. 9, p. 325 (note) (1892); Mon. Orient. Cicad. 

 p. i38 (1892); Fauna Brit. Ind. Rhynch. Vol. 3, p. 126 (1906). 



Characters. — Head about as long as breadth between eyes, deflected anteriorly, front not 

 prominent; pronotum distinctly shorter than mesonotum, its lateral margins sinuate, with the posterior 

 angles moderately lobalety produced ; abdomen in male longer than space between apex of head and 

 base of cruciform elevation ; tympanal coverings both narrower and shorter than tympanal cavities ; 

 opercula in male short and transverse, usually not or scarcely extending beyond base of abdomen 1); 

 anterior femora spined beneath; tegmina and wings hyaline, the first usually more or less maculate, 

 with eight apical areas, and the basal cell longer than broad ; wings with six ap'cal areas. 



Type. — T. psecas, Walker. 



Geographical distribution of species. — Oriental and Malayan Regions. China & Japan. 



A. Opercula in male not extending beyond base of abdomen. 



1. T. psecas. — PI. I, Figs. 6a, b. India, Ceylon, Java. 



Dundubia psecas, Walker, List Horn. Vol. 1, p. 65 (i85o). 



Pomponia elegans, Kirby, Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. Vol. 24, p. i3o (1891). 



Terpnosia psecas, Distant, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6), Vol. 9, p. 325 (1892); 



Mon. Orient. CicaJ. p. 140 (1892); Fauna Brit. Ind. Rhynch. Vol. 3, 



p. 126, f. 56 (1906). 



2. T . jenkinsi. Bengal. 



Terpnosia jenkinsi, Distant, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), Vol. g, p. i83 (1912). 



3. T. confusa. India. 



Terpnosia confusia, Distant, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 17), Vol. i5, p. 3o6 



(igo5); Faun. Brit. Ind. Rhynch. Vol. 3, p. 128 (1906). 

 Terpnosia psecas. Distant. Mon. Orient. Cicad. t. 7, f. 2ia,b (1892). 



4. T. mawi. China. 



Terpnosia mawi, Distant, The Entomologist (1909), p. 208 



5. T. stipatq. Ceylon. 



Dundubia stipata, Walker, List Horn. Vol. 1. p. 5i (i85o). 

 Dundubia clonia, Walker, loc. cit. p. 66 (i85o). 

 Dundubia chlonia, Stal, Oefv. Vet.-Akad. Forh. (1862), p. 480. 

 Terpnosia stipata, Distant, Mon. Orient. Cicad. p. i3g, t. i5, f. 6a,b 11892) ; 

 Fauna Brit. Ind. Rhynch. Vol. 3, p. 127 (1906). 



6. T. ransonneti. Ceylon. 



Pomponia Ransonnelti, Distant, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6), Vol. 1, p. 372 



(1888) ; Mon. Orient. Cicad. p. 72, t. 7, f. 20a, b (1890). 

 Pomponia greeni, Kirby, Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond. Zool. Vol, 24, p. 129, t. 5, 



f. 11 (1891). 

 Terpnosia ransonetti. Distant, Fauna Brit. Ind. Rhynch. Vol. 3, p. 128 



(1906). 



1) Except in T.maculipes, Walker. T. ganefta. Distant. 



