1885.] EK. T. Atkinson—Notes on Indian Rhynchota. 145 
towards the base anda little orange in the middle and on the side of 
the anterior border: tip with a large black patch, adorned with small 
blue spots; posterior margin slightly infuscate and dise with 16—17 
small, nearly equal, black spots and four small white spots placed in the 
orange portion (Guérin). Long, 15: exp. teg. 37 millims. 
The Indian form (A. io, Walker) is thus described :— 
Body yellowish-brown; head and mesonotum punctured black, 
carinate ; rostrum brown, as long as the body ; metanotum, red ; abdo- 
men bright red; beneath, spotted black with a black stripe along each 
side and a brown posterior margin on each segment : legs black, femora 
and tibie flavo-annulate, posterior tibixe spinose : tegmina yellowish- 
brown with numerous black marks which are confluent and form a black 
spot at the tip of the hind border; this spot has a yellowish-white spot 
adjoining; wings luteous, red at the base and along the inner border, 
with about 12 black and 4 white spots, brown along the hind border, 
terminating in a very large black spot which has a blue dise (Walker). 
Body long, 165; exp. teg. 46 millims. 
Reported from China, Java, India: the Indian Museum possesses 
specimens from Sikkim and the Andamans. 
29. APHANA VARIEGATA, Guérin. 
Aphena variegata, Guérin, Voy. Bélanger Ind. Orien. Zool. p. 455 (1834) ; Icon. 
Régne Anim., t. 58, f. 3 (1830-34) ; Spin., A. S. H. F. viii, p. 247 (1839) ; Walker, List 
Hom. B. M. ii, p. 278 (1851). 
Penthicus variegatus, Blanchard, Hist. Nat. Ins. iii, p. 171, Hém. t. 12, f. 4 
(1840-41). 
Aphena basirufa, Walker, List Hom. B. M. ii, p. 278 (1851): J. L. S. Zool. i, 
p. 143 (1857). 
Aphana variegata, Am. & Serv., Hist. Nat. Ing. Hém. p. 497, t. 9, f. 1 (18438) ; 
Stal, Stettin Ent. Zeit, xxiv, p. 232 (1863). 
Head flat in front, with two slightly elevated ridges: pronotum 
transverse, anterior border lobed and a little advanced, carinate in the 
middle, with a hollow on each side behind the median lobe, and a little 
emarginate posteriorly: mesonotum triangular, sides almost equal, 
pointed behind, tricarinate in the middle, one ridge longitudinal, and 
two lateral, curved: metanotum and abdomen bright red, separated by a 
white, farinose, transverse band ; the head, pro-, and meso-notum brown, 
touching on deep olive-green. Tegmina brunneous, a little reddish at 
the base, more greenish at the tip with black patches and round black 
dots which increase in size towards the apex; two square yellowish 
patches at the middle third, one on the anterior, the other on the inte- 
rior margin: wings much broader, a little sinuated on the posterior 
margin ; the base up to one-third of their length bright red with three 
