146 E. T. Atkinson—Notes on Indian Rhynchota. [No. 3, 
black spots and an obscure patch ; middle third orange yellow grounded 
with red, above 2-3 small white dots and below a small black spot : the 
apex is black with more or less numerous or confluent small blue dots ; 
posterior margin from this black portion to the internal angle is broadly 
bordered brown. Body beneath concolorous with the thorax, feet more 
blackish (Guérin). Long, 20; exp. teg. 55 millims. 
Reported from Cochin-China, Philippines, Silhat: the Indian 
Museum possesses specimens from Sikkim. 
30. APHANA cAJA, Walker. 
Aphena caja, Walker, List Hom. B. M. ii, p. 278 (1851). 
Aphana caja, Stal, Stettin Ent. Zeit. xxiv, p. 235 (1863). 
Fuscous-ochraceous; thorax palely granulate towards the sides ; 
tegmina fawn-colour or palely olivaceous, clouded with black-fuscous 
and sprinkled with minute black-fuscous spots, further, behind the 
middle, adorned with a pallid subquadrate spot at the costal and com- 
missural margins: wings croceous, sanguineous at the base, a small 
oblique, basal streak and 5-7 spots in anal half, black-fuscous ; 3-4 
small white discoidal spots in the anterior area; posterior limbus nar- 
rowly fuscous; apical part black-fuscous, sprinkled with glaucous- 
mouldy spots; abdomen sanguineous, dorsum with a double row of 
black spots, beneath fuscous-sanguineous: feet spotted olivaceous. 
9, long 21; exp. teg. 62 millims. 
Nearly allied to A. variegata, Guérin, but larger, spots on the teg- 
mina larger, wings sanguineous only at the base, posterior fuscous hmbus 
narrower and especially with the vertex shorter, nearly thrice broader 
than long, more obtusely rounded, transverse basal keel straight, ante- 
rior margin less deeply sinuate in the middle: frons subequal at the 
base and the apex, not distinctly narrower at the base, anterior produced 
part of thorax more obtusely rounded. Frons somewhat longer than 
broad, lateral margins shghtly broadly bisinuate, with two obtuse 
ridges diverging upwards and with an obsolete longitudinal ridge to- 
wards the base, the median area at the base very broadly rounded : 
thorax marked before the middle with two obsolete pallid spots 
(Stal). 
Reported from Silhat. 
31. APHANA DIMIpIATA, Hope. 
Lystra dimidiata, Hope, Trans. Linn. Soc. xix, p. 138, t. 12, f.4 (1845) ; 
Walker, List Hom, B. M. ii, p. 286 (1851). 
Aphana dimidiata, Stal, Stettin Ent. Zeit. xxiv, p. 232 (1868). 
